A Study About The Mechanism Of Enterprise Cooperative Innovation Based On "living Lab" Approach

With the rapid development of information and communication technology,enterprises’ original closed structure was completely broken. The traditional innovationmodel can not meet the current requirement, and Living Lab precisely appears in thiscontext. Living Lab is a new innovation model, that characterized by co-innovation, openinnovation and user-driven innovation. Living Lab has been applied in Europe on a largescale. Currently, Living Lab is still in its infancy in China, and did not form a completetheoretical system. There are no systematic studys of its innovative mechanisms. This paperaims to fill this research blank. This paper systematically comb the Living Lab concept,objectives, principles, construction elements, organizational models and theoretical systemfunction theory. From the the perspective of cooperation motivation of each actor, effectrelationship between each actor, the value net and the knowledge flows,this study analyzedthe innovation mechanism in a Living Lab system. In addition, this paper selects sixEuropean Living Lab innovation projects as cases and analysis them from a comparativeperspective about their participants, value flows, the level of collaboration, value creation,development potential and so on. Basis on these studies, this paper constructs a dynamicmodel of cooperative innovation based on Living Lab approach in order to guideenterprises’innovation activities.