Caps 2014 living lab session presentation Artur Serra

The Lab,As we may live in 2020

Artur Serra i2cat

CAPSJuly 1-2 2014 Brussels

I. We are already connected.

Now what?

Soon everything will be connected.Then what?

The Spanish Paradox

100% of young generation is already connected to Internet....

and 50% of them are unemployed!!

A new digital infrastructure is connecting old economic ,social , politicalstructures and superestructures

II. The LabAs we may live in 2050.

“The Lab”: a new meme.

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New digital infrastructures allownew economic ,social , political structures.

“The Lab” hypothesis

Is it possible the opening of the innovation system to every citizen?

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Living labs/Citizen labs: Towards

Universal Innovation Systems.

Is it possible to create a universal innovation system for every citizen,

upon Internet.

What a Universal System is about?. See some European examples.

European universal healtcare systems

Covering 100% of population

IntermediateClinics

Primary Health Centers

SpeciallizedHospitals

The current Innovation Systems

Universities, company labs, national labs. ….

An elitist and minoritysystem. ?

The European movement of Living Labs

Training leaders of citizen labs

A) A new professional profile:

– The local innovation agents. Leader in social digital innovation

B) Providing theoretical basics to social innovation

– Synthetic social sciences.

– Technoanthropology

The Lab motto.

ISOC (1991). “Internet for everyone”

The Lab (2020) “Innovation is for everyone”

Thanks a lot!

artur.serra@i2cat.net