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Record W6949781913 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.15729481

Towards a Living Labs research agenda

2025· article· en· W6949781913 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueGhent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Canadian institutionsAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiving labTerminologySustainable livingLiving systemsStakeholderProcess (computing)Action (physics)Harmonization

Abstract

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This paper proposes a research agenda for Living Labs as after 20 years of Living Lab-practice, theory building is not up to par with the steady growth and expansion of practice in terms of topics, sectors and sheer number of practitioners and initiatives. By means of a literature review, a workshop with the Living Lab research community (N=60) and a self-assessment of Living Labs on key topics (N=70) we were able to identify the following main action points to be tackled by future Living Lab research: 1. Linking the different levels of Living Labs to existing theories and literature streams; 2. Approaches to increase impact, value creation & scaling of Living Labs; 3. Harmonization & differentiation of Living Labs; 4. Long(er)-term user & stakeholder involvement; 5. Inclusive involvement. Especially in terms of impact, there is a big demand from practitioners’ perspective which could be addressed by first emphasizing the harmonisation process of the different Living Labs elements and terminology and subsequently theorising and conceptualising the current diversity in terms of themes and topics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.100
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.054
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.900
Threshold uncertainty score0.528

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1000.054
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0070.006
Science and technology studies0.0100.021
Scholarly communication0.0280.054
Open science0.0070.024
Research integrity0.0120.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.283
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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