{"id":2563,"date":"2016-11-03T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:51:57","slug":"innovation-labs-10-defining-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/innovation-labs-10-defining-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Labs: 10 Defining Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A closer look at what characterizes an innovation lab can help practitioners, funders, and scholars better understand what labs\u2019 potential and limits might be, as well as better assess the social impact that comes out of the them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational corporations, labs are becoming an almost default framework for collaborative innovation. They have resonance in and across myriad fields: London\u2019s pioneering&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/financeinnovationlab.org\/\">Finance Innovation Lab<\/a>, for example, aims to create a system of finance that benefits \u201cpeople and planet\u201d; the American&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmi.org\/elab\">eLab<\/a>&nbsp;is searching for the future of the electricity sector; and the Danish&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mind-lab.dk\/en\/\">MindLab<\/a>&nbsp;helps the government co-create better social services and solutions. Hundreds of other, similar initiatives around the world are taking on a range of grand challenges (or, if you prefer, wicked problems) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/four_social_change_results_that_innovation_labs_deliver\">driving collective social impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet for all their seeming popularity, labs face a basic problem that closely parallels the predicament of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/time_to_define_what_a_hub_really_is\">hub organizations<\/a>: There is little clarity on their core features, and few shared definitions exist that would make sense amid their diverse themes and settings. Most advocates would probably agree that a typical innovation lab spans organizational, sectoral, and geographical boundaries, and strives to engage a wide range of stakeholders in problem-solving activities. But a more-nuanced and analytical approach is badly needed to help guide future lab leaders and participants, as well as to inspire funder trust in labs\u2019 likely impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on observations previously made in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/a_lab_of_labs\"><em>SSIR<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and elsewhere, we contribute to the task of clarifying the logic of modern innovation labs by distilling 10 defining features. Our account is based on original, qualitative interviews with the founders and leaders of a dozen labs, as well as an analysis of the online self-descriptions of 30 labs around the world. We believe summing up the self-definitions of innovation labs in this way makes it easier to distinguish them from important precursors, such as Living Labs, which typically enable corporations to benefit from user innovation. And while these 10 characteristics are far from unique to innovation labs, their combination can help us understand labs as a distinctive phenomenon. Unpacking these dimensions can provide practitioners, funders, and scholars with a more-nuanced snapshot of what innovation labs are about, how to assess them, and what their limits might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Imposed but open-ended innovation themes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs seek contributions from a variety of sources, but they impose a broad innovation topic or theme in a top-down manner. This is because they typically serve as the instruments of larger organizations or networks\u2014including national innovation agencies such as Nesta in the UK or Sitra, a public fund aiming to \u201cbuild a successful Finland for tomorrow\u201d \u2014that have their own particular innovation agendas. That said, labs intentionally leave room for the further specification of the focal proble. For example,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/quartierstuff.lu\/eng\">Quartier Stuff<\/a>&nbsp;used \u201cshape your district\u201d as a call to kick off its community innovation lab, and defined focus challenges with lab participants only after collecting more than 1,250 suggestions on how to co-create the district from local inhabitants, workers, and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Preoccupation with large innovation challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labs aim to create breakthrough, out-of-the-box solutions to major challenges of the present and the future, \u201caddressing problems too big for any one organization to solve on its own\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uilabs.org\/#about\">UI LABS<\/a>), such as devising alternative business models (<a href=\"http:\/\/financeinnovationlab.org\/\">Finance Innovation Lab<\/a>), or working toward solving large health, safety, and development problems (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilabsoutheastasia.org\/overview\/\">InSTEDD iLabs<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Expectation of breakthrough solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs pursue disruptive innovations and are called to \u201cimagine the impossible\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowesinnovationlabs.com\/\">LIL<\/a>). Rather than settling for incremental improvements, their mission is typically to deliver \u201cbreakthrough solutions\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/labcraft.co\/incompass-human-centered-innovation-lab-at-ide-formerly-hcd-i-lab\/\">inCompass<\/a>) and create places \u201cwhere today\u2019s moonshots become tomorrow\u2019s breakthroughs\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FyxdmuyMFmu%3Fcn%3DbWVudGlvbg%253D%253D&amp;t=1&amp;cn=bWVudGlvbg%3D%3D&amp;sig=dd9c318091e4c51e921bcbeb69a5dd18be9ea4bc&amp;iid=407218a347fe43f38fd6429f99d8b87a&amp;uid=2890810157&amp;nid=4+1268\">MaRS Solutions Lab<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Heterogeneous participants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs engage a wide range of participants, cutting across the boundaries of industries, professions, and cultures; they bring together \u201can unusual bunch\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/labcd.mx\/labforthecity\/\">Laboratorio Para la Ciudad<\/a>) of people that would otherwise not work together. Labs use phrases such as \u201ca diverse community\u201d (Finance Innovation Lab), \u201cmultidisciplinary dialogue, cross-sector partnerships\u201d (InSTEDD iLabs), or \u201cpartnership with uncommon partners\u201d (LIL) to describe their convenings, and expect this diversity to fuel collective creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Targeted collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While labs\u2019 typically impose a problem focus, they draw on collaborative technologies and dynamics to generate solutions. iLabs, for example, claims that it is based on \u201ccross-sector collaborations that bring people together,\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmi.org\/elab_doing\">eLab<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cfocuses on collaborative innovation.\u201d This approach presumes that all participants, regardless of institutional power differences, should treat one another as equal partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. Long-term perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs are often framed as vehicles for \u201cdiscovering the future.\u201d For instance, Quartier Stuff aims to \u201cinnovate &#8230; to ensure long-term social cohesion and high quality of life.\u201d Such freedom from immediate results creates space for blue-sky thinking and activities such as horizon scanning, foresight scenarios, strategic planning, and emergent signal analysis (<a href=\"http:\/\/slab.ocadu.ca\/about\">sLab<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7. Rich innovation toolbox<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation labs apply a wide range of methods and tools to stimulate creativity, guide discussions, moderate collaboration, as well as develop, prototype, and experiment solutions. Their self-proclaimed role is to \u201cbring together the brains, methodology, and diverse tools for &#8230; innovation\u201d (inCompass). Labs\u2019 toolboxes include design thinking and open innovation (Quartier Stuff), randomized controlled trials (Nesta\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationgrowthlab.org\/\">Innovation Growth Lab<\/a>), crowdsourcing (Finance Innovation Lab), and human-centric design (inCompass)\u2014often in combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8. Applied orientation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labs intend to develop tangible solutions, not just ideas, and therefore seek to remain active throughout the whole innovation process, going beyond the ideation stage where possible. In their own words, labs are \u201capplication-oriented\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationlab.de\/en\/\">InnovationLab<\/a>) and \u201cdedicated to the development of real solutions\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicinnovationlab.la\/\">Civic Innovation Lab<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. Focus on experimentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labs like to stress that they \u201ccreate space for experimentation through facilitated processes\u201d (MaRS Solutions Lab). They encourage participants to \u201ctry things out on a small scale, take risks, prototype, test and accept failure as part of progress\u201d (Quartier Stuff), re-inventing their own methods and approaches as they go along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. Systemic thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the words of a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thecommslab.com\/\">Comms Lab<\/a>&nbsp;co-founder, a lab is \u201ca space &#8230; for people who represent a system and &#8230; who are influenced by a system to come together \u2026 and co-create.\u201d Indeed, labs claim that they are \u201crethinking the system\u201d (Finance Innovation Lab) or working to \u201ctransform entire industries\u201d (UI LABS). It is impossible to conceive of today\u2019s innovation labs separately from the discourse on systemic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent academic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2556692\">working paper<\/a>, we condense the above into this definition: An innovation lab is a semi-autonomous organization that engages diverse participants\u2014on a long-term basis\u2014in open collaboration for the purpose of creating, elaborating, and prototyping radical solutions to pre-identified systemic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope additional experience and research by practitioners, funders, and scholars will test and refine this definition so that we can better understand and assess the impact of future innovation lab projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read more stories by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/bios\/ioanna_lykourentzou\">Ioanna Lykourentzou<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/bios\/tuukka_toivonen\">Tuukka Toivonen<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/bios\/lidia_gryszkiewicz\">Lidia Gryszkiewicz<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at what characterizes an innovation lab can help practitioners, funders, and scholars better understand what labs\u2019 potential and limits might be, as well as better assess the social impact that comes out of the them. 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