Editorial: Insights (November 2017)

Abstract

[...]Bastiaan Baccarne, Sara Logghe, Dimitri Schuurman, and Lieven De Marez from iMinds - MICT - Ghent University in Belgium, study the urban living lab concept as an inter-organizational design and multi-stakeholder innovation development process to govern the quintuple helix model for innovation. Using a multidimensional case study design that focuses on the concepts of innovation democracy, mode 3 knowledge production, the innovation ecosystem as a system of societal subsystems, and socio-ecological transition, they provide a more profound understanding of such innovation processes to tackle socio-ecological challenges by means of public-private interactions driven by eco-entrepreneurship. [...]this issue includes a summary of a recent TIM Lecture presented by Dave Thomas, Chief Scientist/CSO of First Derivatives FD Labs, who focused on the disruptive aspects of "huge persistent memory" in terms of the technology shift it represents, the impact it has on how developers write software programs, and the corresponding business opportunities it brings about.