Given we’ve been travelling the globe extolling the virtues of Living Labs (see News section), it made sense to pen this article around them. It should go some way in shedding light on why we settled on this particular methodology. A Living Lab is a research and innovation concept and whilst there are many descriptions in the literature, they do agree on a number of features. Most describe them as a tool to combine research and innovation processes in a user-centered, co-crea