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Lessons Learned by the Business Case of LENS Living Lab
admin | 22.05.2009 21:20
Author: Brane Semolic
Paper: semolic.pdf
High Performance Manufacturing Living Laboratory is a real-life research and operational laboratory with the focus on R&D of a new innovative high performance design and manufacturing technologies (HPM) and supporting systems development, as well it operational use.
The most important factors to establish and sustain research within virtual collaboration are presence of:
- Visible and understandable business models and governance structure,
- Open virtual research groups – virtual research communities related to the domains which are relevant to the manufacturing industry. These communities need to be mixed and open for all researchers, developers, experts and advance users from the manufacturing companies, vendors etc. – which has interest to collaborate in specific research domain,
- Solid and user friendly e-infrastructure,
- Sustainable leadership of coordinators, professional support and
- Proper attitude to the intellectual property, rights and trust.
The main components of the Virtual Collaborative Networks (CVN) governance are:
- Governance of open virtual research groups (OVGs),
- Collaborative joint venture programs,
- Collaborative joint venture projects,
- Governance of regional clusters,
- Governance of e-collaboration platforms.
A representation matrix of distributed governance and collaboration:
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The presentation provides a general overview of collaboration among stakeholders in a virtual organization. The contribution’s benefit with respect to the goals of the workshop would be improved by providing one or two concrete examples Living Lab co-creation, which could be used to illustrate the mentioned factors to establish and sustain research within virtual collaboration.