Living Labs, Spaces for Open Innovation and Technology Transfer. An Alternative to the Solution of Social Problems in Paraguay

Antonieta Rojas De Arias; Sergio Duarte Masi; Diego Dorigo; Francisco Arias Rojas; María Celeste Vega; Miriam Rolon

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Living Labs, Spaces for Open Innovation and Technology Transfer. An Alternative to the Solution of Social Problems in Paraguay

Antonieta Rojas De Arias, Sergio Duarte Masi, Diego Dorigo, Francisco Arias Rojas, María Celeste Vega, Miriam Rolon

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Living Labs model concentrate its effort to support actors, providing a neutral space in which stakeholders could know and co-develop innovations in real-world contexts and proposes five basic principles for the operations of the aforementioned living labs: courage, openness, realism, influence and sustainability. The objective of this paper is to propose and test a Living Lab and project management model from the actual stakeholders, following the perspective of the Stakeholder Theory and the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). This perspective places the Research - Action model on the basis of the SSM model as an appropriate vehicle for the openness towards worldviews, problems and conflicts solving by the organizations, especially when it involves the formulation of possible cultural changes (structural, process, attitudinal) and "actions for improvement" are established. Therefore, we present the case of the Development Center for Scientific Research which brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and the project "Participatory approach with ethnic focus for Community Development of the Maskoy Diez Leguas ethnicity in the Central Chaco of Paraguay".

Published in	Social Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ss.20140303.12
Page(s)	74-79
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Open Innovation, Technology Transfer, Education, Indigenous Communities, Vector Borne Diseases, Living Labs

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Antonieta Rojas De Arias

Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Pa′i Perez 265 e/ Mcal. Estigarribia, Asunción, Paraguay
Sergio Duarte Masi

Universidad Autónoma de Asunción (UAA). Jejuí N 667, Asunción, Paraguay
Diego Dorigo

Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Pa′i Perez 265 e/ Mcal. Estigarribia, Asunción, Paraguay
Francisco Arias Rojas

Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Pa′i Perez 265 e/ Mcal. Estigarribia, Asunción, Paraguay
María Celeste Vega

Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Pa′i Perez 265 e/ Mcal. Estigarribia, Asunción, Paraguay
Miriam Rolon

Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Pa′i Perez 265 e/ Mcal. Estigarribia, Asunción, Paraguay

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