About DeLabs
- Learning Labs for Distributed Economies
The aim of DeLabs
- Show new strategic possibilities for small and medium sized enterprises which begin from the core ideas of DeLabs: innovation, entrepreneurial behavior and sustainable development.
- Visualize new opportunities for regional sustainable development based on the DeLabs concept.
- Give inspiration and create new trends for alternative industrial development.
- Combine talent, creativity and knowledge through an active partnership with different actors.
DeLabs brochure "Developing and managing regional
value-networks".
What is Distributed Economies - DE?
Distributed Economies is a strategy to combine sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurial behavior, with a focus on attractive solutions for small and medium sized enterprises.
The general characteristics of DE are:
- To draw from regional/local values, strengths and possibilities.
- To make sustainable development as an integrated part of innovations.
- To realise large-scale benefits through better utilization of SME networks.
- To develop unique high-quality products based on knowledge, design, quality and environment.
- To make the technical development learn from and co-operate with nature.
- To pay increased attention to qualitative aspects of living and consumption patterns.
- To focus on small-scale and flexibly distributed technology systems, rather than centralized bulk-systems.
- To identify new producer/customer relations, i.e. show how SMEs can be local and global actors at the same time.
- To better utilize and develop local resources and values (e.g. natural resources, finances, human capital, knowledge, technology, and so on).
What is meant by Learning Labs?
- A creative environment to identify, test and develop new attractive solutions.
- A new framework for better co-operation between universities and commercial enterprises, with a focus on learning.
- A catalyst to quickly turn knowledge and research into new business ideas.
- A search engine for new solutions.
- A communication platform for co-operation among different actors, depending on needs.
Interested in what
we are doing?
Do you have ideas along the same lines?
We are seeking co-operation in different regions.
Contact us for more information delabs@delabs.org
Two Industrial Symbiosis Related Events organised in 2005.
You can find further information and presentation material from two Industrial Symbiosis events organised in 2005 here.