One of the important lessons we’ve learned throughout this programme is that a strong partner ecosystem is the key for successful co-innovation. What also stands out for me is how corporations and startups can win together by leveraging each other’s strengths. That’s especially true where I’m located in Songdo, South Korea.
Songdo is not just one of the new cities emerging in Korea. To our team at the Cisco Innovation Center Korea, it’s the very place where we’re creating a culture of co-innovation by partnering with our ecosystem partners and the local government through the Living Labs Initiative.
You can find the detailed story of our first living lab called IoT Cube in this article on The Network.
At the Cisco Innovation Center Korea, we’ve been partnering with our solution partners, startups, developers, and universities to co-develop innovative solutions. Again, I’m excited that we’re building a strong partner ecosystem that shares a spirit of innovation that will play a key role in powering co-innovation powered through our living labs. It will also enable our partners to be ready for increasingly shorter innovation cycles and time-to-market.
And equally important, the whole idea behind the living lab is that we’d like to foster a user-driven open innovation based on a business, citizen, and government partnership. The idea is to facilitate broad collective action, letting users take an active part in the innovation process.