UFRJ Science Park, Brazil
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab transforms the park into a real-world innovation platform where startups, researchers and companies test and validate solutions in real conditions. By accelerating technological maturity and connecting university, industry and territory, it turns experimentation into impact, learning and ecosystem transformation.
Purpose of the solution
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab exists to turn innovation into something you can *touch, test and trust*. We transform one of Brazil's largest innovation ecosystems into a living territory where startups, companies, UFRJ researchers and the community validate technologies in real conditions, accelerating solutions that improve sustainability, mobility and digital life, faster.
Impact
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab creates impact by turning a science park into a living platform for innovation. It accelerates real-world validation, connects university, industry and territory, and transforms experimentation into practical solutions, institutional learning and a more collaborative, future-oriented innovation ecosystem.
What's innovative about it?
Innovation lies in transforming the science park into a structured, replicable and continuous real-world experimentation platform. Building on its role as a connector between academia and the productive sector, UFRJ Science Park turned experimentation into a strategic programme that accelerates technology maturity and creates lasting value through collaboration, validation and learning.
Who are the main users?
The Living Lab primarily serves startups, university laboratories and technology-based companies developing solutions, while also engaging the Science Park's technical and operational teams, resident organisations and ecosystem partners. Together, these actors shape, test and refine innovations in real conditions, turning the territory into a shared space for collaboration, validation and transformation.
Who runs it?
The Living Lab is led by UFRJ Science Park as a strategic institutional programme, supported by public funding. Specialised consultancy contributed to the project's structuring and the monitoring of its first results, helping lay the cornerstone for its development. This governance model combines institutional leadership, technical consistency and public support to drive lasting innovation.
UFRJ Science Park, Brazil
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab transforms the park into a real-world innovation platform where startups, researchers and companies test and validate solutions in real conditions. By accelerating technological maturity and connecting university, industry and territory, it turns experimentation into impact, learning and ecosystem transformation.
Purpose of the solution
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab exists to turn innovation into something you can *touch, test and trust*. We transform one of Brazil's largest innovation ecosystems into a living territory where startups, companies, UFRJ researchers and the community validate technologies in real conditions, accelerating solutions that improve sustainability, mobility and digital life, faster.
Impact
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab creates impact by turning a science park into a living platform for innovation. It accelerates real-world validation, connects university, industry and territory, and transforms experimentation into practical solutions, institutional learning and a more collaborative, future-oriented innovation ecosystem.
What's innovative about it?
Innovation lies in transforming the science park into a structured, replicable and continuous real-world experimentation platform. Building on its role as a connector between academia and the productive sector, UFRJ Science Park turned experimentation into a strategic programme that accelerates technology maturity and creates lasting value through collaboration, validation and learning.
Who are the main users?
The Living Lab primarily serves startups, university laboratories and technology-based companies developing solutions, while also engaging the Science Park's technical and operational teams, resident organisations and ecosystem partners. Together, these actors shape, test and refine innovations in real conditions, turning the territory into a shared space for collaboration, validation and transformation.
Who runs it?
The Living Lab is led by UFRJ Science Park as a strategic institutional programme, supported by public funding. Specialised consultancy contributed to the project's structuring and the monitoring of its first results, helping lay the cornerstone for its development. This governance model combines institutional leadership, technical consistency and public support to drive lasting innovation.
UFRJ Science Park, Brazil
"UFRJ Science Park Living Lab"
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab transforms the park into a real-world innovation platform where startups, researchers and companies test and validate solutions in real conditions. By accelerating technological maturity and connecting university, industry and territory, it turns experimentation into impact, learning and ecosystem transformation.
Purpose of the solution
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab exists to turn innovation into something you can *touch, test and trust*. We transform one of Brazil's largest innovation ecosystems into a living territory where startups, companies, UFRJ researchers and the community validate technologies in real conditions, accelerating solutions that improve sustainability, mobility and digital life, faster.
Impact
The UFRJ Science Park Living Lab creates impact by turning a science park into a living platform for innovation. It accelerates real-world validation, connects university, industry and territory, and transforms experimentation into practical solutions, institutional learning and a more collaborative, future-oriented innovation ecosystem.
What's innovative about it?
Innovation lies in transforming the science park into a structured, replicable and continuous real-world experimentation platform. Building on its role as a connector between academia and the productive sector, UFRJ Science Park turned experimentation into a strategic programme that accelerates technology maturity and creates lasting value through collaboration, validation and learning.
Who are the main users?
The Living Lab primarily serves startups, university laboratories and technology-based companies developing solutions, while also engaging the Science Park's technical and operational teams, resident organisations and ecosystem partners. Together, these actors shape, test and refine innovations in real conditions, turning the territory into a shared space for collaboration, validation and transformation.
Who runs it?
The Living Lab is led by UFRJ Science Park as a strategic institutional programme, supported by public funding. Specialised consultancy contributed to the project's structuring and the monitoring of its first results, helping lay the cornerstone for its development. This governance model combines institutional leadership, technical consistency and public support to drive lasting innovation.