In 2016 the city of Turin, Italy, launched the Torino Living Lab initiative. By using the urban Living Lab approach, with firms, public bodies, universities, and communities collaborating to co-create innovation, Turin aims to encourage, attract, and foster a growing and inclusive innovation environment. This article describes the efforts that Turin has made to design the initiative and presents a structured methodology to assess its results. The expectations and objectives of the initiative’s utilizers and the characteristics, impressions, habits, and behaviors of the citizens were collected before the initiative through a series of semi-structured interviews and a survey. By comparing the obtained results with similar post-mortem measurements, it is possible to assess the success of the initiative and evaluate its impacts. Finally, this study present interesting policy takeaways for cities wanting to implement urban Living Labs and identify best practices for their design, implementation, and management.

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城市生活实验室计划回顾

2016 年，意大利都灵市发起了都灵生活实验室计划。通过使用城市生活实验室的方法，与公司、公共机构、大学和社区合作共同创造创新，都灵旨在鼓励、吸引和培育不断发展的包容性创新环境。本文介绍了都灵为设计该计划所做的努力，并提出了一种结构化的方法来评估其结果。倡议实施前通过一系列半结构化访谈和调查收集倡议实施者的期望和目标以及公民的特征、印象、习惯和行为。通过将获得的结果与类似的事后测量进行比较，可以评估计划的成功并评估其影响。最后，