Living Lab Salud Andalusia (LLSA) is an open innovation network comprising the Administration, universities, ITC corporations and end users (citizens, patients and healthcare professionals). It consists of environments, platforms and resources for developing innovative technologies, services and initiatives in the health sphere, with particular emphasis on the involvement of end users as the real driving force behind innovation.
LLSA is the result of a joint initiative driven by the Regional Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science and the Ministry of Health of the Andalusian Regional Government, and was set in motion on 24 November 2008 with the signing of a framework agreement in which a pioneer group of 44 public and private organisations from the healthcare and technology sphere took part. The network is based on an open innovation system aimed at facilitating the development and validation of different technological solutions for specific welfare problems to improve the quality of life of society as a whole.
The open system policy is in line with the new user-driven, open innovation approach being promoted by the European Union with the creation of "Living Labs" and the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), and is also included in the innovation strategy laid out in the Third Health Plan of the Second Modernisation of Andalusia.
