摘要：This study explores an alternative healthcare innovation proje ct in its mak ing using e thnographic research me thods. The proj ect is a confined space—a living lab—that cannot fully be described or explained in the same way we nor mally understand set-ups for healthcare innovation. By creating its own space, in the intersection betwee n for mal and infor mal str uctures, it draws our attention to a new way of organizing healthcare innovation. Tak ing an ethnographic research approach, it is suggeste d how a concept of a bubble can be used to de scribe the nature of the living lab as a partial and flexible object that constitutes multiple future possibilities. The concept of the bubble challenges the notion of the living lab as a cheese bell, which is the term used by the field participants, inspired by Clayton Christensen. Bring ing in theoretical points from Bruno Latour regarding laboratorie s, this study explores the materiality of the laborator y and its political nature. The study contribute s to the debate on innovation in healthcare and e specially fuses to the discussion of how to organize healthcare innovation. It argue s that we nee d to pay attention to new kinds of living labs—like the one introduced in this study.
关键词：Healthcare; Healthcare Innovation; Living Labs; Laboratory; Epital
