The Living Lab of Entrepreneurship Expert Panel wrapped up

11 September 2025

On September 9, 2025, nearly 20 experts from Poland, representing different fields, joined the Distance Lab partner RRDA team at a hybrid event to co-create the concept of the Living Lab of Entrepreneurship (LLE), a brand-new ecosystem supporting startups, entrepreneurship, and innovation in Podkarpackie region.

Technical details

The Polish living lab created during the DistanceLab process is identifying it’s main themes and working on more concrete plans for the activities. In the first expert panel the discussion focused on:

human capital challenges,
building stakeholder engagement,
boosting LLE’s visibility and sustainability,
strengthening the startup ecosystem.

Through hands-on workshops key areas for intervention were mapped out and clear directions were defined for the future.

Have a closer look at the event agenda: Experts Panel_AGENDA
Get to know the participated experts: Polish Experts of LLE

Four topics were identified for the future activities of the hub:

Human-Human-Tech – Quality of human capital in the Podkarpackie region
Human Tech – Intelligent and sustainable solutions for social and urban challenges (RegionaI Smart Specialisation – quality of life and ICT)
Startup ecosystem support system in the region – Knowledge diffusion, talent mobility, infrastructure availability, orchestration of co-creation processes of innovation, intellectual property protection
Smart People (Society 5.0) – “Digital maturity” for responsible innovations

Next, experts will be selected into these groups in such a way that each of them can contribute their knowledge, experience, potential, and contacts to work on the issue. Next, there will be work with experts in one-on-one sessions.

The importance of the visibility of the Living lab initiatives in the are has been recognized, and the communication and networking need to be discussed in the near future.

This is only the beginning: this will be an amazing shared space where ideas come to life!