Post-doctoral offer: Maturity model to support the co-creation of locally accessible urban factories

The post-doctoral project aims to develop a maturity model to enable collaboration among the various actors involved in a LAUDS co-creation project. The challenge is to create and implement an evaluation framework that would support and develop the collaborative capacity of the project members.

Thus, it aims to support and develop the collaborative capacity of the various involved actors in a distributed and decentralised environment. The aim is to create a local readiness level scale to allow a self-evaluation of the actors while building an LAUDS factory. It will also include a persona analysis of the LAUDS factory's potential stakeholders (SMEs, start-ups, artists, makers and citizens, and local authorities…) and classification and clarification of their needs and expectations through interviews and surveys. It is essential to consider the diversity of the regional territories and different scales. The outcome of this thesis will be a capacity-building model that takes into account all the dimensions of the collaboration (i.e. actors, shared knowledge and documentation, quality criteria, openness and business models, networking, political and territory, etc.), including a stakeholder map to clearly understand the context conditions and the value elements to be delivered to each stakeholder.