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Due to globalisation there are increasing opportunities for SMEs to pursue international markets. Transnational living lab (LL) approach has been suggested as a promising way to help SMEs to pursue in international markets. However, what kind of services SMEs are expecting from transnational LLs is less clear. By conducing 82 semi-structured open-ended interviews among health and well-being SMEs from eight different Baltic Sea region countries, a typology for transnational LL-service needs is defined. As a result of a conventional content analysis, 12 main needs were identified. By far, the most popular LL need was testing service. The second most popular need group was formed by eight equally important services, origin of which can be linked to the commonly known internal barriers of SME internationalisation. However, some needs were differing between established SMEs and startups, depending on their prior LL experiences. Suggestions for key characteristics of transnational LL concept are proposed.

This chapter explores the global–local challenge nexus through a case study of Indonesia’s domestic worker movement, concentrating on its use of street protest as a means of gaining visibility, local legitimacy, and political purchase. Since the 1990s, research on domestic work in Southeast Asia has highlighted the growth and significance of the continuing flow of female workers across national borders within and beyond the region, exposing how migrant domestic workers are subjected to disciplinary and regulatory processes which seek to turn them into “ideal maids” and pinpointing forms of resistance. However, this scholarly focus has obscured developments inside Indonesia which employs at least four of the estimated ten million domestic workers in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Drawing on press and NGO photographs, the available “archive”, and the testimony of participants, this chapter demonstrates the multi-scalar nature of the connections and genealogies which underpin Indonesia’s domestic worker movement and traces the development of what I identify as a politics of presence which supported the articulation and emergence of a nascent Indonesian domestic worker class.