Living labs for public sector innovation: An integrative literature review

The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding o...

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Published inAdministrative sciences Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 1 - 19
Main Authors Fuglsang, Lars, Hansen, Anne Vorre, Mergel, Ines, Røhnebæk, Maria Taivalsaari
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI 01.06.2021
MDPI AG
Subjects
co-creation
Innovations
Knowledge
Literature reviews
living labs
public innovation
Public sector
public value creation
Value creation
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Summary:The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding of its versatile nature. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiple dimensions of living labs, this article provides a review assessing how the environments, methods and outcomes of living labs are addressed in the extant research literature. The findings are drawn together in a model synthesizing how living labs link to public sector innovation, followed by an outline of knowledge gaps and future research avenues.
ISSN:2076-3387
2076-3387
DOI:10.3390/admsci11020058