Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

Lars Fuglsang, Anne Vorre Hansen, Ines Mergel and Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk
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Lars Fuglsang: Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Anne Vorre Hansen: Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Ines Mergel: Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk: Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, 2418 Elverum, Norway

Administrative Sciences, 2021, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: public innovation; co-creation; public value creation; living labs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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