From the 25th to the 27th of September 2019, the Co-VAL consortium will carry out the 5th Plenary Meeting and the 3rd Stakeholder Panel Meeting in Cagliari, Sardinia. The Plenary Meeting will take place from the 25th to the 26th of September 2019, hosted by the Lisbon Council. On the 27th of September, the Stakeholders […]
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Nowadays, there is a certain ambiguity – as well as lack of systematic empirical evidence – over how public administrators are defining digital transformation, based on their own daily practices, how they are approaching digital transformation projects, and what their anticipated outcomes are. In their newest published paper ‘Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews’ in […]
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“Co-creation” and “design thinking” are trendy themes – the topic of innumerable conferences and a growing number of academic papers. But how do we turn co-creation into a reality for Europe’s 508 million citizens? In Co-Creation of Public Services: Why and How, Co-VAL’s new Policy Brief, co-authors Francesco Mureddu and David Osimo propose a ten-step roadmap for delivering genuinely user-centric digital […]
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On 6th June 2019, meet us in Brussels to discuss about co-creation and design thinking in the public sector! We are hosting a high-level summit to see the launch of Co-VAL’s first policy brief titled “Government Co-Creation: Why and How – a new policy brief based on more than one year of field analysis and […]
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admifIn the Public Deliverable D5.1 ‘Report on cross-country comparison on existing innovation and living labs’, Lars Fuglsang and Anne Vorre Hansen from Roskilde University describe various applications of living labs to decision-making. The basic two examples are living labs as a collaborative framework for changing perceptions and goals and living labs as an ecosystem for […]
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Given the many and broad definitions of living labs we previously discussed in our blog post Defining Living Labs’, it becomes challenging to draw the exact boundaries around the living lab phenomenon vis-à-vis other innovation activities.
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Within the living lab literature, there are a number of theorists that have set the scene when it comes to defining what living labs are. Lars Fuglsang and Anne Vorre Hansen from Roskilde University analyze in the Public Deliverable 5.1 ‘Report on cross-country comparison on existing innovation and living labs’, that most literature refers to […]
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In the Public Deliverable 5.1 ‘Report on cross-country comparison on existing innovation and living labs’ Lars Fuglsang and Anne Vorre Hansen from Roskilde University investigate the concept and method of innovation and living labs, and how living labs and other participatory and experimental methods are used to enable value co-creation based on co-innovation of public services.
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In a previous blog post based on the Public Deliverable ‘D1.3 Research report on experiments’ we discussed the factors that can stimulate citizen engagement in the co-Production of public services under the Public Service Logic (PSL).
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In the newest published Public Deliverable ‘D1.3 Research report on experiments’, Dr Natalia Oprea (Bocconi University), aims to test empirically how extrinsic participation of citizens in service delivery can be improved. The general question is: What factors can stimulate citizen engagement in the co-production of public services?
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