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.

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 […]

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.

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).

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?