Living labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector

Driving public sector innovation using big and open linked data (BOLD)

“…Hackathons can be an excellent way to crowdsource a solution. Living labs are environments that support public open innovation processes (Gascó 2017). These innovation labs enable public organizations to meet with private sector organizations and to derive jointly creative solutions.…”

From Organizations to Organizational Fields: The Evolution of Civic Innovation Ecosystems

“…Contrary to traditional R&D, the urban innovation ecosystem process is inherently ad hoc, shaped by local challenges, resources, and stakeholders (Cooke, 2016;Gascó, 2016). This presents two primary challenges.…”

“…Specific to urban technology, two general models have emerged to fill the hub role: living labs and innovation integrators (Bakici et al, 2013;Foster & Iaione, 2016). Municipal policy makers seeking to create an urban innovation ecosystem launch such an organization (Gascó, 2016;Juujarvi & Lund, 2016).…”

How to manage ICTs mediated co-production: a Public Value Perspective

“…Coproduction based on the above concept has never identified its own specific literature. Many of the contributions that are meaningful for the purpose of this research can be found in the public management literature [2,9,[22][23][24][25][26][27]] that has recently restored this old concept. The growing interest in co-production is also at the base of emerging alternative approaches to public management such as New Public Governance (NPG) or Networked Governance that promotes inter-agency cooperation, partnerships and cooperation with external actors in the co-production of public services [28,29].…”

“…ICTs mediated co-production has been widely debated in the public sector literature from different perspectives: the legal and policy making perspective [4][5][6] has discussed the regulations which are necessary to enable co-production; the organizational perspective [3,[7][8][9][10] has discussed the organizational changes necessary to implement co-production; the technical perspective [11][12][13] has described how technologies should be designed to enable coproduction; the performance oriented perspective [14] has discussed how to measure the effectiveness of co-produced services. All these perspectives correspond to the different organizational dimensions that affect the success of the production of a public service.…”