Public Innovation and Living Labs in Action: A Comparative Analysis in post-New Public Management Contexts

A Comparative Analysis of Municipal Public Innovation: Evidence from Romania and United States

“…With respect to the first goal, the comparison between organizational arrangements reflects upon the difficulty to formulate a unique and comprehensive definition for PSI labs, acknowledged in the literature [8,9]. Nonetheless, the specifics of each case do converge on the characterization provided by [75] of "trans-disciplinary collaborative spaces", with emphasis on the "common orientation to achieve public innovations aimed at solving social problems, through the use of massive data, application of experimental and agile methodologies, openness to collaboration with citizens and other organizations, and prototyping solutions to real problems in specific contexts" [76]. The novelty resides not on the side of existing differences, but rather on how these differences are positioned in the theoretical frameworks of OECD's innovation capacity, and the typology of behavioral insights.…”

Different perceptions, different open government strategies: The case of local Mexican public managers

“…This approach is connected to the approach to e-government interoperability (Criado, 2012). In other contexts, collaboration is applied to the new public governance approach, involving the increasing engagement of private and third sector stakeholders in public management problem-solving and decision-making (Ansell & Torfing, 2014;Criado et al, 2020;Osborne, 2006;Ruijer & Meijer, 2019). Here, collaboration also highlights the importance of publicprivate partnerships and alliances in defining public problems, and using public innovation strategies to develop solutions which add public value to the concerned communities.…”

Anticipatory innovation governance

“…As such, innovation and living labs have become widespread in the public sector (OECD, 2017;Tõnurist, Kattel, and Lember, 2017;Schuurman and Tõnurist, 2016;McGann, Blomkamp, and Lewis, 2018;Criado et al, 2020). Some (but not all) of these laboratories have also have had and have clear anticipatory purposes (see Table 3.4)e.g., the Interactive Creativity Landscape, which is part of the Fraunhofer Office Innovation Centre; Learning Garden in the Scandinavian Financial Institute, Future Centre "The Shipyard" by the Dutch Tax Office, UK Department of Trade and industry Future Focus laboratory, Royal Mail Innovation Laboratory and others (Haner, 2005(Haner, et al, 2007Salako, Gardnerand Callaghan, 2017).…”