Living labs as a path to public innovation and co-creation: Extended abstract

Researchers have focused on a shift in public administration from new public management (NPM) to new public governance (NPG) and a relat-ed emergence of new forms of innovation based in collaboration and co-creation. The notion of co-creation of innovation has come to the fore and opened for both new terminologies and practices of public sector innova-tion. However, these studies are still in the beginning, and there is a lack of knowledge about how co-creation of innovation in the public sector can actually be done and legitimised stressing the public aspects of innova-tion. This paper discusses how living labs create new frames for innovation and co-creation relevant to the public sector.