Living labs for co-creation and co-innovation: Literature review of the literature about living labs and other experimental and participative methods in public libraries

This report is Deliverable 3.7 Living labs for co-creation and co-innovation of the Horizon Europe LibrarIN project (Value Co-creation and Social Innovation for a new Generation of European Libraries). It reports Task 3.3 Living labs for co-creation and co-innovation of Work Package 3 Thematic and empirical work in selected co-creation areas exploring how libraries develop experimental settings for co-creation and co-innovation. This first deliverable provides a review of the literature about libraries as living labs, i.e. as experimental settings applying participative methods of co-creation and co-innovation for public service/library innovation. Thus, we focus libraries as living labs settings rather than libraries with living labs. Different concepts, theories and empirical examples of innovation and living lab activities in public libraries found in the literature are described