Collaborative innovation in public administration: Theoretical background and research trends of co-production and co-creation

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This paper presents the results of the content analysis of 139 Web of Science papers focused on collaborative innovation with external stakeholders of public administration, specifically on co-production and co-creation. The analysis included papers published between 2009 and 2018 and was based on a coding scheme consisting of 12 parameters grouped into four groups: paper descriptors, financial support of the research, methodological framework, and co-creation characteristics. The results reveal a considerable increase in researchers' interest in co-production and co-creation in the context of public administration in the last few years. This is particularly the case in Northern and Western Europe, where Anglo-Saxon and Nordic administrative traditions dominate. Furthermore, the results show that co-creation is most often placed in the contexts of social policy and welfare, as well as health care. Over the selected period, research seldom addressed companies as a target group in the co-creation of public services - in comparison to citizens and internal users. More than three quarters of the papers observed were empirical and less than 20% were quantitative. In general, a lack of conceptual clarity was often identified through the interchangeable usage of the terms co-creation and co-creation and the low level of international comparison - the majority of the papers focused on case descriptions at a national level, even though collaborative innovation is strongly related to administrative traditions dominating in specific regions.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Administrative Sciences ; ISSN: 2076-3387 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Subject: collaborative innovation ; co-creation ; co-production ; content analysis ; Web of Science

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jukić, Tina ; Pevcin, Primož ; Benčina, Jože ; Dečman, Mitja ; Vrbek, Sanja
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/admsci9040090
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/239987