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100 _aStoll, Aline and Andermatt, Kevin C.
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245 _aTab the lab: A typology of public sector innovation labs
260 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300 _a91(1), Mar, 2025: p.93-110
520 _aMany public sector organizations set up innovation laboratories in response to the pressure to tackle societal problems and the high expectations placed on them to innovate public services. Our understanding of the public sector innovation laboratories’ role in enhancing the innovation capacity of administrations is still limited. It is challenging to assess or compare the impact of innovation laboratories because of how they operate and what they do. This paper closes this research gap by offering a typology that organizes the diverse nature of innovation labs and makes it possible to compare various lab settings. The proposed typology gives possible relevant factors to increase the innovation capacity of public organizations. The findings are based on a literature review of primarily explorative papers and case studies, which made it possible to identify the relevant criteria. The proposed typology covers three dimensions: (1) value (intended innovation impact of the labs); (2) governance (role of government and financing model); and (3) network (stakeholders in the collaborative arrangements). Comparing European countries and regions with regards to the repartition of labs shows that Nordic and British countries tend to have broader scope than continental European countries.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00208523241280129
650 _aCollaborative innovation, Organizational design, Public sector innovation, Public sector innovation labs, Typology building.
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773 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
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