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This study examines the question of which external factors must be present to be able to use living labs successfully.

These papers are co-authored by Prof. Dr. Mergel, Prof. Dr. Guenduez and Prof. Dr. Schedler.

The subject of the master‘s thesis presented here is the investigation of the cooperation between public administration and external service providers.

Cross-functional teams have been successfully used in the private sector for many years to develop innovative products. Cross-functional teams are teams whose members come from different departments of the organization. How this potential can be used for public administration is the topic of this article.

The aim of the thesis by Patrick Hamm was to investigate the effects of collaborations between citizens and public administrations in the field of open data. The focus was on changes in the existing structures and processes of public administration, which often stand in the way of progress in the area of open data.

This research project by Philipp Erdmann examines the fundamental differences in the expectations of administrative staff toward digital innovation. The aim is to find out to what extent the expectations of innovation differ among public servants and what significance digitization has for them.

This article from Rebecca Strauch, Anna Mayer und Corine Fontijn presents the results of an identification of barriers in the digital co-creation process for creating public services in Estonia. They include the stakeholders’ mindset towards responsibility sharing, the quality of relationships between stakeholders, hierarchical expectations towards government, and miscellaneous matters such as time and finance.

Interviews with ten stakeholders from academia, local- and national government…

The aim of this research contribution by Pauline Klanke is to determine the value that the cooperation of Digital Volunteers brings with it. It also aims to identify to which target group the created value is directed.

A article about the "mach mit!" projekt of the city of Friedrichshafen, which analyses their Open Innovation-Initiative