Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector – New Perspectives on the Role of Citizens?

Authors

  • Annika Agger Department of Politial Science and Business, Roskilde University
  • Dorthe Hedensted Lund Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v21i3.11557

Keywords:

Citizen participation, Clients, Consumers, Co-producers, Co-innovators

Abstract

Collaborative innovation in the public sector is increasingly used as a strategy for balancing citizens’ rising expectations for public services with limited public resources. This article suggests that public polices construct citizens as clients, consumers, or co- producers and thereby encourage or discourage certain behaviours, with different poten- tial contributions to innovation. The article conceptualises a new role, that of citizens’ as co-innovators, and offers an analytical model that can be used in future studies of how public managers can act as civic enablers by creating different spaces for public innova- tion on the basis of the applicable citizen role.

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Author Biographies

Annika Agger, Department of Politial Science and Business, Roskilde University

Annika Agger, PhD, is associate professor in public administration at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Her research field is urban governance and how public authorities can enable inclusive and democratic polices that creates public value. She has written articles and contributions to books on how to create institutional settings for public deliberations and on how urban practitioners working in the interface between public institutions and civil society can contribute to make positive changes.

Dorthe Hedensted Lund, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen

Dorthe Hedensted Lund, PhD, is senior researcher at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. Her research mainly focuseson how network governance and collaborative spatial planning can support sustainable development both in urban and rural settings. She has in particular focused on the involvement of private actors in public governance through governance networks and public-private partnerships, including institutional and normative barriers for these types of governance and the roles of citizens.

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Published

2017-09-15

How to Cite

Agger, A., & Hedensted Lund, D. (2017). Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector – New Perspectives on the Role of Citizens?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 21(3), 17–37. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v21i3.11557

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Original Articles

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Copyright (c) 2017 Annika Agger, Dorthe Hedensted Lund

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