Background Due to an increasingly elderly population, a higher incidence of chronic
diseases and higher expectations regarding public service provision, healthcare services …

Collaborative innovation has been increasingly adopted by the public sector to address
complex issues and improve its efficiency. Despite the developments in the literature on this …

We need new governance solutions to help us improve public policies and services, solve
complex societal problems, strengthen social communities and reinvigorate democracy. By …

Co-production has become a buzzword for both scholars and practitioners in the past
decade. This introduction to the thematic issue 'Co-production: Implementation problems …

This book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over
the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical …

Governments increasingly tend to involve or rely on various societal actors to address social
challenges and develop cost-effective and high-quality public services. This paper identifies …

The last three years have been a period of many challenges related to the dynamically
changing conditions of the economic environment. Among these many changes, some of the …

Innovation in public services is propelled by collaborations between public actors, private
actors, and service users. A substantial literature has centered on the benefits of user …

This paper focuses on the issue of digital tech-enabled corporations that co-create an
innovative digital-output with startups; in this process, they require knowledge for decision …

Patient-centered care and health services' co-production are the cornerstones of the health
care system of the future. These constructs rely on the reconceptualization of the patient as a …