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Bijl, Jill van der (2021)

The representing professional, online professional or participating professional? How public professionals identify their roles and tasks in case of living labs

Master thesis | Public Administration (MSc)

Living labs as an innovative form of co-creation challenges public professionals in their daily work when they represent the local government in the living lab. Aiming to distinguish perspectives of public professionals on their roles and tasks in the living lab, Q-methodology was used and resulted in three perspectives: The representing professional, the online professional and the participating professional. The perspectives provide insight in the relation between the local government and the living lab and the research uncovered a small gap between theoretical knowledge about possible roles and how public professionals themselves identify them, empirically. The results of Q-methodology are not generalizable and therefore it could be interesting to further study the institutional context of living labs and how this context affects the roles and tasks of the public professional.

Living lab

public professional

roles and tasks

q-methodology

Author

Bijl, Jill van der

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Specialisation

Public Management & Leadership

Supervisors

Eijk, C.J.A. van

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en