The scope of this chapter is to explore the collaborative turn in the Nordic countries. We outline possible paths from discourses to practices and pinpoint what types of institutional changes and challenges result from the collaborative turn, foregrounding co-production in the Nordic countries. The research topic guiding the book points out, on the one hand, how collaboration and even co-production are not new in the Nordics. On the other hand, what might be new is a transformative path from corporatism and hierarchy to more collaborative co-production. The core questions then address how the collaborative turn influences the Nordic welfare model and policy reforms and whether co-production transforms the welfare state, leading to different institutional trajectories. In this chapter, we introduce “the collaborative turn”, followed by a section outlining and discussing the concepts and practices of co-production and co-creation. As we will point out in our conceptual positioning, contextualizing is key; hence, we unfold the characteristics and developments of the Scandinavian welfare state and administrative regimes as a significant framing of the collaborative turn and our chapters. Then, four Nordic national profiles follow, in which we briefly outline public policies and research related to co-production and co-creation in the four Nordic countries.