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This Advanced Introduction explores innovation in the public sector, examining the mindsets, methods and strategies needed for success at every stage. It draws on global case studies to showcase key practical tools that can support innovation across local, regional and national governments.
Key Features:
Demonstrates how to generate, gather and assess promising ideas
Evaluates the role of markets and competition
Presents approaches used to identify, spread and scale efficient new methods
Highlights ways to prevent government and political environments from crushing imaginative risk-taking
Covers the benefits and drawbacks of diverse methods, from the organisation of specialist teams and labs to systemic change, and from different models of finance to the use of data and AI
Providing an accessible and rigorous framework, this Advanced Introduction is essential reading for practitioners working in both city and national governments, as well as scholars and students of public policy, public sector economics, regulation and governance, administration, management and organisational innovation.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction: why innovation matters now
1 What is public sector innovation?
2 How can public organisations innovate effectively?
3 Vital building blocks for innovation
4 Labs and units: organising public innovation in specialised teams
5 How to do 'whole of government' innovation
6 Experiments and evidence
7 The transferability question and adopting innovations
8 Innovating the forms of public institutions
9 The role of design
10 Systems and systemic innovation
11 Innovating public finance
12 Absorptive capacity, simplicity and synthesis - connecting innovation to policy and strategy
13 Shared intelligence and strength without weight
14 When should governments try to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial?
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