Innovation in the Public Sector: Linking Capacity and Leadership [Paperback]

Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?Linking Innovation to the Public Sector: Contexts, Concepts and Challenges; V.Bekkers; J.Edelenbos & B.Steijn Innovation in the Public Sector: An Introductionary Over view; C.Pollit How Common Is Public Sector Innovation and How Similar IS IT to Private Sector Innovation; L.Fuglsang & J.S.Pedersen Small States, Innovation and Administrative Capacity; R.Kattel, T.Randma-Liiv & T.Kalvet Public Sector Innovation at the Urban Level: The Case of Public Procurement; V.Lember, T.Kalvet & R.Kattel Innovation Inside Government: The Importance of Networks; J.M.Lewis, M.Considine & D.Alexander Competing Values in the Management of Innovative Projects: The Case of the RandstadRail Project; H.van der Voort, J.Koppenjan, E.ten Heuvelhof, M.Leijten & W.Veeneman Exploring the Innovative Capacity of Intergovernmental Network Managers: the Art of Boundary Scanning and Boundary Spanning; J.Voets & F.De Rynck Innovating entrepreneurship in health care: How health care executives perceive innovation and retain legitimacy; W.van der Scheer, M.Noordegraaf & P.Meurs An Innovative Public Sector? Embarking on the Innovation Journey; V.Bekkers, J.Edelenbos & B.Steijn

DAMON ALEXANDER is Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia VICTOR BEKKERS is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Public Administration of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Director of the Center for Public Innovation, the Netherlands MARK CONSIDINE is Professor and Director at the Centre for Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, Austral.