Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance

This book examines how current systems of public governance can be transformed to enhance public innovation, emphasizing the need for new roles and public sector reforms. It suggests that combining elements from Classic Public Administration, New Public Management, and New Public Governance can stimulate the exploration and exploitation of new and bold ideas in the public sector. Multi-actor collaboration is key to improving public innovation for the benefit of public officials, private stakeholders, citizens, and society.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 366 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The demand for innovation in public policies and services has been on the rise due to a multitude of factors. These include rising and changing citizen expectations, severe fiscal constraints, unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and a growing number of stubborn societal problems. In response to this demand, this book aims to explore how current systems of public governance can be transformed to enhance public innovation.

Drawing on the latest research, the book examines the need for new roles and public sector reforms to facilitate this transformation. It scrutinizes the gradual transition towards New Public Governance, which emphasizes collaboration between public officials, private stakeholders, citizens, and society at large. The book argues that the key to public innovation lies in combining and balancing elements from Classic Public Administration, New Public Management, and New Public Governance.

Furthermore, it theorizes how multi-actor collaboration can be enhanced to further promote public innovation. By examining these various aspects, the book provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities facing public officials and policymakers in the pursuit of innovative solutions to societal problems.

Weight: 493g
ISBN-13: 9781107460935
Edition number: New ed