scholarly journals An international exploration of barriers and tactics in the public sector innovation process

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Emre Cinar ◽  
Paul Trott ◽  
Christopher Simms
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation

scholarly journals Innovation in the public sector: Towards an open and collaborative approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Bekkers ◽  
Lars Tummers
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Open Process

Innovation in the public sector is high on the agenda of politicians, civil servants and societal organizations. This attention in practice is mirrored in an increasing number of scholarly articles. In this introduction to the special issue on public sector innovation, we discuss how the scholarly perspectives on innovation have changed. Previously, it was assumed that innovation could be organized within organizations: if your organization had the necessary resources, innovation could happen. Nowadays, innovation in the public sector is seen as an open process of collaboration between stakeholders across various organizations. This change towards open and collaborative approaches has consequences for studies on innovation, for instance, it becomes important to analyse how to activate stakeholders to join the innovation process. Next to this, scholars interested in innovation should connect their research with other literature streams, such as those focused on network governance, leadership and design thinking. In such ways, innovation scholars can develop research that is relevant to society.

scholarly journals Illuminating the Gender Divide in Public Sector Innovation: Evidence From the Australian Public Service

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter van Acker ◽  
Jan Wynen ◽  
Sophie Op de Beeck
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Innovation Climate

Like many other aspects of the work environment, “innovation” is a gendered term that creates a barrier to women taking part in innovation processes and, in particular, in male-dominated and “masculine” industries. This article looks into the role of gender, as well as other potential determinants, in explaining differences in the perceived innovation climate for public sector employees. This innovation climate depicts the opportunities and support employees receive with creating, promoting, and implementing innovative ideas in the workplace. Even though the public sector is often regarded as a more “feminine” work environment, our results show that women feel less encouraged in the innovation process when compared with men. Moreover, length of service and red tape appear to have a detrimental effect on individuals’ experiences of the innovation climate.

scholarly journals relationship between research and innovation in the public sector – an analysis of five cases from labour and welfare services

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (Special issue) ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Magnus Gulbrandsen ◽  
Gry Cecilie Høiland
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Knowledge Codification ◽  
Set Up

Many public agencies promote renewal in the public sector through projects that require a productive combination of research and innovation activities. However, the role of research in innovation processes is a neglected theme in the public sector innovation literature. We address this gap through an analysis of five cases from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. We find few examples of innovations based directly on research, but several examples of research on innovations and on more complex co-evolutionary processes of the two activities. Research seems to be particularly important for the diffusion and scaling up of innovations. We find that research has an impact on innovation in later phases of the innovation process through the formalisation of practice-based and unsystematic knowledge, codification of experiences, and legitimation to ensure political support and funding. This new conceptualisation contributes to the public sector innovation literature and may help improve policies that set up a rather limited role for research.

scholarly journals Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Anne Vorre Hansen ◽  
Ines Mergel ◽  
Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Elusive Concept

The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding of its versatile nature. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiple dimensions of living labs, this article provides a review assessing how the environments, methods and outcomes of living labs are addressed in the extant research literature. The findings are drawn together in a model synthesizing how living labs link to public sector innovation, followed by an outline of knowledge gaps and future research avenues.

scholarly journals Optimal Innovation Strategies in the Public Sector

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ani Matei ◽  
Carmen Săvulescu ◽  
Corina-Georgiana Antonovici ◽  
Reli Ceche
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
Complex Forms

For the time being, public sector innovation gains new and complex forms of expression: managerial, institutional, technological or communication. This fact is also due to national and international important bodies’ interest for using innovation as resource and tool for public sector development. Characterised by complexity and adaptation, the innovative processes in the public sector embrace the form of medium and long term innovation strategies, holding high key socio-economic impact on the social utility of public sector innovation. The optimality of innovation strategies becomes a tool for improved decisions in public sector management, providing the methodology for their evaluation related to the objectives of development in the public sector.

scholarly journals Public Sector’s Innovativeness: Theoretical and Methodological Perplexities

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Joksimovic ◽  
Slavica Manic ◽  
Danica Jovic
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Very High

Research question: This article considers the problems of measuring public sector innovation by asking the question whether and why interpretation of the achievements regarding the public sector innovativeness might be questionable. Motivation: The most recent literature on public sector innovation reveals two perspectives. One of them is assertion that the public sector suffers an innovation deficit, while the other claims that it is actually more innovative than a common credit. Insights in the results from recent large studies of measuring public sector innovation have shown very high rates of innovations, higher than in private sector (between 50 % and 80 % of respondents have recorded at least one type innovation during the period of two years). The lack of a uniquely, or at least dominant, attitude regarding the above-mentioned standpoints represents the basic inspiration for the actualization of this problem. Idea: The aim of the paper is twofold: 1) to offer an overview of three established theoretical attempts (assimilation, demarcation and integrative) dealing with public sector innovation, in order to present the evolution of the issue; 2) to prove that the inclination to more general over contextually specific understanding of innovation (and vice versa) has an impact both on its operationalization and on the interpretation of the achievements. Findings: In spite of the fact that theoretical considerations show noticeable detachment from assimilation perspective, empirical studies still copy this approach and the associated methodology. Surveys introduced subjectivity through arbitrary interpretation of the innovation concept, choice of research techniques and respondents and using of non-measurable goals as indicators of innovation outputs. Since this has affected and overrated their outcomes, we have found that empirical studies have not provided reliable depiction of the state of affairs regarding the PSI. Contribution: Having presented theoretical and methodological arguments why relying on the assimilation approach is neither the only nor even the most adequate way to answer the question whether the  public sector is more innovative than the private one, we point to the necessity of using the other two approaches, particularly integrative one in order to find a coherent method of PSI measurement.

scholarly journals Containers, facilitators, innovators? The role of cities and city employees in innovation activities

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teemu Makkonen ◽  
Maria Merisalo ◽  
Tommi Inkinen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities

Innovation has long been considered one of the key engines of economic growth, and patents as important incentives for research and development activity. Particularly in terms of intellectual property rights (IPR), however, little is known about how cities contribute to regional innovation: are they containers, facilitators or innovators? This is investigated here through empirical material derived from 27 interviews with top departmental management in three Finnish cities (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa). The results show that local city governments (LCGs) consider cities as facilitators of innovation activities but also admit that there are limits (time constraints and lack of resources) to the influence of LCGs over the innovation environment. Still, many of the public sector innovations (especially social innovations) that do not necessarily have a clear market potential would not have been created without the active role of LCGs as innovators. City employees are innovative – the seeming lack of public sector innovation is actually a result of measurement issues that favour (patentable) technological innovations rather than those more common to LCGs, meaning service and organisational types. Therefore, LCGs can be seen as highly innovative organisations. There are, however, barriers to innovation in the public sector, such as the cost of innovation activity, the lack of incentives for it and a working culture that does not support it. Lastly, the results show that LCGs have not really fully considered the possibilities and potential of owning their own IPR; to be specific, potentially lucrative opportunities should be explored.

scholarly journals Inovasi Pelayanan Perizinan Bangunan Gedung 3.0 Di Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Gitta Sonali Kusuma Wardani ◽  
Amy Yayuk Sri Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Building Permit ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Speed Up

ABSTRACTInnovation has advanced fast not only in the private sector, but also in the public sector. One of public sector innovations in the field of licensing services in DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is Building Licensing Innovation 3.0 carried out by the Investment Agency and One Stop Integrated Services - DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. The objective of the 3.0 innovation is to speed up the process of completing a building permit (IMB), from 42 working days to 2-3 hours. This study used qualitative research approach with a descriptive research design to provide a clearer and deeper picture of a symptom or phenomenon occured. The data were obtained using observation, interviews, and literature studies with reference to the concept of public service innovation by Windrum (2008). The results indicated that the innovation of building permit services 3.0 in DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is a series of other forms of public sector innovation, although according to the process it does not run simultaneously and the forms of these innovations influence other forms of public sector innovation. ABSTRAKInovasi telah berkembang begitu luas bukan hanya terjadi di sektor swasta, namun juga digunakan di sektor publik. Salah satu contoh inovasi sektor publik di bidang pelayanan perizinan di Pemerintah Provinsi (Provinsi) DKI Jakarta yakni Inovasi Perizinan Bangunan Gedung 3.0 yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Penanaman Modal dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu - Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Tujuan inovasi 3.0 tersebut untuk mempercepat proses penyelesaian Izin Mendirikan Bangunan (IMB) yang selama ini dikeluhkan oleh masyarakat karena awalnya dalam menerbitkan IMB memerlukan waktu 42 hari kerja, namun saat ini hanya diperlukan waktu 2-3 jam saja. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif untuk memberikan suatu gambaran yang lebih jelas dan mendalam mengenai suatu gejala atau fenomena yang terjadi. Sumber data penelitian ini menggunakan data primer dan sekunder yakni observasi, wawancara dan studi literatur dengan merujuk pada konsep inovasi pelayanan publik yang dikemukakan oleh (Windrum, 2008). Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa inovasi izin perizinan pelayanan gedung 3.0 di Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta merupakan sekumpulan rangkaian dari bentuk-bentuk inovasi sektor publik lainnya walaupun menurut prosesnya tidak berjalan secara simultan dan bentuk dari inovasi ini saling mempengaruhi bentuk inovasi sektor publik lainnya.

scholarly journals Case Studies of Public Sector Innovation in Increasing Local Tax Compliance

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Pratiwi Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Human Resource Training ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Public sector innovation (PSI) is important driving factor of economic development. Tax is one of the drivers of economic development as 70% of national expenditure are covered by tax revenue. However, the tax revenue ratio towards the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Indonesia is less than 13% and is the lowest among Southeast Asian economies. This study describes two case studies in local governments on increasing the awareness of the citizens to pay tax. This study focuses on innovation process, the knowledge flow, supporting conditions and challenges in implementing the innovations. By employing case study method, this study suggests acknowledgement, human resource training, multi-stakeholder partnership, and bottomp-up approach have stimulated innovativeness of public organizations. 

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