Public sector innovation

Sanna Tuurnas

Chapter 33 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 125-128 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry focuses on public sector innovation, which is distinct from the private sector due to its pluralistic and political nature, requiring leaders to balance various stakeholders’ demands and concern public accountability. Public sector innovation involves multiple actors, creating complexity but also potential strength. Examples from Finnish cities show that engaging local stakeholders in co-creating solutions can enhance sense of community and service quality. However, stakeholders often remain consulted parties rather than equal collaborators throughout the process. The core challenges of collaborative public sector innovation involve ensuring equal opportunities and diversity among participants. Affluent, educated citizens often dominate, leading to representation issues. Managers must balance openness and good governance while avoiding ideological biases. Effective management requires leveraging diverse assets, co-creation, and balancing risks and collaboration across all phases of the innovation process. Overall, successful public sector innovation requires holistic approaches, supportive structures, and careful evaluation of both successes and failures.

Keywords: Public sector innovation; Collaboration; Co-creation; Urban development; Good governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035306459.00041 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22049_33

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().