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Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership book cover

1st Edition

Innovation in City Governments Structures, Networks, and Leadership

By Jenny Lewis, Lykke Margot Ricard, Erik Hans Klijn, Tamyko Ysa Figueras Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services that have value for stakeholders (such as citizens) in terms of the social and political outcomes they... Read more

Part 1: Innovation Capacity: A Framework for Analysis

1. The Public Sector Innovation Puzzle

2. Structures and Innovation

3. Social Networks and Innovation

4. Leadership and Innovation

Part 2: A Comparison of Three Cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen and Rotterdam

5. The Innovation Environment: Governance Structures and Economic Challenges

6. Innovation Capacity: Drivers and Supports

7. Innovation Networks: Connections and Brokerage

8. Fostering Innovation: Leadership

Part 3: Conclusions: What Supports Innovation in City Governments?

9. Linking Structures, Networks, Leadership and Innovation

10. Supporting Innovation in City Governments

Biography

Jenny M. Lewis is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lykke Margot Ricard is Senior Adviser on Innovation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Erik Hans Klijn is Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Tamyko Ysa Figueras is Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management in ESADE Business School, Spain.

"If you are interested in how social structure can deeply influence social innovation outcomes, or in jump-starting social innovation in your city, this book will provide clear insights about how the way we lead, organize, and interact affects the way we innovate as a society." –Michael W-P Fortunato, Sam Houston State University, USA

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