PSI-CO - Public sector innovation through collaboration: Work package 3
(2019) , 137 pages
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- Nowadays, public sector innovation is high on government agendas across OECD countries. Confronted with major budgetary pressures and grand societal challenges, governments worldwide experience a need to step beyond conventional wisdoms and sedimented practices. Despite the growing awareness of the need for collaboration, there is a lack of knowledge about how such collaborative governance arrangements result in meaningful innovations regarding policies and services, and how different forms of collaborative governance interact and reinforce each other. Furthermore, it is unclear what organizational, and individual conditions need to be present within administrations to foster collaborative governance arrangements. The Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Research on ‘Public Sector Innovation through Collaboration’ (BRAIN- PSI-CO) that brings together four research groups from different universities, addresses this research gap by conducting a multi method study on collaborative innovation, studying both: 1. how collaborative governance can foster innovation, and 2. by what conditions, in turn, collaborative innovation is supported. Next to providing academic advances, research on this topic is of particular relevance to the Federal ministries and agencies which are looking for, and experimenting with innovation strategies. It will offer practitioners insight into the potential of promoting public sector innovation through collaboration within and across governments, and with external stakeholders, and provide guidelines for establishing conditions favorable for such collaborative innovation. The overall research question of this project is ‘how and under which conditions do collaborative governance arrangements foster the initiation, adoption and diffusion of innovations in policies and services?’ First, in order to study how collaborative governance can foster public sector innovation, we analyze not only the innovative capacity, but also the internal dynamics of collaborative governance arrangements. Second, in order to identify what conditions support collaborative innovation, we study the meta-governance of collaborative innovation, as well as characteristics at the level of the individual civil servants involved and of the public organizations concerned. In doing this, specific attention is directed to if and how new practices of organization and HRM, such as New Ways of Working, foster capacity for collaborative innovation. Additionally, the role of the so-called government-wide innovation architecture is studied. After a theoretical-analytical model, a case study protocol and a case selection strategy have been developed in WP1 and reported in D1.1., nine case studies were conducted in WP2 (see D2.1). This data collection in the multiple case study took place from March 2017 till March 2018. This report presents the results of the cross-case analysis (WP3). First, the overall theoretical core elements are reiterated, and the overall research strategy, the methodology for data collection as well as the case selection strategy is discussed, with a short presentation of the nine anonymized cases. Subsequently, the analysis is presented.
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Verhoest, K., Steen, T., Aubin, D., Moyson, S., Fallon, C., Langbroek, T., Van Dijck, Riche, C., Thiry, A., & Callens, C. (2019). PSI-CO - Public sector innovation through collaboration: Work package 3. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/59529