Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collaboration and design : new tools for public innovation / Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing -- Necessity as the mother of reinvention : discourses of innovation in local government / Steven Griggs and Helen Sullivan -- Reconstructing bureaucracy for service innovation in the governance era / Robert Agranoff -- The complexity of governance : challenges for public sector innovation / Susanne Boch Waldorff, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, and Betina Vind Ebbesen -- The impact of collaboration on innovative projects : a study of Dutch water management / Nanny Bressers -- Understanding innovative regional collaboration : metagovernance and boundary objects as mechanisms / Stig Montin, Magnus Johansson Joakim Forsemalm -- The importance of joint schemas and brokers in promoting collaboration for innovation / Barbara Gray and Hong Ren -- Collaborative networks and innovation : the negotiation-management nexus / Robyn Keast and Jennifer Waterhouse -- Innovative leadership through networks / Katrien Termeer and Sibout Nooteboom -- Designing collaborative policy innovation : lessons from a Danish municipality / Annika Agger and Eva Sørensen -- Design attitude as an innovation catalyst / Christian Bason -- Collaborating on design, designing collaboration / Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing.

"While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management. While 'results-oriented' public management may be here to stay, scholars and practitioners are now shifting their attention to the process of management and to how the public sector can create 'value'. One of the urgent needs addressed by this book is a better specification of the institutional and political requirements for sustaining a robust vision of public innovation, through the key dimensions of collaboration, creative problem-solving, and design. This book brings together empirical studies drawn from Europe, the USA and the antipodes to show how these dimensions are important features of public sector innovation in many Western democracies with different conditions and traditions.This volume provides insights for practitioners who are interested in developing an innovation strategy for their city, agency, or administration and will be essential reading for scholars, practitioners and students in the field of public policy and public administration"-- Provided by publisher.