Public sector innovation research: What's next?
Jason Potts
ARC Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), Queensland University of Technology; School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD
Tim Kastelle
School of Business, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD
PP: 122 - 137
Abstract
This paper introduces the analytic context of public sector innovation studies along with an overview of the nine papers in this volume. But it also seeks to advance a new research agenda in public sector innovation studies from the economic perspective of the incentives to innovation in the public sector.
This argues for a practical model of public sector innovation that is less about imitation of the market sector or other public sector best practice and more cognizant of the scientific method of randomised controlled experiments.
Keywords
innovation; public sector; market sector; research agenda; scientific method; randomised control experiments
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