CFP: Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation - RUC Sunrise Conference (due Sep 15)

This conference will explore the link between governance and innovation by bringing together academic scholars, experienced practitioners and interested students.

Abstracts due Sep 15, 2012.

Where and when: RUC Sunrise Conference - Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation. Roskilde University. October 29-31, 2012. http://ruconf.ruc.dk/index.php/sun12/sun12

ABOUT - Rising demands, fiscal constraints and a growing number of wicked problems have generated an increasing demand for innovation of public policy, public services and public regulation. Public innovation is rapidly moving to the top of the agenda at all levels of government. It is increasingly recognized as the intelligent alternative to across the board budget cuts and as a promising way of improving services, user satisfaction and the motivation of public employees.

At the same time, there is a growing frustration with traditional forms of bureaucratic governance as well as with the recent New Public Management reforms that both tend to stifle rather than enhance public innovation. Hence in order to turn public innovation into a permanent, pervasive and systematic activity in the public sector we need to transform the current system of public governance. We need to reform public organisations and the predominant accountability and value-for-money systems, drill holes in the silos, mobilise an engage private actors, create new collaborative arenas, and develop new forms of innovation management. In short, we need to transform governance in order to enhance public innovation.

Read more: http://ruconf.ruc.dk/index.php/sun12/sun12