Urban Innovation Flashcards
What is innovation?
intentional and proactive process that involves the generation and ractical adoption and spread of new and creative ideas, which aim to produce a quality change in a specific context
aim of public innovation (4)
creating value
responding to public interest
addressing citzens’ basic need
enhancing efficiency of public services
Why inovate? (5)
1) global megatrends
2) improve service delivery
3) spur economic growth
4) increase responsiveness to needs and expectations (qulaity, availability, effectiveness)
5) pushes from EU and international organisations
megatrends (4)
1) digitalisation
2) climate change and resource scarcity
3) demographic changes
4) social and cultural changes
who innovates?
requires collaboration between different public and private actors (e.g. firms, experts, politicians, etc.)
What can be innovated? (7)
1) product
2) process
3) position
4) service
5) strategy
6) governance
7) rhetorics
enabling factors and barriers of innovation (4)
1) culture
2) context
3) institutions
4) organisations
culture (enabling factor and barrier)
+ flexibility and adaptability, willingness to experiment and learn
- risk aversion, zero-error culture, lack of trust in public sector
context (enabling factors vs. barriers)
+ tradition for stakeholders involvement
- lack of tradition of participatory practices
instiutions (enabling factors vs. barriers)
+ support from political ctors and/or public managers, “simple” regualtion and legal structures, tools to promote civic engagement
- reluctant politicians
organisations (enabling factors vs. barriers)
+ platform for idea generation, creation of collaborative governance structures, adaptive
- fragmentation, lack of resources, ineffective data managemnet, lack of incentives and rewards
how to innovate?
changing policy design, implementation and evaluation
strengtherning the collaboration between public and other stakeholders
