Can we measure public sector innovation? A literature review

Abstract: The aim of this article is to give an overview of scholarly state-of-the-art in terms of both conceptualizing and measuring public sector innovations. In order to do so, the article consists of following sections: first, we give a brief overview of prevailing attempts to conceptualize (define) public sector innovation and contrast it with older literature (Tocqueville, Weber, Schumpeter); second, we briefly summarize private sector innovation performance measurements and indicators; third, we discuss state of the art in discussions of measuring public sector performance in general, and look at recent discussions of public sector productivity, what and how can be measured; fourth, we discuss recent projects and literature on measuring public sector innovation; this is followed by brief overview of attempts to measure social innovations and finally we conclude by drawing these various discussions together by detailing what and how can we measure in public sector innovation with good scholarly conscious.

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