Volume 29, Issue 1, 2024
Open Issue
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
1. Emerging Technologies and Public Innovation in the Saudi Public Sector: An Analysis of Adoption and Challenges Amidst Vision 2030, by Mohamed G. Bendary and Dr. Jegatheesan Rajadurai
Discussion Papers:
2. Research and Publishing on Collaboration and Innovation in the Public Sector, a Presentation, by Eleanor D., Glor, Fellow, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Book Reviews:
3. Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor
Resources
Article: Verhoest, Koen, Chesney Callens, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena Brogaard, Jaime García-Rayado and Steven Nõmmik. 2023. Designing Cross-Sector Collaboration to Foster Technological Innovation: Empirical Insights from eHealth Partnerships in Five Countries. Public Administration Review, 1–18. Open Access. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/puar.13785.
This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public-private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The study compares 19 eHealth partnerships across five European countries and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses. The findings show that small, centralized, and homogeneous partnerships are most successful at achieving technological innovation. The study highlights the importance of partnership design in spurring innovation and calls for a reconsideration of some of the underlying assumptions of collaborative innovation theory.
Evidence for practice:
- Public-private innovation partnerships (PPIs) are increasingly used to innovate public services through new technology.
- The results from this study demonstrate the importance of partnership design, showing that small, centralized, and homogeneous PPIs generate technological innovations.
- The presence of high levels of interpersonal trust among participants is necessary to create technological innovations
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Published March 21, 2024