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2023

Call for applications

STRATEGO Visiting Researchers Programme 2024

Deadline for applications: January 12, 2024

STRATEGO, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Antwerp invites applications for its Visiting Researchers Programme 2024. Specifically, the programme is targeted at early-career researchers working within STRATEGO’s areas of research and wishing to conduct a short research visit at University of Antwerp.

About STRATEGO

The STRATEGO Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence will develop interdisciplinary synergies on EU governance, trust and sustainable development at the University of Antwerp. STRATEGO brings together scholars from 7 research groups: Politics & Public Governance, International Politics, Government & Law, Department of Management, Plant & Ecosystems, Evolutionary ecology, and Centre for Health Economics Research & Modelling Infectious Diseases. Together, the STRATEGO consortium gathers complementary, high-level expertise and multidisciplinary competences in the area of sustainability, trust and European governance, allowing the Centre to develop synergies between the disciplines and resources in European studies at University of Antwerp. More details on STRATEGO and the consortium can be found on www.uantwerpen.be/stratego.

STRATEGO is a platform which is linked to the interdisciplinary UAntwerp research consortium GOVTRUST that focuses on Trust and Distrust in Multi-Level Governance.

STRATEGO’s Visiting Researchers Programme

STRATEGO aims to develop a joint research agenda on sustainability, trust and European multi-level governance with the purpose of generating knowledge and insights in support of EU policymaking. In this context, STRATEGO is committed to hosting external early-career researchers for short research visits of up to 2 months at the University of Antwerp. There will be a two-way transfer of knowledge between the visiting scholars and the STRATEGO Centre, benefiting from each other’s expertise. Visiting scholars will be hosted by one of the participating research groups. STRATEGO will fund travel and accommodation costs up to € 1.600,00 for each of the selected candidates. STRATEGO will also offer office space and full access to campus facilities. Up to 5 candidates will be selected for a research visit.

Profile

• Applicants should:
• either be in the final two years of their PhD trajectory (proven record of 2 years prior PhD research),

OR

• have obtained their doctoral degree (PhD) at the time of submission and have obtained their PhD not earlier than 2016.

• You are preparing OR have obtained your PhD in one of the disciplines of the participating research groups (law, social science, political science, public administration, economics, biology, or health and medicine).
• Your current research activities are related to STRATEGO’s theme of “Sustainability and Trust in EU Multilevel Governance” and matches the research agenda of one of the participating research groups.
• You are proficient in English.
• You have experience with interdisciplinary research.

Expectations

• You commit to presenting your current research in at least one seminar for the STRATEGO consortium and/or one guest lecture for students.
• You actively participate in the activities of STRATEGO and the hosting research group.
• You choose a supervisor that is part of the STRATEGO consortium (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/stratego/consortium/). Preferably, you have contacted the supervisor of your choice before submission.
• You reside in Antwerp for a consecutive period of up to 2 months in 2024 (excl. July and August).
• You acknowledge STRATEGO in any publications (partly) resulting from the Visiting Scholars Programme.

We offer

• Travel and accommodation costs refunded up to € 1.600,00.
• Facilities to conduct your research at University of Antwerp (desk space, log-in, library access, etc.).
• The possibility to fully participate in the activities of STRATEGO and the hosting research group.
• The possibility to communicate your own research to the members of STRATEGO and of the research groups involved.

How to apply?

The deadline for applications is January 12, 2024 (23:59 CET). The application should include:

• Your motivation (half a page) explaining why you want to be a visiting researcher at University of Antwerp and why STRATEGO would be a good fit for your work.
• An activities proposal (half a page) outlining the goal of and proposed activities during the research visit.
• The envisaged period of the research visit (arrival and departure date), which should take place in 2024 (excluding July and August).
• The supervisor you envision for your research visit and the research group you intend to join.
• An academic CV, including publication list
• Contact details

Submit your application, including all required materials listed above, to sophie.opdebeeck@uantwerpen.be. All materials should be emailed as a single PDF with the subject line “STRATEGO Visiting Researcher, FULL NAME”. The application deadline is January 12, 2024 at 23:59 CET (Brussels time). Review of applications will be completed and invitations sent by mid-February 2024 at the latest.

Please do not upload additional documentation (e.g., letters of recommendation, transcripts, funding documentation, English language proficiency documentation, and so forth). It is important that applicants properly follow the guidelines above.

For further information, please contact STRATEGO’s project manager Sophie Op de Beeck by e-mail at sophie.opdebeeck@uantwerpen.be.

Met vriendelijke groeten/ With kind regard

Koen Verhoest 

• Open Issue Volume 28 Issue 2
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2022

• Open Issue Volume 27 Issue 3
• Open Issue Volume 27 Issue 2
• Governor General of Canada’s Innovation Award Nominations. Open September 26 2022 Deadline November 18 2022 Questions 613 857 2114
• Creative Ways to Reuse Plastic See also: Environment – Sustainability
• Re-thinking Public Innovation, Beyond Innovation in Government by Jocelyne Bourgon
• Henry Giroux on pedagogy on YouTube, 10 minutes. In 2004 Dr. Giroux moved to Hamilton, Ontario, where he was named the Global Television Network Chair in Communications at McMaster University. In 2014, he became Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and continues as the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest.
• Improved Health Services to Northern Manitoba, Canada. Improved Health Services to Northern Manitoba, Canada. From 2011 to 2016, after becoming head of the Section of First Nations, Inuit and Métis health at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Marcia Anderson implemented a plan that reduced the physician vacancy rate in Northern Manitoba from 50 percent to 5 percent. In 2017, she worked on a leadership team to develop the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health with a mandate to provide leadership and advanced excellence in research, education, and health services in collaboration with First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities. In 2018, she served as a member of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic provincial clinical team to build Manitoba’s first provincial clinical and preventative services program.
• Taïeb Hafsi, Luc Bernier, Mehdi Farashahi. 2007, January. Institutional Entrepreneurs in the Public Sector: Towards a Contingency Theory Institutional Entrepreneurs in the Public Sector: Towards a Contingency Theory. Cahier de recherche N° 07-30-01. La Chaire de management stratégique international Walter-J.–Somers, HEC Montréal. ISSN: 1711-6309. Available from ResearchGage.
• Don Scott-Kemmis. 2009, November. Assessing Policies, Programs and Other Initiatives to Promote Innovation in the Public Sector: International Case Studies. Management Advisory Committee Report 9 – ANNEX 1. Sydney, Australia: Don Scott-Kemmis & Associates
• 2022 IIAS-EUROMENA 2022 Joint Conference on Next Generation Governance and Young Global Public Administration, 27 – 30 June, 2022 (Rome, Italy). Final programme: Track: Social Innovation, Commons and Administration, Tuesday, 28 and Wednesday, 29 June.
• The GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence, together with the research groups Politics & Public Governance and Government & Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), is looking to fill three study vacancies in the field of crisis governance and trust. First deadline August 15, 2022.
• Pragmatism-based Co-Inquiry in Public Service Innovation, by Rasmus Pedanik, PhD Student, Founder and CEO; Marko Uibu, Lecturer, Founder and Research Expert, both of University of Tartu; Kaie Koppel, Public Service Expert. All of Estonian Social Innovation Lab, Tartu, Estonia.
• Innovative Strategies of Development of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Kazakhstan: Examining State Policy during COVID-19, by Baurzhan Bokayev and Aiganym Issenova, both of Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan.
• Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education, by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen, reviewed by Anthony Iacovino, former professor, editor and private consultant, Toronto, Canada.
• Recipients of Canadian Governor-General Innovation Award: announced April 26 2022
• 2022 Journal Innovation Award: 2022 Journal Innovation Award: The 2022 Scholarly & Research Communication & Canadian Association of Learned Journals 4th Annual Award. Deadline May 31, 2022. Call for Nominees – 2022 SRC/CALJ 4th Annual Journal Innovation Award. Appel à candidatures – Le prix d’innovation pour les revues savantes 2022. Jrnl Innovn Award Francais
• Social Inventions, by Stuart Conger
• Top 100 Inventions Made in Canada
• List of Canadian inventions and discoveries
• Schuurman, Dimitri & Piret Tõnurist. 2016. Innovation in the Public Sector: Exploring the Characteristics and Potential of Living Labs and Innovation Labs. – OpenLivingLab Days 2016.
• GOVTRUST Summer School on A Multi-Level Perspective on Trust and Public Governance. Course relates to public governance, regulation, politics and technology.
  Programme includes sessions on:
  • Defining and theorising trust,
  • Research methods on trust,
  • Biological and economic foundations of interpersonal trust,
  • Trust-based governance within public organisations,
  • Trust and regulation,
  • Trust and communication in a digital era,
  • Trust and multi-level governance in the EU,
  • Trust and judicial governance.
  And includes:
  • A paper development workshop.
  • A half-day excursion to a government organisation.
  Location: University of Antwerp, Belgium. Lecturers include international speakers and Koen Verhoest, Frédérique Six, Esther van Zimmeren, Karolien Poels, Carolyn Declerck, Peter Bursens, Patricia Popelier. Please apply by April 30, 2022. For more information and programme details:
• Fuglsang, Lars, Anne Vorre Hansen, Ines Mergel, & Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk. 2021. Fuglsang, Lars, Anne Vorre Hansen, Ines Mergel, & Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk. 2021. Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review. Administrative Sciences, 11: 58.
• Cinar, Emre, Paul Trott & Christopher Simms. 2019. A systematic review of barriers to public sector innovation process. Public Management Review, 21(2): 264–290. Doi:
• De Vries, H.A., Bekkers, V.J.J.M., Tummers, L.G. 2014. Innovations in the Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda. Ottawa, Canada: IRSPM conference.
• Cole, Lindsay. 2021. A framework to conceptualize innovation purpose in public sector innovation labs., Policy Design and Practice
• Helle Vibeke Carstensen & Christian Bason. 2012. Powering collaborative policy innovation: Can innovation labs help? The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 17(1), 2012, article 4.
• OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
• 2022 ISPIM, Sponsored by RMIT University, Innovation Management Dissertation Award, The PhD research scientific panel selects three authors with best path-breaking dissertations from the field of innovation management. Runners-up receive EUR 1250 & three best authors receives EUR 2000 plus free attendance of ISPIM Conference (June 2022) Copenhagen. Submission deadline Feb. 18th 2022 https://www.ispim-innovation.com/dissertation-award
• No Master of Puppets: Leading Civil Servants in Collaborative Innovation, by Charlotte Van Dijck and Trui Steen, both of Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• Constructing a Joint University‒Municipality Platform for Networked Co-creation of Innovative Urban Solutions: A Norwegian Experience, by Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark; Hans Torvatn and Lisbeth Øyum, both of SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway.
• Defining, Distinguishing and Studying Public Sector Innovation and Change, by Eleanor D. Glor, Fellow, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto, Canada

2021

• Call for Papers, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  Special Issue: Religion and public administration in Asia Pacific: Guest Editor: Adrian Kay, The Australian National University
• Call for Book Proposals, Book Series: Critical Perspectives and Issues in Governance and Public Management
• E-PARCC Competition Call for Submissions. The Syracuse University Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) invites submissions for the E-PARCC Competition to further stimulate the creation of effective and innovative teaching cases and simulations. See attachment for details.
• How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, by Matt Ridley. HarperCollins 2020. We need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Ridley tells lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or in some cases failed. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about jet engines, search engines, coffee, potatoes, vaccines, mosquito nets, fertiliser, zero, dogs, farming, fire, fraudulent blood tests, copyright and even – a biological innovation – life itself. For social innovations – Stuart Conger, Social Innovations 2002
• Governor General’s Innovation Awards To celebrate excellence in innovation September to November 2021
• Canada Foundation for Innovation Funded Projects
• Innovation PaKSoM 2021 November 15-16 2021 Topics paper Submission dates Oct 24, 2021 Notes – 3rd Virtual International Conference: Knowledge Society-Managing Risks & Innovation
• Volume 26 Issue 2
• The Productivity-resilience nexus: What is the role of innovation? – OECD OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy) invite submissions to the special session “Productivity-Resilience Nexus: What is the Role of Innovation?” at the 6th Geography of Innovation Conference to be held at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) from 26th to 28th January 2022. Call for papers (deadline 5 September 2021).
• Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty, reviewed by Donald R. Officer, The Intention Coach, Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada.
• Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions, by Donald J. Savoie, reviewed by Donald R. Officer, The Intention Coach, Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada.
• Comment on Review Essay Public Policy Handbooks, by Donald R. Officer, The Intention Coach, Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada.
• Public Policy Handbooks, by Eleanor D. Glor, Fellow, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto and Editor-in-Chief, The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Ottawa, Canada.
• An Innovation Overlooked, yet Vital: The Institutional Arrangements of Democracy in Thought and Practice, a review of Arguing with Zombies, by Paul Krugman, essay by Jos C.N. Raadschelders, The Ohio State University, USA and University of Leiden, Netherlands.
• The Role of Universities in the Development of Public Sector Innovations, by Sergei Polbitsyn, School of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• Transforming E-government in Kazakhstan: A Citizen-Centric Approach, by Baurzhan Bokayev, Zhuldyz Davletbayeva, Aigerim Amirova and Zhanar Rysbekova, all of National School of Public Policy, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Zulfiya Torebekova, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA; and Gul Jussupova, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
• Creating Value in Public Services: The Struggle between Private and Public Interests? by Siv Magnussen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik and Rolf Ronning, both of The Centre for Innovation in Services, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway.
• The 10 most innovative education companies of 2021 (CFI) In a year of massive educational disruption, these companies found ways to keep students engaged.
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Resources for Canadian businesses ISED Improve Economy, investment, enhance Canada’s innovation performance, increase share of global trade with a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace.
• Australian Innovation System Monitor July 2021
• Climate Interactive is a tool developed by an independent, not-for-profit think-tank that grew out of MIT’s Sloan School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling, their simulations and insights help users see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change, inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food. Climate Interactive was named the top US Energy and Environment think tank by Prospect Magazine.
• Ontario Government Forest Sector Investment & Innovation Program Stage II Round 8 October 25 2021
• The Journal Scholarly & Research Communication SRC/CALJ Journal Innovation Award for 2021
• Canada free, automatic tax filing system for simple returns. Select the link below to view the approved list of free tax software models or a pay-what-you-want software models Cloud tax, Turbo tax, StudioTax, TaxTron etc.
• The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) February 2021 Is one of the top employers in the National Capital Region.
• The Canadian Association of Learned Journals and the Journal Scholarly & Research Communication SRC/CALJ Journal Innovation Award for 2021
• Women in the Tech Industry
• National Braille Press’s Touch of Genius $10,000 Prize for Innovation promotion of braille and tactile literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide, extended to March 12th 2021!
• Mixed responses: Councillors’ attitudes towards citizens’ participation, by Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland and Arto Haveri, Tampere University, Finland.
• Living Labs as an Innovation Tool for Public Value Creation: Possibilities and Pitfalls, by Anne Vorre Hansen, and Lars Fuglsang, both of Department of Business, Communication and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
• Design matters: Tensions between democratic quality and productive collaboration, Elizabeth Toft Kristjansen, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.
• Innovating local representative democracy: How citizens evaluate new roles of elected and non-elected representatives, by Bas Denters, Department of Public Administration, University of Twente, Twente; Hans Vollaard, Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht; and Hester van de Bovenkamp, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Rotterdam, all of the Netherland

2020

• Councillors’ attitudes to citizen participation in policymaking as a driver of, and barrier to, democratic innovation, by Mette Sønderskov, Department of Organisation, Leadership and Management, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
• International 30th Conference New Dates: Co-VAL & 30th RESER International Conference on Value co-creation, Innovation and Digital Transformation for Public Services, January 21st – 22nd 2021 virtually, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain).
• GOVTRUST Jan 8 2021: The YUFE consortium, of which the University of Antwerp is part, has vacancies for 7 post-docs in the area of European identity
• Canada to have free, automatic tax filing system for simple returns. Thirty-six countries, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, permit return-free filing for some taxpayers. Canada is to join them. Speech from the Throne, 2020.
• Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Faculty of Arts, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Faculty of Arts, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada.
• The Plague, by Albert Camus, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Faculty of Arts, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada.
• The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth, by Linda McQuaig, reviewed by Donald Officer, The Intention Coach, Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada.
• Theories of Social Innovation, by Danielle Logue, reviewed by David Barrows, semi-retired Guru, Ottawa, Canada.
• A Qualitative Study of Innovation Processes between Public and Private Actors regarding follow-up Procedures for Patients after Treatment and Rehabilitation in the Health Sector, Norway, by Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway and Victoria H. Batt-Rawden, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway.
• Sous les Pavés, l’Université : Renouer avec l’Innovation Collective pour Repenser nos Pratiques, par Philippe Dufort, professeur associé et Anahi Morales Hudon, professeure adjointe, les deux à l’École d’innovation sociale Élisabeth-Bruyère de l’Université Saint Paul, Ottawa, Canada.
• The role of soft skills to leverage co-creation in living labs: insights from Spain, by David Gago, Department of Economics, San Pablo CEU University and Luis Rubalcaba, Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
• Canadian Agriculture Living Laboratories Initiative: Collaborative Program
  The goal of the Living Laboratories Initiative is to establish a nation-wide network of sites where groups both in and outside of government can collaborate to co-develop, assess and implement innovative solutions to address persistent agri-environmental issues. This is a novel approach to agricultural innovation, with farmers working directly with scientists and other partners to conduct experiments right on their farms. Essentially, the goal is to get best-management practices and technologies into the hands of farmers faster by working together.
  As part of this initiative, there is a five-year, $10 million program called Living Laboratories Initiative: Collaborative Program (LLI:CP). The goal of this program is to establish collaborative innovation projects managed by not-for-profit organizations in identified ecosystems, called Living Laboratories. These Living Laboratories will be the first of a network within Canada.
  More information on the program, such as the application process, eligibility requirements, funding, deadlines and assessment criteria is available in the Applicant guide.What you could receive
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC), contribution for a project will not exceed $600,000 per year. The program ends March 31, 2023.
• Thirty-Six Countries, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, permit return-free filing for some taxpayers. Canada is to join them.
• Canadian Government: Recherche sites et publications
• Australian Innovation System Monitor September 2020
• Climate Interactive is a tool developed by an independent, not-for-profit think-tank that grew out of MIT’s Sloan School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling, their simulations and insights help users see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change, inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food. Climate Interactive was named the top US Energy and Environment think tank by Prospect Magazine.
• Readings for online Innovative Public Management course
• Beyond 2020 Canadian public service renewal
• Knowledge Representation Models Application and Fuzziness in Innovation Projects Assessment (Springer Link)
• Nesta 2020 Innovation (United Kingdom).
• Ontario Government Forest Sector Investment & Innovation Program
• USA House of Representatives majority Climate Crisis Action Plan, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, June 2020
• Brookfield Institute of innovation and entrepreneurship, Ryerson University, Canada
• Nesta, the Innovation Foundation (United Kingdom).
• Australian Government’s Public Sector Innovation site
• Brazilian Public Sector Innovation Week.
• Janus and Public-Sector Innovation, The Atlantic. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against government-employee unions may usher in a new golden age of public-sector innovation. (sarch the-other-side-of-janus)
• The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy, by Michael McGann, Emma Blomkamp, Jenny M. Lewis.
• United Nations Development Programme, Public Service Innovation Lab
• Government IT Innovation Awards
• Australian Public Sector Innovation Initiatives (The Madndarin Free Daily Newsletter) (Seach for: “APS 5 winners public sector innovation awards”, “Public Sector Innovation” & “Public Sector Innovation Initiatives”)
• Australian public sector innovation initiatives
• Federal, Provincial and Territorial Declaration on Public Sector Innovation. Federal, Provincial and Territorial Declaration on Public Sector Innovation. November 14, 2017, the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Clerks and Cabinet Secretaries signed a declaration, outlining the actions they will take to support innovation in the public sector across Canada.
• Innovation in the Public Sector: Linking Capacity and Leadership. Editors: V. Bekkers, J. Edelenbos, Steijn, B. (Eds.) Palgrave.
• Introduction: A Public Innovation Perspective on Change in Local Democracy, by Eva Sørensen and Signy Irene Vabo
• Administrators as Drivers of Democratic Innovations, by Asbjørn Røiseland, Nord University, Bodø, Norway and Signy Irene Vabo, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
• Understanding Participatory Innovations: A Multiple Streams Account of the Creation of Parents’ Councils in Swiss Schools, by Patricia Buser and Daniel Kübler, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• Strengthening Public Service Production, Administrative Problem Solving and Political Leadership through Co-creation of Innovative Public Value Outcomes? by Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing, all of Roskilde University, Denmark.
• Democratic Innovations in Dutch Local Government: Experimentation in Search of Strategy, by Harmen Binnema, Ank Michels and Paul `t Hart, all of Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Lieske van der Torre, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Hague, The Netherlands.
• OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation, May 2019.
• Public Sector Innovation: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Public Sector Innovation: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
• Call for Papers, Transatlantic Dialogue. Theme: Strategic Management of Public Sector Transformation: Enhancing Collaborative Governance and Co-Creation of Public Value. For those working on co-creation, collaborative governance, networks and partnerships, and issues in that context like innovation, performance, design, and leadership. TAD conference is June 10-12, 2020, Roskilde, Denmark. Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2020. Public innovation track chaired by Koen Verhoest and Jodi Sandfort.
• Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector, by Eva Sørensen. The Oxford Handbook of Governance, edited by David Levi-Faur.
• Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations, by Leisha DeHart-Davis, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
• 30 Great Ideas: Building Innovation Skills and Capacity for the Public Service Professional, by Ed Bernacki, reviewed by Donald R. Officer
• On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, by Naomi Klein, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
• Call for Papers, Annual Conference of IIAS study group on ‘Co-Production of Public Services’, May 19-20, 2020
• Social Innovation Policies: A Way Through Emerging Innovation Structures, by Martha Leticia Silva-Flores and Melisa Ladrón de Guevara-Jimenez
• John Rawls and The Evolution of Liberalism, by Howard A. Doughty
• Towards an Integrative Framework of Innovation Capacity, by Owen Boukamel & Yves Emery

2019

• Inland is a design and innovation lab within the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri).
• 2019 IPAC Innovative Management Award Winners: Call for Innovations 2020.
  Gold – Consumer E-Health, Government of Alberta
  Silver – ASD Advisory Services, New Brunswick
  Bronze – City of Vaughan, Fire and Rescue Service
• OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI): Call for innovations officially opens 14 October 2019. From that date onward, you can find instructions on how to submit your innovation case study at Call for Innovations 2020.
• The 5th Innovation in Public Services and Public Policy (PUBSIC) Conference, January 29-31, 2020, City of Stavanger, Norway.
• The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) Award for Innovative Public Management
• The Public Sector Innovation Network The Public Sector Innovation Network
• Australian Public Sector Innovation Show March 31, 2020
• Public sector innovation Executive MPA Public sector innovation Executive MPA Hertie School, European University of Social Sciences, CIVICA
• Public Service Innovation and Transformation United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Innovations in Tax Compliance: Conceptual Framework, World Bank, 2019
• Ed Bernacki reflects on the Canadian public sector innovation efforts
• Government of Canada innovation initiatives
• Canadian Deputy Minister’s Task Force on Innovation
• College Students on a Budget – Sustainability Guide
• OECD Embracing Innovation in Government: Global Trends 2019
• OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI): Call for innovations officially opens 14 October 2019 was extended to February 21 2020. Instructions on how to submit your innovation case study. (Call – OPSI)
• MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners – Power of Individual Creativity at: (Genius Grant Winners)
• 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Awards (Canada) (CGIA)
• National Braille Press’s Touch of Genius $10,000 Prize for Innovation promotion of braille and tactile literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide is quickly approaching, on January 10th 2020! (TOG)
• 5th Innovation in Public Services and Public Policy (PUBSIC) Conference Jan 29-31, 2020.
• Call for Papers International Conference on (Private Sector) Innovation and Management (IAM2019 Summer) Date: July 9-12, 2019. Venue: Hiroshima, Japan http://iam2019s.conf-online.org
• OECD. 2018 The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada. Paris, France: OECD Publishing
• OECD. 2018 Le Système d’innovation de la fonction publique du Canada. Paris, France : OECD Publishing
• Book of articles from The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal: Leading edge research in public sector innovation: Structure, dynamics, values and outcomes, edited by Eleanor D. Glor. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2018
• 1st World Congress on Women’s Health Innovations and Inventions (WHII): Addressing Unmet Needs:
• Scholarly & Research Communication Journal INNOVATION AWARD, Call for 2019 nominations, deadline April 30, 2019.
• Call for Papers Democratic Innovations: Responding to Great Challenges ECPR Feb 18 2019 General Conference University of Wroclaw, Poland
• Scholarly & Research Communication Journal INNOVATION AWARD, Call for 2019 nominations.
• 2019 ISPIM Innovation Dissertation Award 2019 ISPIM Innovation Dissertation Award For someone who has completed their PhD related to Innovation Management in 2018.
• New Calls for Papers 2019
• The National Braille Press’s Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation deadline is now accepting please entries, so apply before January 25th 2019 ! Help us spread the word.
• Call for Papers volume 25 issue 1 year 2020: Special Issue on Innovations in local representative democracy–Dilemmas and perspectives
• Canadian journal innovation award

2018

• News & Resources Volume 23 Issue 3:
• New Book of articles from The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal: Leading edge research in public sector innovation: Structure, dynamics, values and outcomes, edited by Eleanor D. Glor. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2018
• The National Braille Press’s Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation for 2019 is now accepting entries starting November 2018.
• The National Braille Press’s Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation deadline has been extended through January 31st! Help us spread the word.
• Kitchener, Canada Embraces Internet of Things with New Digital Innovation Lab A collection of articles from The Innovation Journal. Published by Peter Lang.
• Challenge Grant: The Government of the Future – Looking to 2040
• Leading-Edge Research in Public Sector Innovation: Structure, dynamics, values and outcomes, Eleanor D. Glor. A collection of articles from The Innovation Journal. Published by Peter Lang.
• The Canadian Scholarly and Research Communication Innovation Award deadline April 30 2018 award@src-online.ca

2017

• Canadian Governor General’s 2018 Innovation Awards
• Prix du Gouverneur général canadien pour l’innovation

2016 News & Resources Volume 21 Issue 1

2015 News & Resources Volume 20 Issue 1 & Issue 3

• Volume 20 Issue 1 is dedicated to International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month

2014

• Links to Volume 19 Issue 3
• Ethics of Innovation for Public Service Professionals: by Gerald Andrews Emison (peer reviewed article)
• The Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Government and Nonprofit Organizations, by James Svara, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (book review)

2013 Volume 18 Links Issue 2 & Issue 3 & French Issue 2

• Editors: The Innovation Journal is seeking a volunteer Discussion Papers editor.
• Thank you to the other editors: Ken Russell, Howard Doughty, Sanni Yaya, Ian Roberge, and the new Case Studies Editor, Susan Paddock of the University of Wisconsin.
• Calls for Papers: The deadline for receipt of papers for the special issue on Complexity and Innovation is June 1, 2008. We are also interested in papers on Innovations involving Women in Arab Countries, Creativity, Innovations in Ethics, and Innovations in Local Government. As always, we are interested in articles in English et en français and papers on any public sector innovation topics for open issues. For more information, see the French link Calls for Papers.
• Sponsorship Opportunities: Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief, Eleanor Glor, at eglor@magma.ca.
• Indexing TIJ: Part of the process in the development of any journal’s visibility and legitimacy is inclusion in Thomson’s ISI index. Thomson only accepts about 20% of the journals that apply for inclusion each year. We could do with a little help to increase our odds of success. Thomson has a website where you can recommend journals for inclusion. The address of the site is: http://scientific.thomson.com/forms/isi/journalrec/ (Thomson Scientific became Thomson Corporation now called Thomson Reuters Corporation )
• Would you mind taking a moment to visit this site and completing the short recommendation form there? To help you do that, the publisher is Eleanor Glor, and I think a unique feature is that TIJ focuses on innovation in the public sector and offers separate sections for practitioner-oriented and scholarly-style papers. If readers and contributors to TIJ complete this form, then our chances of TIJ being included increase. If TIJ is included in this index it should be taken up by more libraries around the world, therefore increasing its readership (or at least its visibility to its potential readership). Many thanks for your assistance.

2012 Volume 1 2, 3

• Editors. The Innovation Journal is seeking volunteer Discussion Papers and La Revue de l’innovation editors.
• Calls for Papers. The deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for the special issues on Innovation in Developing Countries and Poverty Alleviation through Innovation in Developing Countries is March 31, 2007. As well, The Innovation Journal is interested in publishing theme issues on Client Empowerment (deadline June 30, 2007), Complexity and Innovation, Innovations in Learning, Creativity, Rules Innovation, Technology and Innovation, Innovations in Leadership in Public Administration, Innovations in Arab Countries, Innovation in Local Government and Innovations in Ethics. As always, we are interested in articles in English et en français and papers on other topics for open issues. For more information, see the French link Calls for Papers.
• Other Conferences. Call for Papers International Biennial Seminar COMPLEXITY-2008, Havana, January 15-18th, 2008. mailto:complejidad@filosofia.cuwww.complexity-cuba.org
• Sponsorship Opportunites. Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief, Eleanor Glor, at eglor@magma.ca.
• Indexing TIJ. Part of the process in the development of any journal’s visibility and legitimacy is inclusion in Thomson’s ISI index. Thomson only accepts about 20% of the journals that apply for inclusion each year. We could do with a little help to increase our odds of success. Thomson has a website where you can recommend journals for inclusion. The address of the site is: http://scientific.thomson.com/forms/isi/journalrec/
• Would you mind taking a moment to visit this site and completing the short recommendation form there? To help you do that, the publisher is Eleanor Glor, and I think a unique feature is that TIJ focuses on innovation in the public sector and offers separate sections for practitioner and scholarly-style papers. If readers and contributors to TIJ complete this form, then our chances of TIJ being included increase. If TIJ is included in this index it should be taken up by more libraries around the world, therefore increasing its readership (or at least its visibility to its potential readership) substantially. Many thanks for your assistance.

2011 Volume 1 News:

News Resources/Ressources Volume 16 Issue 1

• Editors. The Innovation Journal is seeking volunteer Discussion Papers and La Revue de l’innovation editors.
• Calls for Papers. The Innovation Journal is interested in publishing special theme issues on Complexity and Innovation, Innovations in Learning, Poverty Alleviation through Innovation, Rules Innovation, Client Empowerment, Technology and Innovation, and Innovation in Local Government. As always, we are interested in articles in English and en français (in French) and papers on other topics for open issues. For more information, see the French link Calls for Papers.
• Calls for Papers. Issue on Innovations in Learning. A new Call for Papers.
• Sponsorship Opportunites. Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief.
• The Innovation Journal will be continuing to publish special issues, prepared by guest editors. Please submit papers to the Editor-in-Chief.

2011 Volume 2 News:

• With sadness we announce the passing of Shun’ichi Furukawa, member of The Innovation Journal Editorial Board and Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
• The Innovation Journal is seeking volunteer Discussion Papers and La Revue de l’innovation editors.
• Calls for Papers. Issue on Development and the poor in developing countries: The new role of innovation. A new Call for Papers.
• Calls for Papers. The Innovation Journal is interested in publishing special theme issues on Complexity and Innovation, Development and the poor in developing countries: The new role of innovation , Rules Innovation, Client Empowerment, Technology and Innovation, and Innovation in Local Government. As always, we are interested in articles in English et en français and papers on other topics for open issues. For more information, see the French link Calls for Papers.
• Sponsorship Opportunites. Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief, Eleanor Glor, at eglor@magma.ca.
• Indexing TIJ. Part of the process in the development of any journal’s visibility and legitimacy is inclusion in Thomson’s ISI index. Thomson only accepts about 20% of the journal’s that apply for inclusion each year. We could do with a little help to increase our odds of success. Thomson have a website where you can recommend journals for inclusion. The address of the site is:
• http://scientific.thomson.com/forms/isi/journalrec/
• Would you mind taking a moment to visit this site and completing the short recommendation form there? To help you do that, the publisher is Eleanor Glor, and I think a unique feature is that TIJ focuses on innovation in the public sector and offers separate sections for practitioner and academic papers. If readers and contributors to TIJ complete this form, then our chances of TIJ being included increase. If TIJ is included in this index it should be taken up by more libraries around the world, therefore increasing its readership (or at least its visibility to its potential readership) substantially. Many thanks for your assistance.

2011 Volume 3 News:

• Editors. The Innovation Journal is seeking volunteer Discussion Papers and La Revue de l’innovation editors.
• Calls for Papers. The Innovation Journal is interested in publishing special theme issues on Complexity and Innovation, Development and the poor in developing countries: The new role of innovation , Rules Innovation, Client Empowerment, Technology and Innovation, and Innovation in Local Government. As always, we are interested in articles in English et en français and papers on other topics for open issues. For more information, see the French link Calls for Papers.
• Sponsorship Opportunites. Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief, Eleanor Glor, at eglor@magma.ca.
• Indexing TIJ. Part of the process in the development of any journal’s visibility and legitimacy is inclusion in Thomson’s ISI index. Thomson only accepts about 20% of the journals that apply for inclusion each year. We could do with a little help to increase our odds of success. Thomson has a website where you can recommend journals for inclusion. The address of the site is:
• http://scientific.thomson.com/forms/isi/journalrec/
• Would you mind taking a moment to visit this site and completing the short recommendation form there? To help you do that, the publisher is Eleanor Glor, and I think a unique feature is that TIJ focuses on innovation in the public sector and offers separate sections for practitioner and scholarly-style papers. If readers and contributors to TIJ complete this form, then our chances of TIJ being included increase. If TIJ is included in this index it should be taken up by more libraries around the world, therefore increasing its readership (or at least its visibility to its potential readership) substantially. Many thanks for your assistance.

2010 Volume 1 News:

• Voluntary Planning…a Citizens’ Policy Forum, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Citizen Empowerment links

2010 Volume 2 News:

• Calls for Papers:
• The Innovation Journal will be continuing to publish special issues, prepared by guest editors. Please submit papers to the Editor-in-Chief for a list of topics.
• Sponsorship Opportunites
  Sponsorship opportunities are available for The Innovation Journal. Contact the Editor-in-Chief. Eleanor Glor Editor in Chief

2010 Volume 2 Announcements:

• Calls for Papers:
• The Innovation Journal will be continuing to publish special issues, prepared by guest editors. Please submit papers to the Editor-in-Chief.

2009

• Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue on Employee Empowerment

1995 – 2008

• News Archived in 2008