Description

Innovation provides five in-depth studies on the "state" of innovation in government today. Jonathan Walters analyzes what he has learned from studying winners of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy School Innovations in Government awards program. Sandford Borins examines the five building blocks of innovation. Janet Vinzant Denhardt and Robert Denhardt tell us how Phoenix created a culture of innovation within city government. William Eimicke studied San Diego County, California to find out how innovative programs can be implemented in a large county government. Scott Tarry presents five case studies of metropolitan airport authorities and how they attempted to foster innovation.

From these case studies, Mark A. Abramson and Ian D. Littman discuss what we know about innovation and what we have learned about fostering, implementing, and replicating it. They also discuss the relationship between the innovator and innovation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What Do We Know About Innovation
Chapter 2 Understanding Innovation
Chapter 3 The Challenge of Innovating in Government
Chapter 4 Creating a Culture of Innovation
Chapter 5 San Diego County's Innovation Program
Chapter 6 Innovation in the Administration of Public Airports

Product details

Published Mar 04 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9780742522664
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 229 x 147 mm
Series IBM Center for the Business of Government
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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