Enacting the entrepreneurial self: Public-private innovation as an actualization of a neoliberal market dispositive

Drawing on Foucault’s writings power, neoliberalism, and the dispositive, this article analyses identity politics that is immanent in a new collaborative practice between public private sector called public-private innovation (PPI). We argue PPI an element actualizing neoliberal market dispositive through inclining subjects to work themselves order actualize their entrepreneurial self, thereby disconnecting them from service identity. The construction of two narratives supports constitution political space PPI: fiery soul narrative need narrative. An important part individual entrepreneur. Rather than expressing governance sector, actualizes marketizes services as agenda. distracts marketization leaves no other for public-sector employees constitute within contradictory feelings enthusiasm anxiety, determination self-blame, responsibility inadequacy, bustle confusion.