Public management, policy capacity, innovation and development

Crowdsourcing Public Policy Innovation

Governments in developing countries usually fail to generate innovative solutions to public policy issues or they are not even conscious of the high potential they have if they could open their problems for innovative solutions. Innovation at the public level is limited because of organizational and cultural reasons, mainly because government officials do not have the right incentives to do so....

Public Policy and Pharmaceutical Innovation

Historically, new drug introductions have played a central role in medical progress and the availability of cost-effective therapies. Nevertheless, public policy toward pharmaceuticals has been characterized in recent times by increasingly stringent regulatory controls, shorter effective patent terms, and increased encouragement of generic product usage. This has had an adverse effect on the in...

Drug innovation and public policy: some speculations.

Innovation in Public Management

The New Public Management (NPM) revolution is being challenged by ideas and practices (re)establishing a focus on social factors in public administration. This paper presents some Australian experience of the move to balance the market instruments of NPM by bringing community oriented instruments and community based knowledge upon which these depend into public policy and management.

Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) as Mission-oriented Innovation Policy