Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study

This qualitative longitudinal digital diary study explores public sector creativity in practice, analysing servants’ ideas, terms of type and magnitude, what practices servants apply coming up with these ideas initially triggered their creativity. Contrasting extant research assumptions, the findings indicate that working executive agencies are creative, generating a diversity by applying range including expressions autonomous radical However, also underscore pragmatic nature is focused on keeping things running: incremental, practical reactive.