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Innovation and its Contribution to Improvement: A Review for Policy-makers, Policy Advisers, Managers and Researchers

Innovation and its Contribution to Improvement: A Review for Policy-makers, Policy Advisers, Managers and Researchers

Published 19 May 2006
Type(s) Research and statistics
Site Local government
Product code 06 LGFG 03884/a (executive summary) and 06 LGFG 03884/b (full report)
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Summary

This review provides a framework for understanding how innovation can lead to improvement in the public sector.

Specifically, it adddresses:

  • what innovation is; how it can be fostered, nurtured and sustained
  • the links between innovation and improvement
  • how innovation can be evaluated in terms of public value
  • the processes of knowledge creation and transfer which underlie the sharing of good practice


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