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Innovating within existing public sector rules, processes and procedures (The Innovation Imperative in the Public Sector: Staging an Agenda for Action)
Rules, processes and procedures enable large organisations to accomplish co-ordinated tasks in standardised ways, and therefore have a significant impact on the kind of work and innovation that an organisation can undertake. Clarifying and simplifying rules and regulations, and ensuring a minimum of red tape to ensure compliance with important protocol can open up space for innovation and ensure that employees share a collective understanding of where that space lies. The rules that control spending also have a strong impact on the ability for organisations to resource innovation, with more budget agility assumed to provide more opportunity to finance innovation projects. Additionally, the project management approaches themselves are processes that can either support or hinder effective innovation in public sector organisations. Various experimental approaches to project development that include piloting and prototyping may challenge traditional approaches to organisational transformation and require a different regulatory framework to reap potential innovation benefits.

Country Reports

- Business Start-up Programme, Austria (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Economic stability and quality of institutions in the Netherlands (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in the Netherlands), 2015
- Assessment and policy options (Investing in Youth: Latvia), 2015
- Women in the Labour Market, Croatia (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Australian agricultural policy: Structural change, sustainability and innovation (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Australia), 2015
Thematic Reports

- Containing educational costs (Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation), 2015
- Research on open educational resources (OER) and the challenge of the extended lifecycle (Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation), 2015
- Alternative debt as a source of finance for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments), 2015
- Concepts and definitions for identifying R&D (Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development), 2015
- Applying the framework for innovation (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2015