Free online event
Why and how innovations need bureaucracy
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Wednesday, Apr 12, 2023
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You’ll learn how to:
- Understand how 21st-century governments can combine agility and stability
- Recognise the importance of bureaucracy for innovations
- Identify how a stable public sector can adapt and innovate
Speakers
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Speaker resources
Apolitical resources
- How bureaucracy fuels innovation, article by Miki Stricker-Talbot
- How misuse of innovation rankings can hurt innovation, article by Andrew Ford
- What is government innovation? article by Jennifer Guay
- Revolutionising public innovation in Brazil, article by Evisson Fernandes de Lucena and Breno Alencar Gonçalves
- Designing in a bureaucracy, article by Nicole Anand
Innovations need bureaucracy. It’s an uncommon argument in a world of increasingly fast-paced technological changes, where bureaucracy is often seen to be the enemy to progress.
But meeting the challenges we face today requires the stability of government as much as the agility and adaptability of innovations.
Watch this free online workshop with Rainer Kattel as he discusses his latest book, How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy. You’ll learn about the concept of the entrepreneurial state and explore the meaning of agile stability for government.
Who should watch:
This workshop is for any public servant or policymaker, at any level, who wants to learn more about bureaucracy and innovation and explore the concept of the ‘entrepreneurial state’
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Speakers
Rainer Kattel
Author, How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy | Professor of Innovation and Public Governance, UCL
United Kingdom
Rainer Kattel, Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. His research interests include also public sector innovation, digital transformation in the public sector and financialization. His recent books include The Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (edited with Erik Reinert and Jayati Gosh; Elgar, 2016) and How do build an Entrepreneurial State. Why Innovation needs Bureaucracy (with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo; Yale, 2022). In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy.
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