"While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management. While 'results-oriented' public management may be here to stay, scholars and practitioners are now shifting their attention to...

1. Collaboration and design : new tools for public innovation / Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing -- 2. Necessity as the mother of reinvention : discourses of innovation in local government / Steven Griggs and Helen Sullivan -- 3. Reconstructing bureaucracy for service innovation in the...