Innovations in governance as an emerging research agenda -- Innovations in governance: some illustrative and challenging examples -- Preliminary considerations -- Five ways in which these innovations are different -- Conclusion: innovations in governance as a challenge to innovation theory

This article explores a special class of innovations innovations in governance and develops an analytical schema for characterizing and evaluating them. To date, the innovation literature has focused primarily on the private rather than the public sector, and on innovations which improve organizational performance through product and process innovations rather than public sector innovations which seek to improve social performance through re-organizations of cross-sector decision-making, financing and production systems.