OECD Public Governance Reviews Tackling Policy Challenges Through Public Sector Innovation A Strategic Portfolio Approach

OECD Public Governance Reviews Tackling Policy Challenges Through Public Sector Innovation A Strategic Portfolio Approach
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2022-11-23
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ISBN: 9264768521

This report discusses how steering innovation investment in public sector organisations through a portfolio approach can help governments respond to the multi-faceted challenges they face. Portfolio management is a well-known device in the financial sector, allowing for dynamic decision-making processes involving regular reviews of activity and ensuring a coherent distribution of resources among strategic options.

Tackling Policy Challenges Through Public Sector Innovation

Tackling Policy Challenges Through Public Sector Innovation
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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ISBN: 9789264464278

This report discusses how steering innovation investment in public sector organisations through a portfolio approach can help governments respond to the multi-faceted challenges they face. Portfolio management is a well-known device in the financial sector, allowing for dynamic decision-making processes involving regular reviews of activity and ensuring a coherent distribution of resources among strategic options. The report illustrates how this approach can be applied by public sector organisations to reap a variety of benefits, including avoiding innovation fragmentation and single-point solutionism; tackling risk aversion and learning at the portfolio level; identifying synergies among projects and activities; building value chains among projects and programmes; and layering activities connected to complex reforms. The report also discusses the type of innovation investments or facets a portfolio can help to steer and what these look like in practice.

OECD Public Governance Reviews The Public Governance of Anticipatory Innovation Ecosystems in Latvia Exploring Applications in Key Sectors

OECD Public Governance Reviews The Public Governance of Anticipatory Innovation Ecosystems in Latvia Exploring Applications in Key Sectors
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre:
ISBN: 926470650X

This report presents a case study of applying the OECD anticipatory innovation governance framework to develop and manage anticipatory innovation ecosystems as vehicles for knowledge generation, innovation governance and co-ordinated action to achieve policy goals. Part I establishes the case for anticipatory innovation ecosystems and sets out how they can be governed through a multi-level approach.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Strengthening the Innovative Capacity of the Public Sector of Latvia

OECD Public Governance Reviews Strengthening the Innovative Capacity of the Public Sector of Latvia
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2023-10-10
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ISBN: 9264966900

The assessment report explores the innovative capacity of the Latvian public sector to understand how innovation can be better supported and leveraged to improve the public sector's effectiveness and impact. It provides an evidence base for the development of a public sector innovation strategy and action plan.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Global Trends in Government Innovation 2023

OECD Public Governance Reviews Global Trends in Government Innovation 2023
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2023-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264631119

In the face of what has increasingly been referred to as an ongoing “permacrisis”, governments must cope with and respond to emerging threats while already grappling with longstanding issues such as climate change, digital disruption and low levels of trust. In this context, understanding new approaches and spreading successful ideas has never been more important.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Governing for Sustainable Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa

OECD Public Governance Reviews Governing for Sustainable Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2024-10-21
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ISBN: 9264923160

Cross-cutting global and regional challenges have triggered or reinforced efforts by government in the Middle East and North Africa to undertake public governance reforms. These reforms aim to build sustainable and resilient administrations that better meet development objectives and citizens’ expectations. To support these efforts, the report looks at developments in key areas of public governance in the Middle East and North Africa over the past decade. It discusses governments’ strategic commitments, governance arrangements, capacities and practices to implement public governance reforms to achieve four main objectives: (1) growing sustainably; (2) spending public resources efficiently; (3) delivering services effectively; and (4) promoting open and inclusive societies. The report provides general strategic orientations and identifies areas of opportunity that can be adapted to different contexts, needs and priorities.

Digital Technologies and Public Procurement

Digital Technologies and Public Procurement
Author: Albert Sanchez-Graells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2024-01-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019263660X

The digital transformation of the public sector has accelerated. States are experimenting with technology, seeking more streamlined and efficient digital government and public services. However, there are significant concerns about the risks and harms to individual and collective rights under new modes of digital public governance. Several jurisdictions are attempting to regulate digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, however regulatory effort primarily concentrates on technology use by companies, not by governments. The regulatory gap underpinning public sector digitalisation is growing. As it controls the acquisition of digital technologies, public procurement has emerged as a 'regulatory fix' to govern public sector digitalisation. It seeks to ensure through its contracts that public sector digitalisation is trustworthy, ethical, responsible, transparent, fair, and (cyber) safe. However, in Digital Technologies and Public Procurement: Gatekeeping and Experimentation in Digital Public Governance, Albert Sanchez-Graells argues that procurement cannot perform this gatekeeping role effectively. Through a detailed case study of procurement digitalisation as a site of unregulated technological experimentation, he demonstrates that relying on 'regulation by contract' creates a false sense of security in governing the transition towards digital public governance. This leaves the public sector exposed to the 'policy irresistibility' that surrounds hyped digital technologies. Bringing together insights from political economy, public policy, science, technology, and legal scholarship, this thought-provoking book proposes an alternative regulatory approach and contributes to broader debates of digital constitutionalism and digital technology regulation.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Anticipatory Innovation Governance Model in Finland Towards a New Way of Governing

OECD Public Governance Reviews Anticipatory Innovation Governance Model in Finland Towards a New Way of Governing
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-10-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264491414

This report examined how Finland has been incorporating anticipatory functions within its governance system to deal with complex and future challenges in a systemic way. The report applies a new model of anticipatory innovation governance (AIG), developed by the OECD, addressing a considerable gap in prior knowledge and guidance on how governments prepare for unknowable futures.