Public Innovation Through

Collaboration and Design

Edited by Christopher Ansell and

Jacob Torfing

Routledge
R Taylor & Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Contents

List offigures xi
List of tables xii
Notes on contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xviii

1 Collaboration and design: new tools for public Innovation 1

CHRISTOPHER ANSELL AND JACOB TORFING

2 Necessity as the mother of reinvention: discourses of

innovation in local government 19
STEVEN GRIGGS AND HELEN SULLIVAN

3 Reconstructing bureaucracy for service: innovation in the

governance era 41
ROBERT AGRANOFF

4 The complexity of governance: challenges for public sector

innovation 70
SUSANNE BOCH WALDORFF, LONE S0DERKVIST KRISTENSEN
AND BETINA VIND EBBESEN

5 The impact of collaboration on innovative projects: a study

of Dutch water management 89
NANNY BRESSERS

6 Understanding innovative regional collaboration:

metagovernance and boundary objects as mechanisms 106
STIG MONTIN, MAGNUS JOHANSSON AND
JOAKIM FORSEMALM
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7 The importance of joint schemas and brokers in promoting
collaboration for Innovation 125
BARBARA GRAY AND HONG REN

8 Collaborative networks and Innovation:

the negotiation-management nexus 148
ROBYN KEAST AND JENNIFER WATERHOUSE

9 Innovative leadership through networks 170

CATRIEN TERMEER AND SIBOUT NOOTEBOOM

10 Designing collaborative policy innovation: lessons from a

Danisb municipality 188
ANNIKA AGGER AND EVA S0RENSEN

11 Design attitude as an innovation catalyst 209

CHRISTIAN BASON

12 Collaborating on design - designing collaboration 229

CHRISTOPHER ANSELL AND JACOB TORFING

Index 240