• DOI:10.1108/14601060710828817
• Corpus ID: 153592317

Evaluating an Australian public policy organization's innovation capacity

@article{OConnor2007EvaluatingAA,
  title={Evaluating an Australian public policy organization's innovation capacity},
  author={Allan O’Connor and Goran Roos and Tony Vickers‐Willis},
  journal={European Journal of Innovation Management},
  year={2007},
  volume={10},
  pages={532-558}
}

• Allan O’Connor, G. Roos, Tony Vickers‐Willis
• Published 9 October 2007
• Business, Political Science
• European Journal of Innovation Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide explicit thinking about the organizational elements that support or hinder innovation in the government sector as it increasingly faces demand for innovative solutions to policy areas. The paper aims to present the development and findings of an evaluative case method conducted for an Australian state government department's organizational innovation program.Design/methodology/approach – The evaluative case study was developed and conducted in two phases. First, an intellectual capital conceptual framework was applied to four independently sourced and discreet case organizations to represent multiple exemplars of innovation capacity building. These exemplars were suspended from their context in order to identify essential elements of the innovation capacity development process which in turn were then applied in phase two to the Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF), a Victorian (Australia) public policy organization.Findings – The case raises critical d...