Public governance is one of the most important hot topics in the world of public administration. It depicts the profound changes both in government and public services caused by both external pressures and internal tensions. Administrative and bureaucratic hierarchies are being transformed into complex settings of public governance. Our question in this book is how these governance processes and structures should be changed in order to achieve better results from social, political and economic points of view. This is where ‘innovations’, another buzzword of our time, comes into the picture. We provide a contextual view for innovations in public governance in which the main purpose is to introduce innovations which make a real difference in public governance.

February 12, 2011, in Tampere, Finland and Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Editors

Ari-Veikko, Anttiroiko Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama