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Innovation and the Public Service: Facilitating Inclusive Industrial and Social Development

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Public servants involved in South Africa’s innovation policy and programmes are under pressure to adopt more agile and open ways of working to support industrial and social innovation, especially in relation to achieving inclusive development outcomes. Implementing these practices in public sector departments is a challenge. Whilst innovation agencies were established to play a more independent mediating role between the private sector and government, they operate within similar legal frameworks and depend on the same political principals for funding as their parent departments. As a result, there is significant friction between expected innovation-enabling practices and established bureaucratic procedures. Instead of calling for the de-bureaucratisation of the public sector, this chapter seeks to highlight the significant diversity in public organisations and officials involved in stimulating industrial and social innovation; the reasons why certain procedures and practices are in place; and the need to develop targeted interventions that can improve specific routines, capacities and legitimacy at organisational and individual levels as a way to achieve innovation outcomes

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  • Plantinga, Paul, 2021. "Innovation and the Public Service: Facilitating Inclusive Industrial and Social Development," SocArXiv qcdjg, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qcdjg
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