Public Innovation and Digital Transformation

Hannele Väyrynen, Nina Helander, Harri Jalonen, Hannele Väyrynen, Nina Helander, Harri Jalonen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000686432
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book addresses the fascinating relationship of these two contemporary topics and explores the role of digital transformation in promoting public innovation.

This edited collection includes examples of innovations that emerge suddenly, practices for processing innovations, and the requirements for transformation from innovation to the "new normal". Acknowledging that public innovation refers to the development and realization of new and creative ideas that challenge conventional wisdom and disrupt the established practices within a specific context, expert contributions from international scholars explore and illustrate the various activities that are happening in the world of multiple digitalization opportunities. The content covers public administration, technical and business management, human, social, and future sciences, paying attention to the interaction between public and private sectors to utilize digitalization in order to facilitate public innovation.

This timely book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of technology and innovation management, as well as knowledge management, public service management and administration.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• 1 Avenues for public actors to enable and promote innovating and innovation
• 2 Digital co-creation: Mission (im)possible?
• 3 Social impacts of digital platforms: A can of worms in governing the hybridity of Airbnb
• 4 Data-driven logic transforming public innovations
• 5 Artificial intelligence and public innovations
• 6 Data-driven value creation in digitalizing public service
• 7 Big data visualizations for systems thinking in public innovation
• 8 E-construction: Public innovation platform
• 9 Driving organizational digital transformation through innovation labs
• 10 Future avenues of digital transformation: Next steps?
• Index