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Dynamic public sector capabilities: towards a new synthesis // Capacitações dinâmicas do setor público: rumo a uma nova síntese

Kattel, Rainer; (2023) Dynamic public sector capabilities: towards a new synthesis // Capacitações dinâmicas do setor público: rumo a uma nova síntese. Revista do Servico Publico , 74 (1) pp. 12-41. 10.21874/rsp.v74i1.9949. Green open access

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how important public sector capabilities and capabilities are to react to crises and reconfigure existing policies and implementation practices. Before the pandemic, policymakers were increasingly turning their attention to challenge-driven innovation policies in order to address climate emergencies and other “wicked” societal challenges. Such a "normative turn" also presupposes the existence of what can be called dynamic capabilities in the public sector. This article offers a new synthesis of how to conceptualize dynamic capabilities in the public sector. The article summarizes existing state capacity, public sector innovation capacity and the literature on dynamic capabilities. Using three brief case studies (the UK Government Digital Service, Sweden's Vinnova and the city of Barcelona), the article discusses the origins and constituent elements (sense-making, connection, modeling) of dynamic capabilities. The article also discusses how dynamic capabilities could be evaluated.

Type: Article
Title: Dynamic public sector capabilities: towards a new synthesis // Capacitações dinâmicas do setor público: rumo a uma nova síntese
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.21874/rsp.v74i1.9949
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.21874/rsp.v74i1.9949
Language: Portuguese
Additional information: Copyright (c) 2023 Public Service Magazine. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . - RSP adopts the Creative Commons (CC) Attribution – Non-Commercial Use (BY-NC) license. - The license allows others to remix, adapt and create licensed work, with commercial use prohibited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
Keywords: State capacity, dynamic capabilities, innovation in the public sector, evaluation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187069
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