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Innovation bureaucracies: How agile stability creates the entrepreneurial state

Kattel, Rainer; Drechsler, Wolfgang; Karo, Erkki; (2019) Innovation bureaucracies: How agile stability creates the entrepreneurial state. (Working Paper Series: IIPP WP 2019-12). UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper, we offer to redefine what entrepreneurial states are: these are states that are capable of unleashing innovations, and wealth resulting from those innovations, and of maintaining socio-political stability at the same time. Innovation bureaucracies are constellations of public organisations that deliver such agile stability. Such balancing acts make public bureaucracies unique in how they work, succeed and fail. The paper looks at the historical evolution of innovation bureaucracy by focusing on public organisations dealing with knowledge and technology, economic development and growth. We briefly show how agility and stability are delivered through starkly different bureaucratic organisations; hence, what matters for capacity and capabilities are not individual organisations, but organisational configurations and how they evolve.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Innovation bureaucracies: How agile stability creates the entrepreneurial state
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
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Language: English
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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/10195937
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