Provides a systematic overview, analysis, framework, research agenda, and strategic directions for the study of public sector innovation. The authors discuss: how public organizations and public sector employees can innovate, barriers and impediments, governments' role for innovation, sources of innovation, types of innovation, ethics.

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. He is also affiliated with the Executive Education at the National University of Singapore, the Institute for Future Government at Yonsei University, the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University, and Arizona State University.

1. Introduction; 2. What is public sector innovation?; 3. Public versus private; 4. The context of public sector innovation; 5. Innovation typologies; 6. Why public sector innovation?; 7. Drivers and conditions for innovation; 8. Sources of knowledge and collaborative innovation; 9. Barriers to public sector innovation; 10. National systems of innovation and market and government failure; 11. Outcomes of public sector innovation; 12. Ethics and public sector innovation; 13. Conclusions; References.