“The convergence of shifting CSR trends, untapped NGO value, and pressing development challenges holds tremendous potential for driving social impact and business innovation. … The public sector and civil society are increasingly looking to the private sector to play a larger role. This is particularly
“This issue of The Innovation Journal endeavors to investigate when and how multi-actor collaboration can enhance public innovation. In this brief introduction we shall first look at the main differences between private and public innovation and the mounting interest in public innovation before presenting the
“The importance and challenges of networking and knowledge sharing for attacking wicked problems have been aptly described by Weber and Khademian in their provocative PAR essay, ‘Wicked Problems, Knowledge Challenges, and Collaborative Capacity Builders in Network Settings’ (March/April 2008). We argue in this essay, however,
“Pittsburgh’s innovation economy is strong and growing, but city leaders can do more with its existing assets to compete globally and capitalize on the region’s growing innovation clusters, according to [this] report from the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking
“In this report, developed with support from Facebook, we focus on an approach to extract public value from social media data that we believe holds the greatest potential: data collaboratives. Data collaboratives are an emerging form of public-private partnership in which actors from different sectors
“Recently in the U.S., Public-Private Partnerships (P3) have been increasingly utilized as a mechanism for closing the gap between revenues and expenditures in transportation mega-projects, however public perception remains a major challenge to successful utilization. Recent projects have run into issues with public perception particularly
“With news headlines increasingly dominated by images of extreme weather events across the world, from storms, floods, and landslides to extreme temperatures, droughts, and wildfires, there is little doubt that such events are increasing in magnitude and frequency as a result of climate change. There
“Many leaders in business, civil society and government realize that for the world’s economy to fully derive the value inherent in technological innovation, a robust, coordinated system of global cyber resilience is essential to effectively mitigate the risk of cyberattacks. This view is beginning to
“The PPP model is no stranger to debate, especially since the global financial crisis transformed the economic status quo, triggering an unprecedented focus on financial management and the cost efficiency of government procurement. Globally, the PPP model is at a pivotal junction. Countries with established
“As Governments face the reality of shrinking budgets, they need to consider new and more efficient ways to deliver public services. The current models alone including public private partnerships will not meet the growing demand for future services. New models relying more heavily on the