The public sector's role in innovation is explored in cogent detail in an important study that
reveals the complexities benefits and pitfalls of the innovative state in action. The authors
all noted experts in the field examine the different approaches that have been taken by
governments in Europe the United States and Asia to demonstrate how innovative
bureaucracies--organizations designing and implementing a wide range of policies conducive to
innovation--function succeed or fail. Kattel Drechsler and Karo advance the argument that
the methods by which policy choices are made and implemented are as important as the policies
themselves and they offer strategies for overcoming financial and political impediments to
change. An essential roadmap for designing evaluating and implementing governmental policies
of innovation this unique volume illuminates the key challenges facing innovation
bureaucracies in the future.
