Public Administration and Innovation
grouped into two major categories of skills:
● strategic skills: long-term view; ability to identify and even
anticipate market trends; willingness and ability to collect, process, and
assimilate technological and economic information;
● organisational skills: taste for and mastery of risk; internal co-
operation between the various operational departments, and external co-
operation with public research, consultancies, customers and supplier;
involvement of the whole of the firm in the process of change, and
investment in human resources.”
(- European Commission (1996), Green Paper on Innovation, Bulletin of the
European Union, Supplement 5/95, Luxembourg. In the Oslo manual (2005):
http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/2367580.pdf)
Innovation strategies: proactive, active, reactive, passive
Innovation audit: some key focus areas