Entrepreneurial and Innovative Practices in Public Institutions

This volume discusses the importance of adopting entrepreneurial and innovation practices in the public sector, as mechanisms for detecting, dealing with and including citizens' social needs, with a reflection on positive determination of their quality of life. It focuses on critical reflection and rethinking the articulation between the dimensions of transformation - entrepreneurship and innovation - of New Public Management (NPM). In this way the book contributes to deepening knowledge about the implications of this change in the organizational paradigm of the public sector for citizens' quality of life, which is treated multi-dimensionally here, including citizens' well-being, purchasing power, happiness, trust, safety, experience and satisfaction.The volume constitutes a reference guide for decision makers, managers and policy makers engaged in the public sector who want to differentiate their performance by fostering entrepreneurial and innovative practices in the scope of public administration that can enhance citizens' quality of life. This volume is also a reference guide for scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested on public innovation.

Foreword; João Leitão and Helena Alves.- Chapter 1. The Transformative Role of Universities: Determinants, Impacts and Challenges; Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano.- Chapter 2. New Paradigms for University Management; Horacio Capanegra Vallé, Graciela Peralta, Mariel Farioli and Luciana Giacosa.- Chapter 3. Public Entrepreneurship and Quality of Life: The Perspectives of Public Entrepreneurs from the State of Minas Gerais; Carolina Riente de Andrade, Daniel Paulino Teixeira Lopes and Ivan Beck Ckagnazaroff.- Chapter 4. An Approach to Measuring Perceived Quality of Life in the City through a Formative Multidimensional Perspective; Walesska Schlesinger, Amparo Cervera Taulet, Helena Alves, José Luis Vázquez Burguete.- Chapter 5. Innovation among Public-Sector Organisations: Push and Pull Factors; Gry Agnete Alsos, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen and Espen John Isaksen.- Chapter 6. Transparency in Open Administrations: Communication, Accountability and Community’s Quality of Life. Evidences from Innovative Practices in Italian Local Governments; Maria Cristina Longo and Eleonora Cardillo.- Chapter 7. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Improvement of Quality of Life through the Formation and Legitimation of a Public-Private Innovation Network in Molecular Biology Applied to Public Health in Southern Brazil; Leandro R.C. Bonfim,Sandro A. Gonçalves, Mário S. Moreira and Márcio Jacometti.- Chapter 8. Citizens and Local Government Management Innovations. Implementation of the New Public Service (NPS) in Municipal Institute Family, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México; Freddy Mariñez Navarro.- Chapter 9. Open Innovative Governance, Municipalities’ Transparency and Citizens’ Quality of Life: Are they a perfectly matched trilogy?; João Leitão, Helena Alves and Dina Pereira.- Chapter 10. Public Management in Brazil: Reflections on the Contemporary Organizational Model; Carlos Otavio de Almeida Afonso, Ricardo Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante and Denize Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante.- Chapter 11. Simplification and Digitalization Practices on Fire Inspection Service: Case study in a State Fire Department in Brazil; Emerson Wagner Mainardes, Alexandre dos Santos Cerqueira and Hekssandro Vassoler.- Chapter 12. Innovation through Work in Education for Development: the Case of the University of Extremadura; Victor Valero-Amaro, Clementina Galera-Casquet, M. Mercedes Galan-Ladero and M. Jesus Barroso-Mendez.- Chapter 13. Challenges of the New Public Management in a Public Hospital; Isabel Cruz and Maria João Major.- Chapter 14. Managing towards Development Results: the Case of Minas Gerais' Management Shock; Renata Vilhena, Humberto Falcão Martins and Caio Marini.- Chapter 15. Assessing the Relation between Entrepreneurial Environment and Institutions and Attitude towards Entrepreneurship: An Experience in Veneto's Vocational Schools; Stefano Noventa, Serena Cubico, Piermatteo Adrolino, Giuseppe Favretto and João Leitão.