Offentliga innovationer och governance : En idéanalys av en offentlig aktörs idé om styrning och organisering för att främja offentliga innovationer

Sammanfattning: The aim of this thesis has been to describe a public actor’s ideas about governance in relation to enhancing public innovation. Through a qualitative textual idea analysis, using theoretical ideal types of governance, the thesis found that ideas of several modes of governance are co-existing in the studied texts. Moreover, the idea analysis also discerned three general patterns which constitutes possible descriptions of how this hybrid of governance ideas exist. The results support some previous empirical studies also showing that modes of governance are co-existing while public actors aim to enhance public innovation. This indicates that future research should consider the existence of several modes of governance instead of focusing and prescribing only one, which they have tended to do so far. The proposed descriptions should moreover be considered as a first step of depicting how a hybrid of ideas of governance can appear when a public actor steers and organises the public sector in order to enhance public innovation – a first step that ought to be followed up by futures studies.