Public Sector Innovations: How Successes Fail - An exploratory study of feedback, accountability and learning as explaining factors

This PhD project investigates the lives of public sector innovations in six European countries: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, and the UK: how many of these innovations survive? What causes their termination? It focusses on the role of organizational feedback loops, accountability mechanisms and learning processes in predicting the life span of public sector innovations. The research uses a survey (N=246) in order to investigate which factors are linked to the survival of public sector innovations. Case studies (N=3) are used to further investigate the causal mechanisms behind these links.