WZB - Innovation and Organization - Project Area Public Governance

	Society and Economic Dynamics

	Research Unit: Innovation and Organization

Knowledge Transfer and Networks

Research Focus

As organizations in the public sector differentiate and specialize, the importance of interorganizational exchange relations increases. Various kinds of public-private networks of cooperation form to bring about social, process-oriented, and product innovations. These dynamics raise the following issues:

		Innovative potential as a factor of structural patterns in networks spanning sectorial and organizational boundaries

		The transfer, creation, and implementation of knowledge and ideas for solving problems and developing competence

		Problems of legitimation in relation to new forms of participation.

Current Research Projects

> Learning in Networks

Project leader:
> Dr. Maria Oppen

Project leader:
> Dr. Maria Oppen

> Corporate Citizenship

Project leader:
> Dr. Maria Oppen

Completed Research Projects

> Structures, processes and results of innovation strategies in
German local government - Public Governance (completed December 2003)

Project leader:
> Dr. Maria Oppen

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