Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector ― Zogu Beiheft 43 2013

One key element of public sector reforms has been strengthening the entrepreneurial way of public service delivery. Entrepreneurship is seen as an appropriate way of enhancing the impact of public policies and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the public sector. Connected with this is the expectation that the entrepreneurial mode of public service deliveries transforms public sector entities into more flexible entities which are more responsive to their constituencies' (and taxpayers') needs. These assumptions served as a motivation to compare internationally the experiences with public entrepreneurship on the following levels: understanding of public entrepreneurship, types of public entrepreneurship, and areas of activity. Conceptual and empirical findings - from the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, Austria, Botswana, and Estonia - are presented in this volume. The best (as well as the 'not so good') practices show that public entrepreneurship is a complex, but worthwhile, endeavor.