What would Max Weber Say about Public-Sector Innovation?1

• Authors: Rainer Kattel
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-19

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-27

Contributors

author

Rainer Kattel

• Professor of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance and Head of the Program at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/nispa-2015-0001