The Persistence of Innovation in Government

The Persistence of Innovation in Government: A Guide for Innovative Public ServantsIBM Center for The Business of GovernmentAbout the AuthorSandford Borins is a Professor of Public Management in theUniversity of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance,Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, and Department ofManagement, University of Toronto-Scarborough. He was thefounding chair of the latter and served in that capacity from1991 to 2003. He is currently a research fellow at the AshCenter for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HarvardKennedy School. He has been a visiting professor at theHarvard Kennedy School and the Goldman School of PublicPolicy, University of California at Berkeley, and Scholar-in-Residence in the Ontario Cabinet Office.He is the author of 10 books and numerous articles. The booksinclude The Persistence of Innovation in Government (BrookingsPress, 2014) Governing Fables: Learning from Public SectorNarratives (Information Age Publishing, 2011), Innovations inGovernment: Research, Recognition, and Replication (Brookings,2008), Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes areTransforming American Government, (Georgetown UniversityPress, 1998), and Political Management in Canada, coauthoredwith Hon. Allan Blakeney, former premier of Saskatchewan(University of Toronto Press, 1998).Professor Borins has had a wide range of professional experience.He is a frequent speaker on public sector innovation, with recentpresentations to the Australian Department of Industry andInnovation, Australian National University, Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (Paris), RoskildeUniversity (Denmark), and Public Management ResearchConference (United States). He was a member of the board ofdirectors of the Ontario Transportation Capital Corporation,responsible for developing Ontario’s electronic toll road (Highway407). He was the President of the Canadian Association ofPrograms in Public Administration, the counterpart to NASPAA,from 2003 to 2007.He did his undergraduate studies at Harvard, where he graduatedmagna cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, andreceived a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He then took a master’sdegree in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, andreceived his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard.40