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Leadership and innovation in the public sector Sandford Borins University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Keywords management innovation awards. These Innovation, Leadership, Introduction awards shared two key objectives: Bottom up decision making, Crisis Innovation has become a topic of great countering public criticism or hostility to the Abstract interest to managers in both the public and public service, in part because it is perceived This article considers the nature private sectors[1]. In the private sector, the as not being innovative, and encouraging the and role of leadership in three ideal types of public management rapid development of technology has development and dissemination of innovation: politically-led provided opportunities for firms to launch innovations and best practices within the responses to crises, organizational new products, transform their production public sector. turnarounds engineered by newly- Public management innovation has appointed agency heads, and processes, and do business in new ways. The bottom-up innovations initiated by Schumpeterian process of creative become a subject of considerable academic front-line public servants and interest. One line of research involves destruction has become particularly intense, middle managers. Quantitative and in many industries, the choi