Government or Governance of Urban Innovation?

How green growth is adopted by local policy – a comparative study of ten second-rank cities in Sweden

“…Coordination of resources across organisations and sectors (including 'hybrid' arrangements) involve forging alignments between various local economic and non-economic actors (Davies, 2013;Ely et al, 2013). Linking across diverse actors and knowledge fields is an important point of departure for understanding how innovations influence green growth (Dente, Bobbio, & Spada, 2005). Aspects of green growth address transitions, developments and innovations.…”

Philanthropic Foundations and Local Policy Making in the Austerity Era: Does Urban Governance Matter?

“…The urban governance mode is defined by DiGaetano and Strom (2003) as the way in which the local public institutions interact with private actors in order to address urban problems. From this perspective, the two cases are almost opposite, because the two cities have been governed through a different mode of urban governance for decades (Dente, Bobbio and Spada 2005;Belligni and Ravazzi 2012;. Turin has been characterized by a highly integrated mode of interaction between the local public administration, business actors, non-profit organizations and universities, a governance mode that has been defined a typical case of urban regime.…”

“…Conversely, Milan has been characterized by a more fragmented mode of governance, in which the local public institutions, business actors and non-profit organizations have been contributing to urban policies by acting mostly separately and with short-term and mutable collaborations (Dente, Bobbio and Spada 2005;Galimberti 2013). …”

The Two Futures of Governing: Decentering and Recentering Processes in Governing

“…If there are multiple constituencies with potentially extremely diff erent ideas about policy, then the only way to resolve the confl icts may be to fi nd the few points of agreement. Th e more or less incremental outcomes from that type of decisionmaking process may please established interests within the networks, but may add little to the capacity for innovation and for major policy change (but see Dente, Bobbio and Spada 2003). Th at having been said, assuming that such incremental decisions could be made, implementation would be facilitated because the potential opposition to change would be coopted into the decision.…”