How could “Government at a Glance” be used to measure innovation?

1. How could “Government at a Glance” be used to measure innovation? Zsuzsanna Lonti OECD - GOV

2. Definitions of innovation • Doing something a new or different way • new and different for whom? Only first movers or adapters as well? • “The implementation of a new or significantly improved product ( good or service) or process, a new marketing method, or a new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations” (Oslo Manual, 2005)

3. Different types of innovations • new or improved service • process innovation • administrative innovation • system innovation • conceptual innovation • radical change of rationality ( Publin, 2007 )

4. Objectives of GaaG • enable countries to better understand their own practices • demonstrate their progress • benchmark their own achievements through international comparisons • learn from the experiences of other countries facing similar challenges • over the longer run link practices to performance

5. What will GaaG include? Institutions Structure of government Inputs Outputs Outcomes Revenue Processes What is the resulting impact on the citizens and business? What are the goods and services which the public sector produces? How much money does the public sector collect? How much and what kind of resources does the public sector use? What does the public sector do, and how does it do it?

6. Major features of GaaG1 • Focus on: public administration • Unit of analysis : country • Use of best available data • Most data on inputs and processes • Most data collected by OECD • Development of stable dataset

7. How is GaaG different from other data sets? • Evidence-based data • Unique access to governments • data collected from government officials • practitioner focus • Indicators selected in consensus with member countries • Composite indicators created for narrowly defined areas • No single super-indicator

8. Areas that it will cover • Institutional structures • Revenues and expenditures • Production costs • Employment • Budget practices • HRM practices • Regulatory management practices • E-government • Integrity • Open government

9. Where could innovations be reflected in GaaG? • Innovations in policy choices • Special COFOG including splits between individual and collective goods and cash and in kind provision • production costs - choice of service provider • Innovations in public management practices

10. Best practices = Innovations? • What is the relationship between best practices and innovations? • Some process indicators in GaaG are based on best practices • transparency in budgeting • integrity indicators • regulatory management indicators • e-government indicators

11. Future plans • New focus: innovations in service delivery • Collecting data on quality aspects of processes • Developing data on outputs of public administration • Introduction of executive governance outcome indicators • fiscal stability • equity • trust