Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview III. PA Reform Author(s) Diana - Camelia Iancu National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Ungureanu Mihai, Title "It takes two?": Analyzing the Roles of Governments, Universities and NGOs in generating Local Innovative Projects in Romania File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Diana - Camelia Iancu Abstract The literature on innovation in local governments is abundant (Ferretti and Parmentola, 2015; Cambell, 1997; Walker, 2006; Bartlett and Dibben, 2002; A Tat‐Kei Ho, 2002). It may tackle different services (education, healthcare, transport, etc.), or consider different outputs (more transparency, efficiency or less corruption, etc.), but they do generate a rather common need: that of replicating "the best practices". The proposal set forward for consideration is a result of a four year analysis on "best practices" in the Romanian local governments. The best practices were identified as projects shortlisted or awarded by the National (Romanian) Agency for Civil Servants in their annual conference on Innovation and Quality in Public Sector (between 2014 and 2017). Interviews with these projects' managers and (when available) members of the implementation teams were conducted. The projects website, along with media materials provided ex officio by the implementing authorities were also included in the analysis. Existent legislation was additionally consider in order to identify the impact (if any) on creating partnerships. The results (not yet final) suggest an interesting map of interaction between local governments, NGOs and universities: very broadly put, universities were involved in less than 5% of the investigated projects, while NGOs played a crucial role in implementing and making the results sustainable for more than 60% of the projects.
