Roskilde University Sunrise Conference 2012 Conveners of the Roskilde University Sunrise Conference 2012 are pleased to invite you to participate in the annual Sunrise Conference on ‘Transforming Governance, Enhancing Innovation’ to be held in Roskilde, Denmark on October 29-31, 2012. Rising expectations, fiscal constraints and the growing number of wicked problems and policy deadlocks spur the need for public innovation. Public and private actors must interact and collaborate in order to define problems and challenges, generate creative ideas and build ownership to new and bold solutions. Enhancing public innovation through multi-actor collaboration requires a profound transformation of the public sector. Elements associated with New Public Management need to be rethought and downplayed, whereas new elements associated with New Public Governance, Public Value Management, the Neo-Weberian state, Public Service Motivation etc. must be expanded. The conference seeks answer to the question of how this can be done: How can we transform the public sector in order to enhance innovation? The conference will have three streams: One for researchers, one for practitioners and one for students. The three streams will run in parallel, but will come together on the last day of the conference. The research track is organized as a regional conference of the IRSPM. The conference combines keynote speeches of distinguished scholars in publicadministration, governance and management with parallel panel sessions. Keynote speakers: - Professor Robert Agranoff, University of Indiana - Professor Jean Hartley, University of Warwick - Professor Donald P. Moynihan, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Professor Mirko Noordegraaf, Utrecht University - Professor Stephen Osborne, University of Edinburgh - Professor B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburg - Professor Eva Sørensen, Roskilde University - Professor Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University In the panels we welcome conceptual, theoretical and empirical papers dealing with public innovation and the needs and prospects for transforming public administration and governance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in publishing the conference papers in two anthologies, of course provided that the contributions meet the Publisher’s high academic criteria and that the output can be assembled in a coherent whole. Panel titles: - Participation and Civic Engagement in Public Innovation - Network Governance and Policy Innovation - Innovation of Health Policies and Services - New Roles for Politicians & Public Administrators in Collaborative Innovation Processes - Digitalization as a Driver of Public Innovation - Social Entrepreneurship in Public Innovation - Enhancing Innovation in Complex Organizations - Reforming Accountability and Value-for-Money Systems - Transformative Learning for Public Innovation To submit an abstract for a conference paper to be presented at any one of these nine panel tracks on governance and innovation, please visit the conference website: www.sunrise.ruc.dk Abstracts must be submitted by 15 September 2012. We are looking forward to receiving your scholarly contribution and meeting you in Roskilde in October! The Roskilde University Sunrise Conference Secretariat Building 24.2, Universitetsvej 4 , 4000 Roskilde, DENMARK Email: ahkrogh@ruc.dk