Necessary but not sufficient: Learning and public innovation in four Belgian collaborative networks

Over the past thirty years, governments have been faced with complex public problems (or “wicked†problems) that cannot be managed by a single organization. To respond to these problems, the traditional hierarchy has given way to arrangements between multiple public and private actors, called collaborative networks. In this article, learning, understood as changes in the opinions, beliefs and knowledge of network members, is approached as a driver of public innovation. This relationship is examined based on the qualitative analysis of 51 semidirected interviews with members of four Belgian... Mehr ...