Presentation on "OECD Network of Schools of Government" made at the Meeting on Promoting Public Sector Innovation: The Role of Schools of Government, OECD, 13-14 November 2014

1. OECD Network of
Schools of Government
Geert Bouckaert
President of IIAS
KU Leuven Public Governance Institute

2. Public Governance Institute
Developing new frameworks
What we do not want:
-future supply for extrapollated past demand
-the current public sector shapes teaching/training and
research (too much single loop)
What we do want:
-PA Teaching and Training pro-actively shapes our future
public sector: this implies voluntarism to change realities,
innovation, shaping sustainable practices, producing instead
of re-producing new realities

3. Public Governance Institute
Developing new content
Four principles derived from four facts:
1.Service delivery: from public sector to public service:
-Implication: blurred borders, chain of delivery, partnerships,
shared services, cloud sourcing, cooperation, data sharing,..
2.From Monopoly to Oligopoly: Hierarchy plus Market and
Networks:
-Implication: tools and techniques to coordinate, to compare
models and performance, across countries/languages.

4. Public Governance Institute
3.Next to existing services, also new services, and crises:
-Implication: offering three types of functioning: innovative
current routine service delivery; new delivery; coping with
crises.
4.Complex societal demands:
-Implication: less purely discipline related teaching; more
case based teaching involving mutiple disciplines;
caleidoscopic approach of delivery, new services, crises.

5. Public Governance Institute
Developing new teaching and training
Some measures to be taken:
1.Connect Schools to the research community
2.Develop case-databases within regions and cultures
3.Accreditation based on networks of peers
4.Share supply capacity of schools