Innovation library
Here, we collected some of the best pieces of literature on innovation. They are about innovation in general, about innovation in the public sector, and also a few ones specifically on innovation and reform in the justice sector.
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The Potential and Limits of Self-Representation at Tribunals
Full Research Report End of Award Report. Swindon, ESRC, 2008
The research was conducted by Professor Michael Adler from the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. It included a telephone survey... -
Lessons from innovation empirical studies in the manufacturing sector
A systematic review of the literature from 1993-2003. Technovation 26(5-6): 644-664. 2006
What is innovation and what determines its development in manufacturing firms? The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially during the last decades.... -
The invisible success factors in product innovation
Journal of Product Innovation Management 1999, p. 115-133
This is one of the most cited articles on product innovation. His eight critical factors are: Solid up-front homework - to define the Product and... -
Does the appointment of judges increase the output of the judiciary?
International Review of Law and Economics: 351-369. 2004
In this quantative study the authors use panel data on Israeli courts to estimate the 'production function' for case dispositions. Their results show that the... -
Are Judges Overpaid?
A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary Debate, SSRN. 2009
Nearly everyone thinks that judges are underpaid, but theory and evidence provide little support for this view. Theory suggests that increasing judicial salaries... -
Collaborating for Innovation Results and Findings from Capgemini’s 2008 Global Study, 2010
This study was conducted with the objective of assessing the extent to which corporations use collaboration as a means to effectively empower their Product and... -
Leveraging Technology to deliver legal services
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 23, Number 1 Fall 2009
Several businessmodels for online legal services are discussed. According to the author, "A significant latent market of underserved low- and moderate-income... -
Fitting the Forum to the Fuss with Sticky Defaults
Failure on the Market for Dispute Resolution Services? . Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 7(1), 2006
In Fitting the Forum to the Fuss with Sticky Defaults, the authors neutrally examine the significant issue of why empirical evidence (mostly based on U.S. data)... -
Growing Justice
Justice Policies and Transaction Costs. SSRN Volume, DOI. 2009
This paper reviews the literature on policies aiming to improve the rule of law and the operation of a legal system. It takes a bottom up perspective of clients... -
Public sector innovation
The role of commercial partnerships, 2010
The global economic situation is putting increasing pressure on public sector funding and so innovation is now being recognised as an essential mechanism for... -
Public Management Innovation
The American Review of Public Administration 31(1): 5. 2001
Previous research based on a sample of the best applications to the State and Local Government Innovation Awards (1990-1994) identified the most frequently observed... -
Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Making the Law Work for Everyone. I and II, 2008.
Making the Law Work for Everyone examines issues that will have a profound influence on human potential and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Three... -
Legal Barriers To Innovation
The Growing Economic Cost Of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets. Stanford Law Review, 2008.
Markets for legal goods and services are among the most heavily regulated in the U.S. Between the profession and the judiciary, lawyers control not only who may... -
Innovation in governance and public services
Past and present. Public Money & Management 25(1): 27-34. 2005
Three approaches to innovation in the public sector in the post war period are identified and analysed for their implications for policy-makers, managers and... -
Champions of technological innovation
Administrative Science Quarterly 35(2): 317-341. 1990
This study investigated the personality characteristics, leadership behaviors, and influence tactics of champions of technological innovations. Analyses of... -
Creating Quality Courts
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 7(3): 490-510. 2010.
Numerous studies examine the importance of legal systems, yet there is little scholarship on how nations can improve their legal systems. Nations might try to... -
Settlement
Discussion Paper prepared for inclusion in the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2nd Ed.), Vol. 10: Procedural, 2008.
This survey of the modeling of pretrial settlement bargaining organizes current main themes and recent developments. The basic concepts used are outlined as core... -
Agreements to Waive or Arbitrate Legal Claims
An Economic Analysis. Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 8: 209. 2002
As arbitration agreements have grown in use, they have become controversial, with many critics describing them as a disguised form of waiver. This paper presents an... -
Courts. Quarterly Journal of Economics(May), 2003.
In cooperation with Lex Mundi member law firms in 109 countries, we measure and describe the exact procedures used by litigants and courts to evict a tenant for... -
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change. Law and Society Review 9(1): 165-230. 1974
This influential essay by Marc Galanter (1974) identifies two key players in the legal system - one-shotters (the 'have-nots') and repeat players (the 'haves') and... -
Innovation Passport
The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey from Research to Reality, 2010
Previous research based on a sample of the best applications to the State and Local Government Innovation Awards (1990-1994) identified the most frequently observed... -
The Innovation Killer
How what we know limits what we can imagine- and what smart companies are doing about it, 2006.
This book is especially relevant for the innovative rule of law initiative, as it suggests how existing knowledge and culture can block innovation, and how this can... -
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Practice and principles, Harper Row. 1985
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Specializing the courts
University of Chicago Press. 2011
Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy... -
The innovator's dilemma
When new technologies cause great firms to fail, 1997.
This bestseller is most famous for distinguishing between two types of innovation with very different challenges. It may be very relevant to innovation in the rule... -
The Challenge of Innovating in Government
PricewaterhouseCoopersEndowment for the Business of Government Understanding Innovation, 2001.
What Inspires Innovation in the public sector? According to this report, the main drivers are: Frustration with Status Quo ...
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