Entrepreneurial and Innovative Practices in Public Institutions

1. The Transformative Role of Universities: Determinants, Impacts, and Challenges
Maribel Guerrero, David Urbano

2. New Paradigms for University Management
Horacio Andrés Capanegra Vallé, Graciela Peralta, Mariel Farioli, Luciana Giacosa

3. Public Entrepreneurship and Quality of Life: The Perspectives of Public Entrepreneurs from the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Carolina Riente Andrade, Daniel Paulino Teixeira Lopes, Ivan Beck Ckagnazaroff

4. An Approach to Measuring Perceived Quality of Life in the City Through a Formative Multidimensional Perspective
Walesska Schlesinger, Amparo Cervera Taulet, Helena Alves, José Luis Vázquez Burguete

5. Innovation Among Public-Sector Organisations: Push and Pull Factors
Gry Agnete Alsos, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, Espen John Isaksen

6. Transparency in Open Administrations: Communication, Accountability and Community’s Quality of Life. Evidences from Innovative Practices in Italian Local Governments
Maria Cristina Longo, Eleonora Cardillo

7. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Improvement of Quality of Life: The Formation and Legitimation of a Public-Private Innovation Network in Molecular Biology Applied to Public Health in Southern Brazil
Leandro R. C. Bonfim, Sandro A. Gonçalves, Mário S. Moreira, Márcio Jacometti

8. Citizens and Local Government Management Innovations. Implementation of the New Public Service (NPS) in Municipal Institute Family, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México
Freddy Mariñez Navarro

9. Open Innovative Governance, Municipalities’ Transparency and Citizens’ Quality of Life: Are They a Perfectly Matched Trilogy?
João Leitão, Helena Alves, Dina Pereira

10. Public Management in Brazil: Reflections on the Contemporary Organizational Model
Carlos Otávio Almeida Afonso, Ricardo Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante, Denize Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante

11. Simplification and Digitalization Practices on Fire Inspection Service: Case Study in a State Fire Department in Brazil
Emerson Wagner Mainardes, Alexandre dos Santos Cerqueira, Hekssandro Vassoler

12. Innovation Through Work in Education for Development: The Case of the University of Extremadura
Victor Valero-Amaro, Clementina Galera-Casquet, M. Mercedes Galan-Ladero, M. Jesus Barroso-Mendez

13. Challenges of the New Public Management in a Public Hospital
Isabel Cruz, Maria João Major

14. Managing Towards Development Results: The Case of Minas Gerais’ Management Shock
Renata Vilhena, Humberto Falcão Martins, Caio Marini

15. Assessing the Relation Between Entrepreneurial Environment and Institutions and Aptitude Towards Entrepreneurship: An Experience in Veneto’s Vocational Schools
Stefano Noventa, Serena Cubico, Piermatteo Ardolino, Giuseppe Favretto, João Leitão

Keywords: Social Sciences, Quality of Life Research, Social Policy, Business Strategy/Leadership, Public Administration