Managing Sustainable Development Programmes

'As we circle around the elephant of innovation this valuable book helps take our blinders off and better understand the process of transition from the tri-partite model of industrial society (government-industry-labour) to the triple helix model of a knowledge- based society (university-industry-government) in which academic institutions play a key role in promoting entrepreneurship.' Henry Etzkowitz, Stanford University, Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), USA 'Goran Brulin's and Lennart Svensson's treatise stands out from the pack of management literature due to its unusual focus on long-term, large, government-funded programs for innovation in combination with the authors' indisputable experiences from such interventions at the Swedish as well as the multi-national and multi-cultural European level. Read it and learn!' Evert Vedung, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden 'Based on a new analysis of why many large-scale publicly funded programmes prove unsustainable, Brulin and Svensson make a compelling case for projects for competence development to be embedded in the dynamics of real workplaces, with all their uncertainties, risks and creative potential. Active ownership of the learning processes is an essential ingredient if innovation to be energised and development sustained.' Karen Evans, Chair in Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK 'The authors have strong background in understanding Swedish political, social environment and economics and development programs. While their focus is centralized towards their local studies, their suggested improvements to traditional program management by adding ownership, collaboration and development can be applied globally. Development in these areas can lead to innovation to improve success rates on any size project.' PM World Journal, vol. 1, no. 4 'The authors make a strong case for developing on-going evaluation programs as an integral part of every large project in order to measure the effects of the project on regional growth. Although this book is based on project/programme experience in the European Union...the recommendations are universal. All major stakeholders in large projects/programmes would benefit from the recommendations made in this book.' PM World Journal, vol. 3, no. 3