Inovacinė veikla ir jos ypatumai vietos savivaldos institucijose ; Innovations and their specific features in local government institutions

Abstract

In the article, innovations are treated as a content of the strategy of local government institutions. It is shown that service innovation typologies in local government institutions can be applied only partly because political innovations are not evaluated according to any typology. There are four levels of innovations presented in the article: political, organizational potential development, administration, and functional activities. At the level of organizational potential development, three types of innovations are identified: new values, organizational structure innovations, and management system innovations. Administration level innovations are treated as service and process innovations. At the level of functional activities, innovations of human resources, finance, and marketing are identified. Using method of sociological survey, it has been proved that innovations of organizational potential development and functional activities are necessary at local government organizations. Benefits and obstacles of innovations have been showed, too.