The existing thought focuses on promoting a more ‘self-conscious’ recognition of the importance of innovation in a public sector. In so doing, it seeks to-redress a perceived imbalance in the emphasis placed on innovation in the private sector vis-à-vis innovation in the public sector. This imbalance has arisen partly as a result of the growing prominence of the ‘innovation studies’ literature relating to the private sector. Another reason for this imbalance emerging has been the beliefs that the public sector is neither equipped to be, or should seek to become, innovative.