Demographic Shifts and Digital Innovation in the Public Sector [Paperback]

This book examines the impact of demographic decline on digital innovation in the public sector. Utilizing data from Italian municipalities, it provides quantitative and qualitative analyses to reveal the negative impact of demographic decline on digital innovation, which presents a unique challenge for policymakers seeking to foster technological advances in a shrinking, ageing society. This book also investigates the roles of macro-level social, economic, demographic, and administrative factors in the innovation of public organizations.  

 

By highlighting these broader demographic dynamics, this book challenges existing theories of public sector innovation, urging greater attention to slow-moving external factors as critical drivers of long-term innovation strategies.

.- 1. Introduction: Innovation in the context of demographic decline.

.- 2. Demographic Transition Theories and Innovation.

.- 3. Methodology and Research Design.

.- 4. Quantitative Analysis.

.- 5. Illustrative Case Study: the cases of Biella and Vercelli.

.- 6. General Discussion and Conclusion.

.- 7. Appendix.

Manuel Di Loreto is a graduate in Public Administration from Leiden University in the Netherlands. His research interests lie at the intersection of public administration, public policy, and comparative politics, with a focus on how innovation and smart governance practices reshape public organizations, affect their performance, and lead to broader societal, economic, and environmental outcomes. He is an expert in statistical programming and in both quantitativlc‚