Multilevel Collaborative Networks and Organisational Innovativeness of Public Agencies in ASEAN

Abstract

In this study, existing multidimensional and cross-correlated aspects of contributing factors of public innovation and organisational innovativeness in literature are reviewed and the effects of internationalmultilevel collaborative network on organisational innovativeness of public agencies in ASEAN are discussed. Based on the ASEAN Talent Mobility programme as a case study, it can be concluded that international cross-sectoral collaborations of public-private-academia partnership can lead to new initiation, new channel of collaborative research, best practice exchanges, and in turn lead to new top down policy implementations and impact the structure and administration of the associated government agencies. The resulting changes create positive impact to the organisation mandate and performance. Key findings and insights gained from this study can be used to derive network and external linkage innovativeness factor for the future development of measurement framework model and multidimensional construct of organisational innovativeness of public agencies in developing countries.