When innovation comes to town—the institutional logics driving change in municipalities

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Table 1. Summary of the four innovation approaches in municipal organizations.

	The business-enabling approach	The organizational change approach	The attractiveness approach	The transformative approach
Purpose	To support the business ecosystem	To develop public administration and services	To champion the place and its attractivity	To tackle societal challenges
Concepts	Traditional innovation system, public sector supports industry	Public service innovation, service design	Place branding, policy mobility, triple helix partnerships	Transformative, transition, systemic change, quadruple helix partnerships
Institutional logics	Supporting logic, market logic	Managerial logic, service logic	Market logic, competitive logic	Relational logic, co-creative logic
End goals	Job creation, business climate	Efficiency, user-orientation, service optimization	Attractivity, growth, investments	Sustainability, resilience, prosperity