"This book is a call to action for addressing problems like climate change, clean energy, and healthcare access on a grand scale, leveraging an ecosystem of public/government resources and private sector, technology-focused organizations. Chapters are framed around cases and profiles from over...

While archival performance measures and citizen perceptual measures are widely used to gauge government performance, the relationship between the two remains inconclusive due to conflicting empirical evidence, which obscures the role of citizen evaluation in government performance measurement....

"Oman's 1970 coup launched a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham. This work details the early construction of the Qabusid state in the...

Innovation, policy, and trends in public procurement -- Public procurement and innovation -- Traditional contract pathways and strategies for R&D -- Alternative contract pathways for R&D -- Other transaction authorities : a DoD case study.