Rethinking Smart Public Organisations Working for Innovation

Public organisations are embracing a smart approach that facilitates the construction of innovation. This process supports collaborative frameworks by promoting smart work initiatives, which contribute to social and organisational changes, and innovation. Technology is opening opportunities to drive collabora- tive innovation, in order to address social issues and value. Smart working enables smart public administration as public value-driven organisation. Public organisations are evolving by going smart in order to drive value creation processes within society. Smart work helps shape working relationships as collaborative work spaces are opening to organisational innovation. Smart working public organisations contribute to promoting collaborative innovation; they adopt the smartworkingmode andmind- set as a way to support collaborative work relationships. This is enabled by digital technologies that provide open platforms for information sharing and exchange; they enhance the human and social aspect of working collaboratively, and strengthen networking. The introduction, experimentation and developments in smart working provide an opportunity for public organisations that aim to drive digital moderni- sation and transformation, by supporting innovation as a collaborative process, and empowering workers to behave with autonomy and flexibility, thereby improving job satisfaction and well-being within communities. Taking all these aspects into consideration, the study envisions a deep and critical re-visiting and re-elaboration of studies and research that concern the relationship between organisations which are going digital and smart and smart work with regards to public organisations.