Veiko Lember
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veiko Lember |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Lember |
| SIGNATURE | LEMBER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1730-1830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Advancing Citizen Engagement Through Digital Tools
This comparative study examines the implementation of e-participation platforms in the three young democracies of the Baltic States: the Estonian Citizens’ Initiative Portal, the Latvian platform MyVoice, and the Lithuanian E-Citizen platform. Drawing on 28 interviews with key stakeholders of these platforms, alongside with an analysis of their content and relevant documents, this article demonstrates that, while governments often expect digitali…
The twin transition puzzle
Cities are increasingly expected to harness the potential of the “twin transition” — the coupling of sustainability and digital transitions — to shape the speed and direction of socio-technical change. Yet, little is known about how the twin transition imperative is approached and acted upon by city governments and what internal capabilities and support structures they develop to align the twin transition. Drawing on 82 interviews and extensive d…
Public Sector Capabilities and Individual Skills Needed for the Digital Transition
T his special issue aims to unpack what competencies public managers, policy makers, and public leaders need to manage and cope with the digital transition and what this implies for teaching digital governance. We situate digital governance into a wider context of socio-technical change, by using a multilevel perspective based on transition scholarship and the recent debate on directionality. This allows us to capture the public sector capabiliti…
How can Universities Become Transformative Change Agents? Sustainability Strategizing in European Technological Universities
The paper discusses the challenges universities face in responding to the calls to contribute to sustainability transitions. In these calls, universities are expected to be reflexive and co-creative and act as transformative change agents. Universities also face other expectations to improve the strategic management of their traditional missions of teaching, research, and societal service. We discuss how these latter expectations create especiall…
Translating Between Public Administration and the Digital. A Study on the Motivation and Career Choices of Digital Governance Students
Educational programmes in eGovernment or digital government attract a diverse set of students who are interested in the public sector and technological trends. These programmes aim to train a new generation of digital government professionals. However, we know relatively little about how such programmes succeed in training translators who are able to bridge the world of the public sector and that of digitalization. In this paper we systematically…
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks
Technology transfer in economic periphery
Drawing from case studies from the Estonian biotechnology sector, we demonstrate that a focus on the classic formal approach to technology transfer does not fully capture the dynamics and challenges of technology transfer in a peripheral context. We focus on biotechnology because this is an area where entrepreneurial orientation of knowledge institutions and formal models of technology transfer are highly visible. Our case studies show that the k…
The potential impacts of digital technologies on co-production and co-creation
Despite growing interest in the potential of digital technologies to enhance co-production and co-creation in public services, there is a lack of hard evidence on their actual impact. Conceptual fuzziness and tech-optimism stand in the way of collecting such evidence. The article suggests an analytical framework that distinguishes between the impacts of different technologies on different elements of co-production and co-creation, and illustrates…
Understanding the Relationship Between Infrastructure Public‒private Partnerships and Innovation
While the contemporary academic discourse regards innovation as an inherent feature of infrastructure public‒private partnerships (PPPs), the conceptual link between infrastructure PPPs and innovation is narrowly understood. While most existing studies conceptualize the innovation processes and effects within the context of PPP projects, we argue that the relevance of innovation in infrastructure PPPs goes beyond specific projects. In this concep…
Technological capacity in the public sector
Technology is clearly a critical factor in the lives of organizations, yet there are only a few studies that deal with technology and public organizations. In this article, we propose to understand technological change in the public sector, in particular, how technology influences administrative capacity, through a new concept of technological capacity. We use the case of Estonia – internationally associated with a strong e-state profile – as an …
Innovation labs in the public sector
This article is a first comprehensive attempt to globally map and analyse innovation labs (i-labs) in the public sector. The article analyzes theoretical reasons why i-labs are created in the public sector and tests these assumptions in practice. During the empirical study, thirty-five such organizations all over the world were identified. The research is based on a two-step approach: first, a comprehensive survey was carried out followed by an e…
National Varieties of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Most countries that have adopted the public–private partnership (PPP) model as a means of implementing infrastructure projects have launched dedicated supporting units to guide policy development and stimulate project implementation. This paper draws on the theoretical notion of PPP-enabling fields to carry out a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of PPP-supporting units across 19 European countries with varying PPP experiences. We d…
Quo vadis public procurement of innovation
Governments are actively looking for ways to use public procurement so that it would become more effective in facilitating innovation across public and private sectors. However, a shift towards public procurement of innovation (PPI) has proven to be difficult. Whereas the contemporary debate has mostly focused on how to reduce the barriers of PPI through re-conceptualizing the procurement process, there is a need to take into account also wider s…
Urban Competitiveness and Public Procurement for Innovation
Public procurement for innovation represents one of the least studied demand-side innovation policy tools that can be used to increase urban competitiveness. Evidence suggests that local and regional governments are becoming more involved in procuring innovative solutions, but overall knowledge remains limited regarding how they get involved and what effects this involvement has had. Based on a study of Nordic–Baltic Sea cities, the current study…
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks
Technological capacity in the public sector
Technology is clearly a critical factor in the lives of organizations, yet there are only a few studies that deal with technology and public organizations. In this article, we propose to understand technological change in the public sector, in particular, how technology influences administrative capacity, through a new concept of technological capacity. We use the case of Estonia – internationally associated with a strong e-state profile – as an …
Quo vadis public procurement of innovation
Governments are actively looking for ways to use public procurement so that it would become more effective in facilitating innovation across public and private sectors. However, a shift towards public procurement of innovation (PPI) has proven to be difficult. Whereas the contemporary debate has mostly focused on how to reduce the barriers of PPI through re-conceptualizing the procurement process, there is a need to take into account also wider s…
National Varieties of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Most countries that have adopted the public–private partnership (PPP) model as a means of implementing infrastructure projects have launched dedicated supporting units to guide policy development and stimulate project implementation. This paper draws on the theoretical notion of PPP-enabling fields to carry out a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of PPP-supporting units across 19 European countries with varying PPP experiences. We d…
Urban Competitiveness and Public Procurement for Innovation
Public procurement for innovation represents one of the least studied demand-side innovation policy tools that can be used to increase urban competitiveness. Evidence suggests that local and regional governments are becoming more involved in procuring innovative solutions, but overall knowledge remains limited regarding how they get involved and what effects this involvement has had. Based on a study of Nordic–Baltic Sea cities, the current study…
Technology transfer in economic periphery
Drawing from case studies from the Estonian biotechnology sector, we demonstrate that a focus on the classic formal approach to technology transfer does not fully capture the dynamics and challenges of technology transfer in a peripheral context. We focus on biotechnology because this is an area where entrepreneurial orientation of knowledge institutions and formal models of technology transfer are highly visible. Our case studies show that the k…
Urban Competitiveness and Public Procurement for Innovation
Public procurement for innovation represents one of the least studied demand-side innovation policy tools that can be used to increase urban competitiveness. Evidence suggests that local and regional governments are becoming more involved in procuring innovative solutions, but overall knowledge remains limited regarding how they get involved and what effects this involvement has had. Based on a study of Nordic–Baltic Sea cities, the current study…
National Varieties of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Most countries that have adopted the public–private partnership (PPP) model as a means of implementing infrastructure projects have launched dedicated supporting units to guide policy development and stimulate project implementation. This paper draws on the theoretical notion of PPP-enabling fields to carry out a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of PPP-supporting units across 19 European countries with varying PPP experiences. We d…
Quo vadis public procurement of innovation
Governments are actively looking for ways to use public procurement so that it would become more effective in facilitating innovation across public and private sectors. However, a shift towards public procurement of innovation (PPI) has proven to be difficult. Whereas the contemporary debate has mostly focused on how to reduce the barriers of PPI through re-conceptualizing the procurement process, there is a need to take into account also wider s…
Innovation labs in the public sector
This article is a first comprehensive attempt to globally map and analyse innovation labs (i-labs) in the public sector. The article analyzes theoretical reasons why i-labs are created in the public sector and tests these assumptions in practice. During the empirical study, thirty-five such organizations all over the world were identified. The research is based on a two-step approach: first, a comprehensive survey was carried out followed by an e…
Understanding the Relationship Between Infrastructure Public‒private Partnerships and Innovation
While the contemporary academic discourse regards innovation as an inherent feature of infrastructure public‒private partnerships (PPPs), the conceptual link between infrastructure PPPs and innovation is narrowly understood. While most existing studies conceptualize the innovation processes and effects within the context of PPP projects, we argue that the relevance of innovation in infrastructure PPPs goes beyond specific projects. In this concep…
Technological capacity in the public sector
Technology is clearly a critical factor in the lives of organizations, yet there are only a few studies that deal with technology and public organizations. In this article, we propose to understand technological change in the public sector, in particular, how technology influences administrative capacity, through a new concept of technological capacity. We use the case of Estonia – internationally associated with a strong e-state profile – as an …
The potential impacts of digital technologies on co-production and co-creation
Despite growing interest in the potential of digital technologies to enhance co-production and co-creation in public services, there is a lack of hard evidence on their actual impact. Conceptual fuzziness and tech-optimism stand in the way of collecting such evidence. The article suggests an analytical framework that distinguishes between the impacts of different technologies on different elements of co-production and co-creation, and illustrates…
Technology transfer in economic periphery
Drawing from case studies from the Estonian biotechnology sector, we demonstrate that a focus on the classic formal approach to technology transfer does not fully capture the dynamics and challenges of technology transfer in a peripheral context. We focus on biotechnology because this is an area where entrepreneurial orientation of knowledge institutions and formal models of technology transfer are highly visible. Our case studies show that the k…
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks
Translating Between Public Administration and the Digital. A Study on the Motivation and Career Choices of Digital Governance Students
Educational programmes in eGovernment or digital government attract a diverse set of students who are interested in the public sector and technological trends. These programmes aim to train a new generation of digital government professionals. However, we know relatively little about how such programmes succeed in training translators who are able to bridge the world of the public sector and that of digitalization. In this paper we systematically…
Advancing Citizen Engagement Through Digital Tools
This comparative study examines the implementation of e-participation platforms in the three young democracies of the Baltic States: the Estonian Citizens’ Initiative Portal, the Latvian platform MyVoice, and the Lithuanian E-Citizen platform. Drawing on 28 interviews with key stakeholders of these platforms, alongside with an analysis of their content and relevant documents, this article demonstrates that, while governments often expect digitali…
The twin transition puzzle
Cities are increasingly expected to harness the potential of the “twin transition” — the coupling of sustainability and digital transitions — to shape the speed and direction of socio-technical change. Yet, little is known about how the twin transition imperative is approached and acted upon by city governments and what internal capabilities and support structures they develop to align the twin transition. Drawing on 82 interviews and extensive d…
Public Sector Capabilities and Individual Skills Needed for the Digital Transition
T his special issue aims to unpack what competencies public managers, policy makers, and public leaders need to manage and cope with the digital transition and what this implies for teaching digital governance. We situate digital governance into a wider context of socio-technical change, by using a multilevel perspective based on transition scholarship and the recent debate on directionality. This allows us to capture the public sector capabiliti…
How can Universities Become Transformative Change Agents? Sustainability Strategizing in European Technological Universities
The paper discusses the challenges universities face in responding to the calls to contribute to sustainability transitions. In these calls, universities are expected to be reflexive and co-creative and act as transformative change agents. Universities also face other expectations to improve the strategic management of their traditional missions of teaching, research, and societal service. We discuss how these latter expectations create especiall…
Business (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · E-Government and Public Services (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public sector (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economy (4 works)