This research sought to gain a deeper understanding of innovation in the Western Australian State Public Sector. It achieves this by exploring the perceptions of Leaders, Experts and lnfluencers regarding innovation, enablers and barriers to innovation, and examples of innovation in the sector. In this study, 'Leaders' were employees in the State Public Sector selected from the top two tiers of the Senior Executive Service position. 'Experts and lnfluencers' were individuals who were recognised as having specialized knowledge, skills and / or success regarding innovation and / or recognised as having the power to affect or influence innovation in the Western Australian Public Sector. In addition, the research also aimed to determine ways in which innovation can be enhanced in the sector. The context of this study is the Western Australia State Public Sector (WASPS) which includes departments, trade concerns, instrumentalities, agencies and state bodies run by the WA State Government. This study is significant because there is little exploration and description of the perception of innovation in the Public Sector of Australia and a lack of common understanding of innovation in the WASPS. This study enables a much greater understanding of the depth, extent and success of innovation in this sector. Innovation is vital for a public sector needing to respond to Western Australia's growth and prosperity. The description of innovation and strategies for enhancing innovation will assist in the further development of a responsive sector. / This study adopts a qualitative methodology to explore the meaning given by Leaders, Experts and lnfluencers and their perceptions of innovation in the public sector. The qualitative paradigm provides rich meaning to the research questions for the study which are: I . What are the perceptions of innovation in the Western Australian State Public Sector amongst Leaders? 2. What are the perceptions of innovation in the Western Australian State Public Sector amongst Experts and lnfluencers? 3. What are the barriers and enablers to innovation in the Western Australian State Public Sector 4. How can innovation in the Western Australian State Public Sector be enhanced? A phenomenological approach is adopted for the study which allows the structure and essence of the phenomena of innovation within the public sector to be explored. Data was collected using semi structured, in-depth interviews and data analysis using a phenomenological approach was conducted. This ensured that the experience and meaning of the phenomena of innovation is described and explained as faithfully as possible. The key findings of the study indicate that while there are pockets of innovation within the WASPS there is an overall need to enhance the capacity for innovation. / An 'emergent model' is proposed as a framework that can provide an enhanced capacity for innovation in the WASPS. This is achieved by addressing the cultural, structural and human resource barriers that exist and by simultaneously enhancing the enablers that were identified in this study. The 'emergent model' takes a strategic view with special consideration for the context for innovation within the WASPS. Inherent in this model is the need for a clear and shared definition of innovation; the creation of ideal conditions for innovation; and the development of an innovation action plan. Superimposed on this model is the need for greater capacity for, and commitment to, meaningful public consultation. In addition the study highlighted a need for strong and effective leadership throughout the Western Australia State Public Sector to enhance innovation. In making these conclusions it is recognised that this study is specific to the state public sector of Western Australia. This study opens the possibility of more extensive research within the public sector, specific to innovation. In particular, there is significant scope to explore the relationship between political and public sector leadership and the effect of this relationship on innovation. In addition, further exploration of successful innovation in the sector could better inform the type of agency in which innovation is successful and an analysis of the leadership factors that influence successful innovation. Further research regarding the ability of leaders to create an environment to enhance innovation within the sector, recruitment practices of the WASPS, and of resource allocation and its effect on innovation capacity is advocated in this study.

The work has as study object the relation between the public sector and private in oncology care and their implications for strengthening the capital project, and as general aim to review how the private sector has benefited from the oncology care policy in Brazil .There was, initially, a study about the relation State and Capital, explaining the changes in the capitalist mode of production, in the political and economic structures from the contemporary crisis of the capital, identifying the conflict relationship between these two sectors. For Research Development, it was used as methodological resource the literature search and the documentary research. The documentary research and the analysis were developed from primary sources data, official sources and organs of the nationally disseminate press. The period for gathering quantitative data side has been from 1998 to 2007. The historical-critical dialectic perspective is the referential used for research and for the exposure of the object studied. To qualify the public and private terms, it was taken as starting point the writings of classic authors such as Hannah Arendt, Habermas and Norberto Bobbio, and as analyzing reference the writings of contemporary Marxists authors, especially the theoretical contribution of Antonio Gramsci. It was then described the relation between public and private sectors in Brazilian healthy policy, making an analysis of oncology care, pointing the influences and the conditionalities of international agencies (IMF and WB) in the Brazilian state policies, identifying their interests and their intervention forms in the policies of oncology care, highlighting its guidelines for basic care, and middle and high complexity, especially the access and expansion projects to treatment of cancer, such as the Expansion Project of Assistance Oncology (EXPANDE), the Project " Strengthening the Reorganization of SUS "(REFORSUS) and the Project for retrofitting Hospital, besides encouraging the public-private partnerships in CACONs, UNACONs in itself and the National Cancer Institute - INCA. It follows that the evolution of the oncology care policies in Brazil - the result of the complex set of interests and contradictions that exist in the state - has been presented in two ways: on the one hand, the direction is the expansion of access to health services, for another, in line with the guidelines of the World Bank, it strengthens and it expands the private sector, in the state sector, for purchase of equipment, supplies and services, in the private sector. In both cases what is at stake is the commercial logic of Liberal State: the profit. / O trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a relação entre o setor público e o privado na atenção oncológica e suas implicações no fortalecimento do projeto do capital, e como objetivo geral analisar de que forma o setor privado tem se beneficiado com a política de atenção oncológica no Brasil. Realizou-se, inicialmente, um estudo acerca da relação Estado e Capital, explicitando as modificações ocorridas no modo de produção capitalista, nas estruturas políticas e econômicas a partir da crise contemporânea do capital, identificando a relação de conflito existente entre estes dois setores. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, utilizou-se como recurso metodológico a pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa documental. A pesquisa documental e a análise foram desenvolvidas a partir de dados obtidos em fontes primárias, fontes oficiais e em órgãos de imprensa de divulgação nacional. O período da coleta de dados quantitativos secundários estendeu-se de 1998 a 2007. A perspectiva dialética histórico-crítica é o referencial utilizado para a realização da pesquisa e para a exposição do objeto estudado. Para qualificar os termos público e privado, foram tomados como ponto de partida os escritos dos autores clássicos como Hannah Arendt, Habermas e Norberto Bobbio, e como referência de análise os escritos de autores marxistas contemporâneos, em especial o aporte teórico de Antonio Gramsci. Em seguida, foi descrita a relação do setor público e privado na política de saúde brasileira, fazendo uma análise da atenção oncológica, apontando as influências e as condicionalidades dos organismos internacionais (FMI e BM) nas políticas estatais brasileiras, descortinando seus interesses e suas formas de intervenção na política de atenção oncológica, destacando suas orientações para a atenção básica, e de média e alta complexidade, principalmente os projetos de acesso e ampliação ao tratamento de câncer, como o Projeto de Expansão da Assistência Oncológica (EXPANDE), o Projeto "Reforço à Reorganização do SUS" (REFORSUS) e o Projeto de Reequipamento Hospitalar, além do incentivo às parcerias público-privadas nos CACONs, UNACONs e no próprio Instituto Nacional de Câncer INCA. Conclui-se que a evolução da política de atenção oncológica no Brasil resultado do complexo jogo de interesses e contradições existentes no Estado tem se apresentado sob dois vieses: por um lado, segue em direção à ampliação do acesso aos serviços de saúde; por outro, em consonância com as orientações do Banco Mundial, fortalece e expande o setor privado, seja no setor estatal, via compra de equipamentos, insumos e serviços, seja no setor privado. Em ambos os casos o que está em jogo é a lógica mercantilista do Estado Liberal: o lucro.