Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India. (19th June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goyal, Nihit; Howlett, Michael; Chindarkar, Namrata
• Other Names: Jarvis Darryl S.L. guestEditor.; He Alex Jingwei guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Public administration and development. Volume 40:Number 1(2020:Feb.)
• Page Start: 49
• Page End: 64
• Publication Date: 2019-06-19
• Subjects: energy access -- energy policy -- multiple streams framework -- policy entrepreneurship -- policy innovation -- process broker -- program champion -- technology innovator -- water policy; Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Développement communautaire -- Pays en voie de développement -- Périodiques; Pays en voie de développement -- Administration -- Périodiques; Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions sociales -- Périodiques; 350
• DOI: 10.1002/pad.1855
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0271-2075

Abstract

Summary: Although policy entrepreneurship is essential for fostering policy innovations to achieve sustainable development, the literature has conflated different types of entrepreneurship and disaggregated it using inconsistent terminology. We conceptualize entrepreneurship using a six‐stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF)—which addresses key limitations of the original MSF—to examine entrepreneurial activities in the case of the Jyotigram Yojana, a widely recognized policy innovation for managing the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India. We find that whereas policy and political entrepreneurship no doubt played a significant role in coupling the streams and fostering this policy innovation, the process broker, program champion, and technology innovator were also important in policy formulation, implementation, and "success." We conclude that the six‐stream variant of MSF is useful for identifying and distinguishing various types of entrepreneurship involved in policy innovation for sustainability.