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Increasingly interconnected contemporary societies face complex problems that impact people's lives and demand collaborative innovative solutions. In the public sector, managers have shown a growing interest in collaboration to stimulate the development and implementation of innovative solutions. Despite this, the field of research on the role of leadership in this process is still incipient. This work aims to build a synthesis of the literature on the role of leaders in collaborative innovation processes in the public sector. The generation of a thematic map reveals two macro themes -- roles and actions of leaders -- associated with six themes: meta-governance, three-dimensional performance, observing basic requirements, restructuring the organization, overcoming obstacles, and exploring the drivers. This framework outlines how public leaders can act to engage in the development of more effective collaborative innovations for society. To review the evidence, it is also recommended that the profile of public leaders indicated to stimulate collaborative innovation processes to be more proactive and less attached to formalisms, should act as a meta-governor to convene, orchestrate, facilitate, regulate, mediate, and catalyze the processes of innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to describe the progress made in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia regarding policy evaluation. It emphasises the innovative nature of the strategic policy that has been implemented to build a policy evaluation system in a collaborative manner. It is based on the knowledge, experience and evaluation capacity building of the staff of the Junta de Andalucía itself, the regional government of Andalusia. Based on documental analysis, surveys by the author and participant observation this article presents a legislative review of the state of evaluation in Andalusia, the role of the Andalusian Government Institute and, within it the Policy Evaluation Department and especially, the crucial role of the Collaborative Group of Policy Evaluation. Currently, this group is still operative and has a significant impact on the institutionalization of the evaluation in Andalusia. This experience shows that this kind of collaborative and interdisciplinary work is achieving excellent results, that the government has talented and motivated professionals, ready to work collaboratively for the improvement of the organisation and that this strategy can be easily replicable in other regional governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]