Foreword; Joao Leitao and Helena Alves.- Chapter 1. The Transformative Role of Universities: Determinants, Impacts and Challenges; Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano.- Chapter 2. New Paradigms for University Management; Horacio Capanegra Valle, Graciela Peralta, Mariel Farioli and Luciana Giacosa.- Chapter 3. Public Entrepreneurship and Quality of Life: The Perspectives of Public Entrepreneurs from the State of Minas Gerais; Carolina Riente de Andrade, Daniel Paulino Teixeira Lopes and Ivan Beck Ckagnazaroff.- Chapter 4. An Approach to Measuring Perceived Quality of Life in the City through a Formative Multidimensional Perspective; Walesska Schlesinger, Amparo Cervera Taulet, Helena Alves, Jose Luis Vazquez Burguete.- Chapter 5. Innovation among Public-Sector Organisations: Push and Pull Factors; Gry Agnete Alsos, Tommy Hoyvarde Clausen and Espen John Isaksen.- Chapter 6. Transparency in Open Administrations: Communication, Accountability and Community's Quality of Life. Evidences from Innovative Practices in Italian Local Governments; Maria Cristina Longo and Eleonora Cardillo.- Chapter 7. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Improvement of Quality of Life through the Formation and Legitimation of a Public-Private Innovation Network in Molecular Biology Applied to Public Health in Southern Brazil; Leandro R.C. Bonfim, Sandro A. Goncalves, Mario S. Moreira and Marcio Jacometti.- Chapter 8. Citizens and Local Government Management Innovations. Implementation of the New Public Service (NPS) in Municipal Institute Family, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Freddy Marinez Navarro.- Chapter 9. Open Innovative Governance, Municipalities' Transparency and Citizens' Quality of Life: Are they a perfectly matched trilogy?; Joao Leitao, Helena Alves and Dina Pereira.- Chapter 10. Public Management in Brazil: Reflections on the Contemporary Organizational Model; Carlos Otavio de Almeida Afonso, Ricardo Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante and Denize Vinhaes Maluf Cavalcante.- Chapter 11. Simplification and Digitalization Practices on Fire Inspection Service: Case study in a State Fire Department in Brazil; Emerson Wagner Mainardes, Alexandre dos Santos Cerqueira and Hekssandro Vassoler.- Chapter 12. Innovation through Work in Education for Development: the Case of the University of Extremadura; Victor Valero-Amaro, Clementina Galera-Casquet, M. Mercedes Galan-Ladero and M. Jesus Barroso-Mendez.- Chapter 13. Challenges of the New Public Management in a Public Hospital; Isabel Cruz and Maria Joao Major.- Chapter 14. Managing towards Development Results: the Case of Minas Gerais' Management Shock; Renata Vilhena, Humberto Falcao Martins and Caio Marini.- Chapter 15. Assessing the Relation between Entrepreneurial Environment and Institutions and Attitude towards Entrepreneurship: An Experience in Veneto's Vocational Schools; Stefano Noventa, Serena Cubico, Piermatteo Adrolino, Giuseppe Favretto and Joao Leitao.