Innovative behaviour promoted thanks to Kafka
Mister Kafka is how he is called, the secretary of state for administrative reform ('governmental simplification') in Belgium. His name is Van Quickenborne but as he likes to keep things simple, his nickname is 'Q'. His task is to reduce all bureaucratic and unnecessary rules, to reduce the amount of paper and time used for apparent simple actions. Having such a Kafka leads, in Belgium at least, to various innovations and improvements. The example mister Kafka is most proud of: In Belgium it is now possible to set up your own enterprise in only three days. At the 'one-stop-business-shop' one can arrange all necessary licenses, insurances etc. Thanks to this innovation, the amount of starting businesses increased with 40 per cent.
At the Kafka-website Belgians can report bureaucratic abuse. Or rather: leads for innovation. In the Netherlands there is the Kafka-brigade, with the same kind of ambition but with less concrete innovations on their track record (yet).
