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Competitive pressures, rising public demands and tight labour markets call for the need for new approaches of delivering better quality public services, attracting and retaining entrepreneurially oriented employees. The increasing demands to find more cost-effective ways of serving the public, challenges all public sector employees to be entrepreneurial and innovative in delivering public services. Corporate entrepreneurship is the only solution that could assist public sector organisations to shift from being bureaucratic to being innovative and entrepreneurial. The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which corporate entrepreneurship is promoted and encouraged within the South African public sector. The Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) was used to assess the extent to which corporate entrepreneurship is promoted and encouraged in the public sector organisations. The assessment of corporate entrepreneurship has shown that there is still a huge responsibility of creating a climate conducive for corporate entrepreneurship in the public sector.
KEYWORDS Corporate entrepreneurship; Innovation; Public sector