This Advanced Introduction explores innovation in the public sector, examining the mindsets, methods and strategies needed for success at every stage. It draws on global case studies to showcase key practical tools that can support innovation across local, regional and national governments.
This
Advanced Introduction explores innovation in the public sector, examining the mindsets, methods and strategies needed for success at every stage. It draws on global case studies to showcase key practical tools that can support innovation across local, regional and national governments.
Key Features:
- Demonstrates how to generate, gather and assess promising ideas
- Evaluates the role of markets and competition
- Presents approaches used to identify, spread and scale efficient new methods
- Highlights ways to prevent government and political environments from crushing imaginative risk-taking
- Covers the benefits and drawbacks of diverse methods, from the organisation of specialist teams and labs to systemic change, and from different models of finance to the use of data and AI
Providing an accessible and rigorous framework, this Advanced Introduction is essential reading for practitioners working in both city and national governments, as well as scholars and students of public policy, public sector economics, regulation and governance, administration, management and organisational innovation.
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Public innovation has advanced significantly in the past decade but it remains under-organized, under-institutionalized, and under-valued. In this timely book, Geoff Mulgan takes stock of the field he helped build and shows what must come next. At a moment of strained government legitimacy, his voice is both grounding and galvanizing. -- James Anderson, Lead, Government Innovation Programs, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Contents
Preface
Introduction: why innovation matters now
1 What is public sector innovation?
2 How can public organisations innovate effectively?
3 Vital building blocks for innovation
4 Labs and units: organising public innovation in specialised teams
5 How to do whole of government innovation
6 Experiments and evidence
7 The transferability question and adopting innovations
8 Innovating the forms of public institutions
9 The role of design
10 Systems and systemic innovation
11 Innovating public finance
12 Absorptive capacity, simplicity and synthesis connecting innovation to
policy and strategy
13 Shared intelligence and strength without weight
14 When should governments try to be creative, innovative and
entrepreneurial?
Index
Geoff Mulgan, Professor, University College London, UK, former head of the UK government Strategy Unit and CEO of Nesta, the UKs innovation foundation
