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This website was created by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), part of the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV).

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- European Commission Collaboration
  Working in partnership with the European Commission, including through its Horizon 2020 programme, to achieve priorities in leading public sector innovation.
- Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
  Exploring how governments can seize the potential of AI for public sector transformation while mitigating risks and strengthening public trust.
- Innovation Portfolios
  Taking a portfolio approach to innovation using OPSI's Innovation Facets Model.
- Anticipatory Innovation
  Anticipating future changes and developing and testing new approaches with and for governments and partners.
- Cross-Border Government Innovation
  Exploring innovative approaches for government collaboration across national and jurisdictional borders.
- Behavioural Insights
  Researching the use of behavioural science in policy-making, from behavioural drivers and barriers to systematically challenging assumptions and testing new interventions.
- Innovation Declaration
- Innovation Management
- Innovation Trends
- Innovative Capacity
- Mission-Oriented Innovation
- Systems Approaches
- Toolkit Navigator
  Putting innovation theory into practice. A compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation.
- Case Study Library
  Explore hundreds of public sector case studies from around the world and all levels of government.
- Portfolio Exploration Tool
  A free self-assessment tool to determine your team’s or organisation’s capability to innovate.
- Anticipatory Innovation Resource (AIR)
- Innovation Declaration
- BI Knowledge Hub
  Discover Behavioural Insights (BI) projects and units from around the globe. Add or pre-register your unit or project and uncover key insights into what works.
- Portfolio Exploration Workshop
- COVID-19 Response Tracker
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Decision-makers and experts frequently express an unmet need for resources to help them better perceive, make sense of, and act upon future changes as they are emerging in the present. More than that, they want to use the insights generated to create novel, value-shifting, and implemented initiatives. This practice is anticipatory innovation.

The Anticipatory Innovation Resources (AIR), help policy practitioners and experts in public sector innovation get started with anticipatory innovation. The resource was developed by OECD OPSI and the Danish Design Centre, with support from the European Commission, and in consultation with futures practitioners who helped identify the most pressing and important answers to spark innovative and value-shifting anticipation.

AIR is composed of three main types of resources, linked together to provide a holistic perspective:

Questions: starting points and answers to integrate and strengthen anticipatory capacities
Cases: examples of anticipatory innovation cases in practice
Approaches: ways of working, tools, and methods to move into action
Themes: a broad overview of questions, cases and approaches by theme

Use AIR to help identify opportunities to use anticipation, develop effective interventions, apply findings to policy, and communicate results for impact.