Piret Tõnurist, Author at Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

10 March 2020

OPSI Up North: Anticipating the Future of Youth in Finland

H2020, How to innovate, Updates on the OPSI

In December 2019, OPSI launched a partnership with ITLA Children’s Foundation in Finland. The aim of the work is to examine mechanisms of Anticipatory Innovation Governance and to test some of these out on fast-changing…

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Piret Tõnurist

10 April 2019

OPSI attends annual UCL IIPP Mission-Oriented Innovation Network

Innovation Facets

The annual meeting of the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network (MOIN) chaired by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato and Prof. Rainer Kattel took place at the Rockerfeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre between March 27-29, 2019. In the picturesque setting by…

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Piret Tõnurist

26 October 2017

Trust in a digital age: Introducing parliamentarians to systems interventions

Event, Systems Thinking, Updates on the OPSI

We are living in an age where access to government and politicians is ever increasing, educational levels are rising, and yet we trust government institutions less and less. On 11 October 2017, OPSI ran a…

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Piret Tõnurist

25 October 2017

Taking the Systems Work Forward: Workshop for Senior Slovenian Officials

Event, Systems Thinking

In September, OPSI launched the report “System Approaches to Public Challenges: Working with Change” on dealing with complexity in public policy. To take this work forward, we launched a series of workshops with leading countries…

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Piret Tõnurist

3 July 2017

A Debate about Uncertainty, Held in the Heart of Certainty

Event, How to innovate

This blog was co-authored by Justin W. Cook On the 28th of February, policy makers, systems thinkers, designers, academics and others convened in Paris for an all day workshop discussing new ways to address public…

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Piret Tõnurist

11 April 2017

Good News: Systems Change in the Public Sector is Possible!

Event, How to innovate, Research, Systems Thinking

The draft report “Working with Change: Systems Approaches to Public Sector Challenges” is now available online. In addition to the framework that was introduced previously on Hackpad, the team working on systems thinking at the…

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