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7 May 2021

Now Hiring: OPSI is seeking junior policy analysts to join the team

We are building up our team at the OECD based on the strong interest and growth in several innovation topics in demand by our OECD member countries. We are looking for early career specialists in a variety of fields connected to futures…

Benjamin Kumpf

4 May 2021

What are the government capabilities needed for 21st Century challenges?

Event

Editor’s note: This is a guest blog by Benjamin Kumpf, Innovation Team Lead in the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate and was co-authored by Angela Hanson and Alex Roberts. It summarises the event ‘Government Capabilities…

Jamie Berryhill

29 April 2021

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Innovations on Cross-Border Collaboration (due 21 May)

Global Trends, Updates on OPSI

Joshua Polchar

29 April 2021

Futures LIVE

Anticipatory Innovation, Scenarios, Strategic Foresight

As a devoted fan of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for over 20 years, the coronavirus pandemic brought a big disappointment for me in 2020: the cancellation of the most important week of my year.…

Four types of experiments, one that sits between transformative and verificatory, one between verificatory and incremental, one between exploratory and incremental, and one between exploratory and transformative

Johannes Mikkonen

14 April 2021

Building experimentalist governance in Latvia

Country Studies, How to innovate, Research

This is a guest post from Johannes Mikonnen of Demos Helsinki, a partner in our recent work with the Latvian public sector. The world in which we live today calls for governments to find solutions…

Experimentation

Heather Buisman

7 April 2021

Building global anticipatory innovation governance capacity

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020

On March 11-12, 2021, more than 450 futures, foresight and innovation experts from 72 countries around the world gathered digitally to discuss the latest on anticipatory innovation governance. Over three sessions, the emerging Anticipatory Innovation…

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Jo Langham on Seeking collaborators: Join us for workshops on innovation through collaboration across borders and jurisdictions: “Hi We are a tech start up out of Brisbane Australia. I worked in the public sector (ATO) for 15…” Jun 17, 06:52

Lena Holmberg on Stewarding Innovation Portfolios for Collective System Change: Examples from Practice: “Really good summary of a very interesting seminar!!!! Looking forward to many more on the same theme, because this is…” Jun 9, 15:52

Prof. Sandford Borins on Reflections on five years at OPSI: “OPSI has been a powerful advocate for, and source of learning and inspiration about, public sector innovation. (Not so many…” May 26, 12:25

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