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24 April 2019

Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part II: Testing it in Sweden

This post is a follow-on from our Part I post, which provided an overview of the design and development of our Innovation Portfolio Exploration workshop based on OPSI’s Innovation Facets model. Earlier this month, we…

Angela Hanson

24 April 2019

Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part I: Theory into Practice

Innovation Facets

All models are wrong, but some are useful Over the last few months, OPSI has been testing a model for public sector innovation based on our experiences with system-level studies in Canada and Brazil. As…

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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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Rebecca Santos

27 March 2019

Innovation in Israel

Country Studies

From the 11 to 13 of March, OPSI travelled to Israel to interview high-level leaders from across the public sector to understand the Israeli context for innovation better. “This trip was our first foray into…

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Alex Roberts

27 March 2019

Innovation is not a dirty word

How to innovate

If you do not name a thing, how can you talk about it? If you avoid a word, what do you miss out on? In some recent discussions, some members of the OPSI team were…

Sarah Strapps

27 March 2019

Submit your cases: Putting people at the heart of social policy (deadline extended to 12 April 2019)

Updates on the OPSI

Gregory Michener on Ensuring Impartiality through Identity-Neutrality Provisions: the Case of Freedom of Information in Brazil: “The scholarly article on this policy innovation can be found here. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gove.12416” Aug 24, 12:34

Julio Fuster on Getting serious about innovation management: “Sorry it's www.giminstitute.org, the Global Institute for Innovation Management, Boston based with partners in many countries and it's own methodology…” Aug 19, 14:14

Julio Fuster on Getting serious about innovation management: “Great introduction to innovation standards and bodies of knowledge, but www.IAOIP.org Body of Knowledge (to be niw aligned with ISO56000…” Aug 19, 14:02

Jonas Gumbel on Getting serious about innovation management: “Well articulated and inspirational article @magnus karlsson. Thanks!” Aug 16, 17:31

Odeh Al-Jayyousi on World Government Summit at Expo 2020 Dubai dates announced: “I will be pleased to contribute to the Summit as the head of Innovation and PhD program at Arabian Gulf…” Jul 4, 19:11