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9 June 2021

Stewarding Innovation Portfolios for Collective System Change: Examples from Practice

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Innovation portfolio management is becoming a core practice for intentional and proactive public sector innovation units to prepare governments to address a diversity of current and future challenges. The practice: Helps build clarity of…

Chiara Bleckenwegner

24 March 2021

Lessons from the 2021 Mission-oriented Innovation Simulation

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Mission-oriented innovation helps the public sector direct innovation towards grand societal challenges. In the face of today’s wicked problems – from plastic pollution to rising inequalities – interest in mission-oriented innovation is growing across OECD…

Angela Hanson

27 January 2021

Remixing the Mission Design Canvas

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Missions offer a formalised path to creating public value but urgently need more experimental and iterative approaches to make missions a reality in the messy world of public policy. Mission-oriented innovation needs not only an ambitious clarity of purpose but…

Rowan Conway

15 December 2020

Dispatches from the 2020 Mission Oriented Innovation Bootcamp

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This article is jointly published on the UCL IIPP blog. As part of an ongoing partnership between the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and the OECD’s Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI),…

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