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18 July 2019

Crisis as a driver of innovation: Lessons from a workshop with Montenegrins

How might we take advantage of the possibilities that emerge in a crisis to build a better innovation portfolio? We took that question to a recent workshop with a delegation from the Government of Montenegro.…

Rebecca Santos

15 July 2019

‘Walking the walk’: Welsh Education Directorate becomes a ‘Learning Organisation’

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For better or worse, the minutiae of government operations can easily fly under the radar of the average person. Not so, in the domain of education. The success or failure of an education system hits…

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Angela Hanson

24 April 2019

Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part II: Testing it in Sweden

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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…

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Angela Hanson

24 April 2019

Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part I: Theory into Practice

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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

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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

15 February 2019

How to give feedback on the Innovation Declaration

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The Draft OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation has been open since the 20th of November 2018, when the draft was launched at the Innovation in Government: Steps, leaps and bounds conference. Public consultation will…

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