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- European Commission Collaboration
  Working in partnership with the European Commission, including through its Horizon 2020 programme, to achieve priorities in leading public sector innovation.
- Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
  Exploring how governments can seize the potential of AI for public sector transformation while mitigating risks and strengthening public trust.
- Innovation Portfolios
  Taking a portfolio approach to innovation using OPSI's Innovation Facets Model.
- Anticipatory Innovation
  Anticipating future changes and developing and testing new approaches with and for governments and partners.
- Cross-Border Government Innovation
  Exploring innovative approaches for government collaboration across national and jurisdictional borders.
- Behavioural Insights
  Researching the use of behavioural science in policy-making, from behavioural drivers and barriers to systematically challenging assumptions and testing new interventions.
- Innovation Declaration
- Innovation Management
- Innovation Trends
- Innovative Capacity
- Mission-Oriented Innovation
- Systems Approaches
- Toolkit Navigator
  Putting innovation theory into practice. A compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation.
- Case Study Library
  Explore hundreds of public sector case studies from around the world and all levels of government.
- Portfolio Exploration Tool
  A free self-assessment tool to determine your team’s or organisation’s capability to innovate.
- Anticipatory Innovation Resource (AIR)
- Innovation Declaration
- BI Knowledge Hub
  Discover Behavioural Insights (BI) projects and units from around the globe. Add or pre-register your unit or project and uncover key insights into what works.
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Learning for Innovation

Written by Alex Roberts | 14 October 2016

How does your organisation know when it needs an innovative response to a problem? How does it learn what the problems are? How does it learn for innovation? We are seeking your input on our ‘alpha’ version of a study on identifying problems and learning for innovation in the public sector. Public sector organisations are dealing with large and varied changes in their operating environment. Many traditional practices are no longer delivering the results that...

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Brazil Innovation Week: Building on the Country’s Innate Creativity

Written by OPSI | 9 December 2015

This blog was authored by guest blogger, Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Advisor, Special Advisory Unit for Management Modernization, Brazilian Ministry of Planning Innovation requires a certain amount of creativity and dynamic thinking, two qualities that come somewhat naturally in Brazil. The country’s recent Innovation Week was all about harnessing these attributes for positive change in the public sector. From November 30th and December 4th, several hundred participants embarked enthusiastically…