What we do

Across the globe, government teams are pioneering new ways to solve our biggest challenges. States of Change is a collective that exists to support this growing global movement.

Inspire

Inspiring action by sharing stories and practical experiences from public innovators across the world.

Support

Supporting governments to build their innovation capabilities by providing advice and practical learning experiences.

Build

Building the field of public innovation by creating collaborative R&D projects to explore and test what works.

Highlights

Updates

New learning programme open to all UK government

Open to all levels of UK government, the programme helps public servants embed innovation skills into everyday work.

Updates

Applications open for our next cohort in Australia & New Zealand

We're looking for our next set of public sector teams to take part in the learning program across Australia and NZ.

Retrospective

The challenge of innovation pilots

How can we go beyond “innovation theatre” and reports doomed for oblivion, and instead use innovation pilots to accelerate learning? Colombia's Public Innovation team & Nesta's Innovation Skills team share their lessons learned.

Concepts

Which behaviours fuel an innovative culture in government?

Alongside new skills, we need to think about the attitudes, behaviours and mindsets that underpin them.

Resources

Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation

A guide to getting the most from Nesta’s Competency Framework for Experimenting and Public Problem Solving.

Playbook for innovation learning

This playbook has been created for innovation practitioners who want to spread innovation skills, methods and tools.

Landscape of innovation approaches

An overview of innovation methods and approaches we’ve come across in government innovation practice.

Building the next generation of
public innovation

What we do

Inspire

Support

Build

Highlights

New learning programme open to all UK government

Applications open for our next cohort in Australia & New Zealand

The challenge of innovation pilots

Which behaviours fuel an innovative culture in government?

Resources

Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation

Playbook for innovation learning

Landscape of innovation approaches

Join the conversation

@States_Change

Follow us at:

Building the next generation of public innovation

What we do

Inspire

Support

Build

Highlights

New learning programme open to all UK government

Applications open for our next cohort in Australia & New Zealand

The challenge of innovation pilots

Which behaviours fuel an innovative culture in government?

Resources

Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation

Playbook for innovation learning

Landscape of innovation approaches

Join the conversation

@States_Change

Follow us at:

States of Change

Building the next generation of
public innovation