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The four levels of public innovation maturity

Joeri van den Steenhoven introduces his maturity levels to demonstrate the readiness of government to successfully engage in innovation and offer guidance on practical action.

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Field notes

Building a speedboat: An NGO experience of public sector innovation

Chris Plumridge, one of the States of Change learning programme participants in Victoria, reflects on how being a so called “gatecrasher” is paving the way for rewriting the script when it comes to government stereotypes.

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Updates

Introducing our new debate series: Lab Legacies

Join us on October 4th for our new debate series on innovation craft and lab politics, featuring two former government innovation lab leaders - Marco Steinberg (Helsinki Design Lab) and Juan Felipe Lopez (Laboratorio de Gobierno).

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Provocation

Forget about impact: Let’s be honest about systems change

In this provocation piece, Dutch innovation organisation Kennisland argue for a greater focus on systems change over impact to drive change in public and social innovation.

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Concepts

Practice-based R&D for public innovation

How we're working with practitioners to generate new insights through collaborative R&D activities.

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Field notes

Busting scams with Crime Stoppers Victoria

One of our States of Change Victoria teams share how they're reframing problems and putting users first.

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Provocation

Government innovation and the failure fixation

Why does innovation in government so often focus on failure and the risk aversion of the public service? Sam Hannah-Rankin, Director of Public Sector Innovation in the Victorian State Government, argues that we need to embrace failure in order to learn what works.

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Field notes

Building a global learning collective: our experience in Canada so far

In our recent training week in Canada, we explored how to bring the experience of a global collective into our learning programme

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Field notes

How government can recruit innovative talent

Dave Seliger, formerly of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Tech + Innovation, shares his tips for finding the right staff.

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