Retrospective

Building innovation capacity in the public sector: How Chile is raising the bar with Experimenta

Three years after Chile’s Laboratorio de Gobierno launched Experimenta - an innovation capacity building programme for civil servants - this review looks at its key outcomes and how we can learn from the programme.

Field notes

States of Change in Victoria: Week one

Looking back at the first week working with the Victorian civil servants in our learning programme.

Concepts

Exploring the unobvious: an overview

This post introduces a series of three stories from Nesta’s Innovation Skills team arguing that we need to build a more experimental culture in governments to develop better solutions, and exploring how to do so in practice.

Provocation

Exploring the unobvious: why governments need to experiment outside their comfort zone

Bureaucracies tend to explore only a small, fairly predictable subset of solutions. In this series of stories, we argue that instead they should embrace experimental practice in order to move beyond the obvious and develop better outcomes.

Article

Moving from methods to mindsets

Why we need to go beyond methods, and instead build a mindset that allows us to explore unobvious solutions.

Concepts

The six principles of experimental practice

Principles to help governments unlock and explore the unobvious, and improve their problem-solving abilities.

Updates

States of Change public innovation learning programmes running in Australia and Canada

We're partnering with the Victorian State Government in Australia and the Privy Council in Canada’s federal government to run our 9-12 month programme, which focuses on building innovation capacity by working on real projects and creating culture change.

Concepts

The skills and attitudes behind successful problem solving

A framework that outlines the skills, attitudes and behaviours in teams of public innovators.

Article

Towards an experimental culture in government: reflections on and from practice

Five reflections on how we can make better use of experimental approaches in government.

Stories

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Building innovation capacity in the public sector: How Chile is raising the bar with Experimenta

States of Change in Victoria: Week one

Exploring the unobvious: an overview

Exploring the unobvious: why governments need to experiment outside their comfort zone

Moving from methods to mindsets

The six principles of experimental practice

States of Change public innovation learning programmes running in Australia and Canada

The skills and attitudes behind successful problem solving

Towards an experimental culture in government: reflections on and from practice

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Stories

Filter 'Blog' by:

Building innovation capacity in the public sector: How Chile is raising the bar with Experimenta

States of Change in Victoria: Week one

Exploring the unobvious: an overview

Exploring the unobvious: why governments need to experiment outside their comfort zone

Moving from methods to mindsets

The six principles of experimental practice

States of Change public innovation learning programmes running in Australia and Canada

The skills and attitudes behind successful problem solving

Towards an experimental culture in government: reflections on and from practice

Let's work together

A newsletter about public innovation.

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