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18 December 2018

Missions: 21st Century Drivers of Innovation?

With the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, OPSI reflects on mission-oriented innovation, in the context of its Innovation Facets model.

Rebecca Santos

3 December 2018

Steps, leaps and bounds: Reflecting on the OPSI 2018 conference

Event, Innovation Toolkit, Updates on OPSI

OPSI held its conference 'Innovation in Government: Steps, leaps and bounds' on the 19 and 20 of November 2018, convening leaders and innovators from around the world in Paris.

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26 November 2018

Crafting an innovation profession for government

Innovation Facets

Christian bason, from the Danish Design Centre, critically engages with OPSI's new Innovation Facets model.

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20 November 2018

New Report – The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada

Country Studies, How to innovate, Research, Systems Thinking, Updates on OPSI

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19 November 2018

OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation – Public Consultation Open through 22 February

Innovation Declaration, Updates on OPSI

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A diamond shape made up of four smaller diamonds. The point of the diamond on the left points towards the words certainty and exploiting/incremental. The point of the diamond on the right points towards the words Uncertainty and exploring/radical. The point of the diamond at the top points to the words Directed and shaping/top-down. The point of the diamond at the bottom points to the words Undirected and responding/bottom-up. The four smaller diamonds are all labelled. the one on the left being 'Enhancement-oriented innovation', the one at the bottom 'Adaptive innovation', the one at the top 'Mission-oriented innovation', the one on the right 'Anticipatory innovation'. The four smaller diamond shapes are separate from each other by an X shape. In the words between each of the diamonds, are descriptions. Between Enhancment-oriented innovation and mission-oriented innovation there is 'sustaining change', between mission-oriented innovation and anticipatory innovation there is 'transformative change', between anticipatory innovation and adaptive innovation there is 'disruptive change', and between adaptive innovation and enhancement-oriented innovation there is optimising change.

Alex Roberts

14 November 2018

Innovation facets part 6: Anticipatory innovation

How to innovate, Innovation Facets, Updates on OPSI

In the last post in our innovation facets series, we went through what is involved in adaptive innovation. In this post, we take a look at the anticipatory innovation facet – what it is, what…

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