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7 September 2021

Innovation Portfolios: Examples from Practitioners

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How do you manage a variety of innovation projects, with differing types of innovation, different goals, and perhaps different teams and funders? To avoid dealing with a mere list of projects, practitioners have recently become…

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Heather Buisman

13 July 2021

Adaptive Innovation: Making responsive and agile practices sustainable in the public sector

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Much of what the public sector seeks to do through innovation aims at making life simpler for citizens: adapting to evolving needs while also improving agility in the design and delivery of programs and services.…

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Angela Hanson

9 June 2021

Stewarding Innovation Portfolios for Collective System Change: Examples from Practice

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Innovation portfolio management is becoming a core practice for intentional and proactive public sector innovation units to prepare governments to address a diversity of current and future challenges. The practice: Helps build clarity of…

Emily Wise

11 May 2021

Stewarding innovation portfolios for the ecosystem: catalysing collective system change

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Editor’s note: This is a guest blog written by Emily Wise, Lund University action researcher for Future by Lund, Sweden. Lund municipality’s innovation platform, Future by Lund works to catalyse development activities for sustainable…

Chiara Bleckenwegner

24 March 2021

Lessons from the 2021 Mission-oriented Innovation Simulation

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Mission-oriented innovation helps the public sector direct innovation towards grand societal challenges. In the face of today’s wicked problems – from plastic pollution to rising inequalities – interest in mission-oriented innovation is growing across OECD…

Rowan Conway

15 December 2020

Dispatches from the 2020 Mission Oriented Innovation Bootcamp

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This article is jointly published on the UCL IIPP blog. As part of an ongoing partnership between the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and the OECD’s Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI),…

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