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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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Misha Kaur

26 July 2021

Remembering the ‘why’ of innovation

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“We create and re-create narratives throughout our lives to make sense of what happened, to process experience, to interpret and reinterpret our view of the world as life unfolds. I believe that beautiful and…

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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…

Angela Hanson

11 June 2020

OPSI seeks cases and examples of innovation management

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Do you know about real-world cases and examples of innovation management? OPSI would like to hear from you. We are starting work with Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency to explore what good innovation management looks…

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Ed Straw

26 May 2020

Systemic Governing – Applied systems thinking in practice

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Guest blog from the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group, School of Engineering & Innovation, The Open University (UK) Systems thinking in times of complex challenges The Covid-19 pandemic has shown what governments can do…

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