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Innovation - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about innovation in government and business.
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- Co-creating the Capital: towards a Digital Innovation Strategy for London
- This paper sets out some early thinking around what a Digital Innovation Strategy for London might look like. The aim of the Strategy would be to assess London public sector's current strengths and weaknesses in terms of digital engagement, crossorganisational collaboration and co-creation of services with Londoners themselves.
Added: 29 August 2011
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- Dotgovlabs Innovation Hub
- The UK DotGovLabs Innovation Hub is a virtual space enabling digital innovation of public services. It is part of the Cabinet Office Skunkworks programme and is backed by Francis Maude and with wide participation from across government. It aims to nurture digital innovation from outside government from the people who know digital. It is the part of the skunkworks programme that looks to ask the external community to show government what it should be doing with digital.
Added: 11 August 2011
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- Government's Role in Innovation
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 16 March 2012. "An event that seemed to promise a fight over government's proper role in innovation Thursday evening turned surprisingly conciliatory instead. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, an editor at The Economist and author of the new book Need, Speed, and Greed, about the postindustrial economy, threw the hardest blow... Vaitheeswaran's overarching point was that the old model of top down innovation, spurred from inside government, has seen its day. Instead, he argued, the best government can do is remove or correct misaligned economic incentives so the marketplace can force the best private-sector innovations to the top and let other competitors fail without a massive public investment..."
Added: 29 March 2012;
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- A definition for civic innovation
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.Govfresh, March 16, 2012. "... a better definition for civic innovation might be a new idea, technology or methodology that challenges and improves upon existing processes and systems, thereby improving the lives of citizens or the function of the society that they live within. Like the definition? Dislike it? Have ideas to improve it?..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- Tackling government innovation through a new funding model
- By Joseph Marks. Nextgov, 14 March 2012. "There's no shortage of ideas for ways to better leverage technology to improve health and education in the developing world and there's no shortage of people interested in putting those ideas into practice, the chief innovation officer for the United States Agency for International Development said Wednesday. The problem, Maura O'Neill said, is traditional funding models tend to scare off federal officials, who are wary of pumping money into unproven ideas that have to be scaled at a national or multinational level. If the ideas prove successful, there's some personal satisfaction, but if they flop the agency or division is tarred with wasting millions in taxpayer dollars..."
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector
- The Innovation Journal, The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 - Special Issue, Edited by Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Denmark. Contents include: 1. Introduction: Collaborative innovation in the public sector; Peer-Reviewed Papers: 2. Strategic and everyday innovative narratives: Translating ideas into everyday life in organizations; 3. Public policy, intermediaries and innovation system performance: A comparative analysis of Quebec and Ontario; 4. Powering collaborative policy innovation: Can innovation labs help? 5. Producing synergy in collaborations: A successful hospital case study; 6. Drivers and barriers of public innovation in crime prevention; 7. Stewards, mediators, and catalysts: Toward a model of collaborative leadership; 8. Barriers to credible innovations: Collaborative regional governance in the Netherlands; 9. Measuring the accountability of collaborative innovation Book Reviews: 10. Innovation in the Public Sector: Linking Capacity and Leadership; 11. Networks, Innovation and Public Policy: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathway to Change inside Government.
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- How San Francisco can get its gov 2.0 groove back
- by Luke Fretwell, GovFresh, January 26, 2012. "There's been a great deal of discussion lately around the topic of government innovation, especially here in San Francisco, with the appointment of a new chief innovation officer, a new 'civic accelerator', a new venture with a consortium of Bay Area technology companies and a new technology and innovation task force led by SF Mayor Ed Lee. All signs point to a bright gov 2.0 future for SF but, before we get too excited, let's look back so we can learn how to best overcome the past two years of innovation inertia..."
Added: 23 February 2012;
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- 7 Killers of Breakthrough Innovation
- by Nick Jankel. Public Sector Innovation Blog, February 15, 2012. "... Recent academic research across hundreds of companies and many many countries has now concluded that no matter how fine the tools, how sophisticated the process, how brilliant the minds, if the team does not have a culture – and therefore a set of embedded mindsets that nurture disruptive innovation – it is very unlikely to occur..."
Added: 21 February 2012;
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- White Paper - Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation
- by Innovation Excellence, Posted on February 15, 2012. "Authored by industry thought leader Braden Kelley and following on the heels of a recent webinar (link to recording) on the same topic, this white paper explores the intersection of talent management and open innovation strategies. The paper dives into why having an external talent strategy is becoming increasingly important and how it can help your company accelerate innovation, shows how leading organizations manage their open innovation and crowdsourcing efforts (including case study examples of companies like P&G), and provides proven strategies and steps to take for attracting talent to your organization’s innovation efforts..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- Open Innovator's Toolkit
- The White House - Open Government Initiative. "President Obama emphasizes a 'bottom-up' philosophy that taps citizen expertise to make government smarter and more responsive to private sector demands. This philosophy of 'open innovation' has already delivered tangible results in public and regulated sectors of the economy – areas like health IT, learning technologies, and smart grid – that are poised to deliver productivity growth and grow the jobs of the future. We have surfaced new or improved policy tools deployed by our government to achieve them. We've posted the Open Innovator's Toolkit as a roster of 20 leading practices that an 'open innovator' should consider when confronting any policy challenge – at any level of government. Our aspiration is to build upon this list, adding new tools and case studies to form an evidence base that will help to scale 'open innovation' across the public sector..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- An Open Innovation Toolbox
- Posted by Chris Vein. Open Government Initiative Blog, February 14, 2012. "The Obama Administration's innovation agenda is aimed at finding, testing, and scaling new ideas that change the way government conducts business and delivers services through engagement with the American people. An innovative government incorporates an entrepreneurial mindset into its daily work – taking risks, building lean organizations, and developing innovative products and services faster than the rest of the world. On his last day in office, then-U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra released the Open Innovator’s Practitioner’s Toolbox. It contains 20 of the best disruptive innovation practices conceived and built by entrepreneurs across government. They provide a rich set of guiding principles that any Federal, state, and local government can use to support rapid innovation supporting economic growth and job creation..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- Filters kill innovation: ex-US CIO Kundra
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, February 14, 2012. "Ex-US government chief information officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra believes that internal internet filters, like the one currently in place within the Federal Government, can stifle innovation, limit productivity and often miss the root cause of internal security breaches. "I think the natural inclination is to focus on the dark side of technology, and I think that falls truest when people say 'do you want innovation or security? Well, if you want security, don't connect anything to the internet at all, don't use any technology and don't let in modern society.' It's the argument that a lot of people advance, and I think that this is a false choice; innovation and security should co-exist," he said..."
Added: 14 February 2012;
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- Govt separates efficiency drive into ICT and 'other'
- Treasury says ICT improvement dealt with separately, By Stephen Bell - Wellington. Computerworld, Monday, 30 January, 2012. "Treasury is asking for 'innovative ideas for increasing efficiency or (sic) effectiveness' in government operations, but has explicitly excluded ICT proposals 'unless they are a necessary enabler to the broader idea'. ICT improvement, it says, is the province of a separate request, issued last September, and is being coordinated by the office of the government CIO..."
Added: 9 February 2012;
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- The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States - in pdf format (5097kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce, In consultation with the National Economic Council, January 2012. "... Innovation is the key driver of competitiveness, wage and job growth, and longterm economic growth. Therefore, one way to approach the question of how to improve the competitiveness of the United States is to look to the past and examine the factors that helped unleash the tremendous innovative potential of the private sector. Among these factors, three pillars have been key: Federal support for basic research, education, and infrastructure. Federally supported research laid the groundwork for the integrated circuit and the subsequent computer industry; the Internet; and advances in chemicals, agriculture, and medical science ..."
Added: 7 February 2012;
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- New Report: Investing in Innovation is Crucial to Economic Growth and Competitiveness
- by Quentin Palfrey and Brandon Belford, The White House Blog, January 6, 2012. "Today, the Commerce Department and the White House sent to Congress the Administration's plan on The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States, fulfilling an important requirement under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 which President Obama signed into law one year ago this month. As the report emphasizes, innovation has been a key driver of U.S. prosperity and competitiveness throughout our history. Government investments in the building blocks of innovation – basic research, education, and infrastructure – have helped fuel and sustain the ingenuity of the inventors and innovators. Innovation-based economic growth has brought us higher paying, higher quality jobs as well as improved health and quality of life..."
Added: 7 February 2012;
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- The Perils of Evidence-Based Government
- It's a powerful tool, but sometimes it might really be better to reinvent the wheel, By Babak Armajani. Governing, January 4, 2012. "... Whither Innovation? The first concern is the necessary tension between doing what has been proven and seeking a "better way." If everything we did were based on approaches that were proven elsewhere, how would there ever be innovation?..."
Added: 3 February 2012;
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- Internet guru: Digital self-organisation will spur growth
- EurActiv, 8 December 2011. "Beneath the current gloomy economic perspective in Europe, there is underlying opportunity, says Internet guru Don Tapscott. But in order to unleash this, companies, individuals and governments must embrace the transforming power of digital innovation, he told EurActiv.."
Added: 16 December 2011;
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This category last updated: 29 March 2012
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