Innovation System Archives - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/tag/innovation-system/ Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:02:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Remembering the ‘why’ of innovation https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/remembering-the-why-of-innovation/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/remembering-the-why-of-innovation/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:17:04 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=26369 “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 difficult process is what it is to be human.” Lauren Oakes For me, significant transitions in life prompt such introspection and recreation of narratives – to reflect on key moments that have shaped who I am and how I think. Recently,...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/remembering-the-why-of-innovation/feed/ 13 OPSI seeks cases and examples of innovation management https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-management-examples/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-management-examples/#respond Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:34:33 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=21320 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 like in practice. We will take a systematic approach to understanding the role, nature, barriers, and enablers of innovation in an organisation. This means considering innovation activities within a wider context of (e.g., leadership, culture, processes, capabilities) rather than as one-off...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-management-examples/feed/ 0 Innovation in the Time of Coronavirus https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:04:14 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=18998 “Everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error, but the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.”– Dr Michael Ryan, WHO Executive Director, WHO Press Conference (13/03/2019) The stakes for innovation have never been higher, the risk of failing has never felt greater. Whenever an organisation innovates they are always taking a step into the unknown, with...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/feed/ 1 A scan of the Israeli public sector innovation system https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/a-scan-of-the-israeli-public-sector-innovation-system/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/a-scan-of-the-israeli-public-sector-innovation-system/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:30:21 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=16904 Making the invisible visible. While this is one of my favourite phrases from our 2019 Global Trends report, it is also the phrase I find myself using to describe OPSI’s work with public sector innovation systems. We try to make the implicit explicit to allow people within the system to reflect “is this what we want and intended? If not, what can we do to change it?” And every system is unique and the evolution...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/a-scan-of-the-israeli-public-sector-innovation-system/feed/ 0 New Report – the Innovation System of the Public Service of Brazil https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-brazil/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-brazil/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:40:34 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=13131 English Today the OECD reports The Innovation System of the Public Service of Brazil: An exploration of its past, present and future journey and Innovation skills and leadership in Brazil’s public sector were launched by Marcos Bonturi, Director of Public Governance, at the Brazilian public sector Innovation Week. The Innovation System of the Public Service of Brazil is the second OECD deep-study of a national government’s public sector innovation system. It provides insights into how...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-brazil/feed/ 0 ‘Walking the walk’: Welsh Education Directorate becomes a ‘Learning Organisation’ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/walking-the-walk-welsh-education-directorate-becomes-a-learning-organisation/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/walking-the-walk-welsh-education-directorate-becomes-a-learning-organisation/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:19:08 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=11793 For better or worse, the minutiae of government operations can easily fly under the radar of the average person. Not so, in the domain of education. The success or failure of an education system hits close to home, as most people have been through it. If they later come to care for learners who go to school, any faraway memories of textbooks and schoolyard games transmute into something more urgent. The school becomes a locus...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/walking-the-walk-welsh-education-directorate-becomes-a-learning-organisation/feed/ 0 Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part II: Testing it in Sweden https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-exploration-part-ii-testing-our-workshop-in-sweden/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-exploration-part-ii-testing-our-workshop-in-sweden/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:25:19 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=10794 This post is a follow-on from our Part I post, which provided an overview of the design and development of our Innovation Portfolio Exploration workshop based on OPSI’s Innovation Facets model. Earlier this month, we facilitated a workshop with those from the public sector innovation ecosystem in Sweden. We were hosted by Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency. Vinnova invests 287 million euros annually in research and innovation projects across public, private, and academic sectors, especially in...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-exploration-part-ii-testing-our-workshop-in-sweden/feed/ 0 Portfolio Exploration Workshop – Part I: Theory into Practice https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/portfolioexplorationworkshop/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/portfolioexplorationworkshop/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:07:59 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=10781 All models are wrong, but some are useful Over the last few months, OPSI has been testing a model for public sector innovation based on our experiences with system-level studies in Canada and Brazil. As the field of public sector innovation grows and diversifies, we need a more nuanced understanding of its purposes and mechanisms for its stewardship.  The multi-faceted innovation model provides a common language and a way to contextualise the purpose of innovation....

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/portfolioexplorationworkshop/feed/ 1 Steps, leaps and bounds: Reflecting on the OPSI 2018 conference https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/steps-leaps-and-bounds-reflecting-on-the-opsi-2018-conference/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/steps-leaps-and-bounds-reflecting-on-the-opsi-2018-conference/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:13:15 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=6745 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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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/steps-leaps-and-bounds-reflecting-on-the-opsi-2018-conference/feed/ 1 New Report – The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/new-report-the-innovation-system-of-the-public-service-of-canada/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/new-report-the-innovation-system-of-the-public-service-of-canada/#respond Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:40:16 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=6540 Today, the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) is pleased to announce the release of The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada, the first of the OECD’s reviews of a national public sector innovation system. The report was launched at a panel discussion at OPSI’s conference “Innovation in Government: Steps, Leaps and Bounds” with speakers including: Marco Daglio, Head of the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, OECD Rodney Ghali, Assistant Secretary of...

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