Innovation as an ethical dilemma
...and various techniques from ethnography to data analytics can be used to aggregate knowledge. Many governments install new organisations, such as policy labs, to bring the new skills into the...
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Our top five priorities for the next three years
The Open Innovation Team Oliver Dowden announced our new £1 million three year funding deal with university partners last week. We’re delighted to be working with Brunel, Essex, Lancaster and...
Public sector innovation
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Katy Mason, Posted on:
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Innovation, Open Government, Open Innovation Team, Research
...make it difficult to innovate. In a recent study to understand how innovations can be catalysed, we found that it can take an outsider or a new incomer’s questions to...
Where could distributed ledger technology be a good fit for government?
...be worth considering the use of a central database instead. Difficulties with new technologies Like all new technologies, DLT may be difficult to introduce. There are three main concerns: Data...
Interview: PhD students reflect on their time in the OIT
...quickly and independently on a new task, general communication skills, and how to confront a new challenge head on. I also feel I’ve developed my networking skills and how to...
Interview: PhD students explain what it’s like working in the OIT
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Elizabeth Atkinson, Posted on:
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Experiences, Interviews, Open Innovation Team, Reflections/Thought pieces
We’re Rosa and Sophia, PhD students from Cambridge University, currently working in the Open Innovation Team (OIT). OIT is a new unit based in the Cabinet Office that works to...
Working Remotely for the Open Innovation Team
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Olivia O'Sullivan, Posted on:
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How we work, Innovation, Reflections/Thought pieces, Skills
...feel incredibly welcome. I found that starting something totally new online was a novel but useful experience. I imagine that working from home is going to become more of a...
Five big challenges for government innovation
...Innovation necessarily involves experimentation, learning and adaptation Introducing a new product or service is a complex process that’s certain to involve unexpected twists. We don’t do ourselves any favours when...
Dutch courage: lessons on policy-making from the Netherlands
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Olivia O'Sullivan, Posted on:
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Events, Innovation, International, Open Innovation Team
...to “distribute failure” and teaching civil servants to “cherish criticism” from outside experts. We often set a high bar for evidence when it comes to new ideas, but we don’t...
Explained: how to evaluate open innovation
The Open Innovation Team (OIT) is a great example of disruptive innovation in government: in 2016 they crafted a completely new way of securing resources, creating services of value to...