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Public Sector Innovation
Guest blog: Katy Mason on Public Sector Innovation
Open Innovation Team
The need for economic indicators
Julian Ashwin, a PhD student who worked with the Open Innovation Team for three months, completed a review of experimental economic indicators, using a framework to classify them.
Partnering with the Open Innovation Team
Information and documents for partnering with us in phase II.
Interview: PhD students reflect on their time in the OIT
Two recent secondees discuss their PhD research and OIT placement over the last three months.
Online Citizen Engagement
This blog post gives an introduction to online citizen engagement, what government has done in this area, and our work on the National Action Plan to improve participation in the future.
Data Science in Government
We have recently started a stream of data science projects to help accelerate government’s digital transformation. This post gives an introduction to data science and lists examples of its use in government.
Is distributed ledger technology the answer?
The growing cryptocurrency market has given distributed ledger technologies (in particular, blockchains) momentum throughout industry. There is growing enthusiasm for using these technologies within governments for identity, criminal evidence chains, and energy trading. Distributed ledger technology might sound like complicated …
Introducing the Open Innovation Team
Learn about the Open Innovation Team's work to deepen collaboration between government officials and academics.
Interview: PhD students explain what it’s like working in the OIT
Two of our current PhD students interview eachother to reflect on their work and experiences with the OIT over the last six months.
Tigers, Monkeys and Open Innovation
A French hedge fund manager told me of his frustrations when trying to connect people: “You bring the academics into the room, you bring the finance professionals into the room, you expect something to happen…but it does not. Because you …