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Open Innovation Team
Civil Service Reform
People often ask for more information on the kind of work we do so we like to share a bit more detail here on the blog when we’re able to. One interesting set of projects we delivered recently looked at …
Learn how to influence policy
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Oliver Davies, Posted on:
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Experiences, Open Innovation Team, Tools & Techniques
It’s hard to influence policy. A huge number of people and organisations are involved, debates are complicated and fast moving, the language is often difficult to understand and responsibilities can seem unclear. It’s extremely challenging even for officials working as …
Celebrating our 50th PhD placement
One fantastic and unusual feature of the Open Innovation Team is that lots of PhD students come to work with us on placements of 3-6 months. Our first PhD student joined us back in 2016, and now, four years later, …
How we work
As regular readers will know, the Open Innovation Team works with academics and other experts to help generate analysis and ideas for policy. We recently refreshed the slides we use to introduce ourselves to public sector policy customers, so we …
How to get a job in the Civil Service
Some advice for prospective applicants to the Civil Service.
Working with the Open Innovation Team
How we approach projects and what we deliver for policy-makers.
Five big challenges for government innovation
Chris Webber reflects on some key points from recent conferences in Birmingham and Seoul.
A blockchain prototype for UK Export Finance
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Michael Carpenter, Posted on:
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Digital, Innovation, Open Innovation Team, Projects
Michael Carpenter, former innovation lead at UK Export Finance, explains why they developed a blockchain prototype with the University of Southampton.
Thought Experiment: how we brought the world’s leading thinkers to Whitehall
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Christopher Webber, Posted on:
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Events, Innovation, Open Government, Open Innovation Team
A look back at our Thought Experiment speaker series, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.