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Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Government
Cities are reinventing themselves to adapt and respond to their evolving contexts. One instrument that local government is leveraging is innovation. To understand how cities approach public sector innovation, the OECD and Bloomberg Philanthropies carried out a survey on innovation capacity across 89...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- 1. Understanding innovation in cities
- Innovation and innovation capacity
- What is innovation?
- What is public sector innovation?
- What is innovation capacity?
- Why do governments focus on innovation?
- Why do governments innovate?
- How do governments innovate?
- What factors have led to successful public sector innovation in the past?
- What is limiting cities' innovation capacity?
- Organisational and cultural barriers
- Limited data management capacity
- Limited access to new technological developments
- Limited participation and support from citizens
- Methodology and survey insights
- Analytical framework
- Clustering of cities
- Notes
- References
- 2. Innovation capacity in cities
- an empirical perspective
- Strategy and goals
- Formulate an innovation strategy with a clear political message
- Innovation strategies help build a city's innovation activities
- Organisational arrangements
- Advance new organisational structures that shape innovation capacity
- Installation of innovation units/teams
- The specific features of the workplace can largely impact innovation capacity
- Leadership is an essential ingredient for supporting innovation capacity in cities
- Specific innovation units may have a major impact on cities' capacity to innovate
- Innovation teams generally sit at the mayors' or city manager's office
- Innovation units are generally understaffed and are led by project managers
- Set up a specific financing framework
- Human resource management and administrative culture
- Invest in the capacity and capability of local public servants
- Promote a culture of reasonable risk taking
- Create or engage in networks that allow learning
- Data management capability
- Produce and use data for decision making
- Cities need to improve their data management capability
- An increased reliance on data tends to increase cities' familiarity with innovation practices
- Create collaborative partnerships with external actors to strengthen data management capability
- Foster the move to open data
- Leveraging partnerships for innovation
- Promote collaboration with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Partnering with citizens for innovation
- Cities give great importance to engaging with citizens
- Improving engagement with citizens may require organisational and operational changes
- Collaboration with the private and non-profit sectors
- Note
- References
- 3. Cities' innovation capacity
- the way forward
- Assessing innovation outcomes
- Why assessing innovation matters
- How cities assess the impact of innovation projects
- What problems are encountered to assess innovation
- Innovation is helping cities improve services, operations and resident outcomes
- The gaps in the research agenda
- A checklist for enhancing cities' innovation capacity
- Next steps
- Notes