<i>‘Public innovation has advanced significantly in the past decade — but it remains under-organized, under-institutionalized, and under-valued. In this timely book, Geoff Mulgan takes stock of the field he helped build and shows what must come next. At a moment of strained government legitimacy, his voice is both grounding and galvanizing.’</i>
- James Anderson, Lead, Government Innovation Programs, Bloomberg Philanthropies,
Key Features:
- Demonstrates how to generate, gather and assess promising ideas
- Evaluates the role of markets and competition
- Presents approaches used to identify, spread and scale efficient new methods
- Highlights ways to prevent government and political environments from crushing imaginative risk-taking
- Covers the benefits and drawbacks of diverse methods, from the organisation of specialist teams and labs to systemic change, and from different models of finance to the use of data and AI
Providing an accessible and rigorous framework, this Advanced Introduction is essential reading for practitioners working in both city and national governments, as well as scholars and students of public policy, public sector economics, regulation and governance, administration, management and organisational innovation.