10 notes for reflection on public innovation, by Xavier Marcet

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Xavier Marcet's post is highly recommended 'Why will public innovation grow unstoppably?'where he summarizes his reflections presented at the Meet Up of the UC Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center in Chile.

A brief summary of some of the outstanding ideas of the post from the premise that public innovation is to create public value by applying new solutions:

  • Tools are needed to better explore in times of accelerated change. Planning is no longer enough.
  • Disruptive innovation will shake the foundations of legal security and the fiscal environment of states and cities. A recent and recent example: the Generalitat's fine on AirBnB. The answer cannot be bureaucratic, it will be necessary to look for an innovative one.
  • The administration runs the risk of being disinterested in some areas. It will have to adapt to the pressure of ever-increasing agility and mobility requirements.
  • The potential of Big Data will require to properly exploit sincere Open Data behavior of administrations.
  • 2 difficulties of public innovation management: risk management in the administration, born so that everything is predictable and; the management of failure, necessarily linked to innovation, which will require cultural change. Remember that cultural changes are the most complicated.
  • Public value creation models need to be more open and mixed public-private and more versatile. More liquid and adaptive.
  • Public management can be very motivating (its ultimate goal is the public good).
  • An agility revolution is needed. Adapt the philosophy Lean Startup in the public sector.
  • A new model of citizen participation is needed for innovation. Better to observe the citizen than to ask.
  • And as always: Leadership is needed for the cultural change that all this must entail.
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