Public sector innovation
Report
Towards a considered use of AI technologies in government
The purpose of this report is to provide policy-makers and practitioners in government with an overview of controversial deployments of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector, and to highlight some of the approaches being taken to govern the responsible use of these technologies in government.
Report
A new ethos for the civil service
What are the most appropriate institutional arrangements for effective governance? This report examines a case for transforming the civil service, and offers some suggestions about what a new ethos could look like.
Working paper
Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: how inequality and insecurity stifle innovation, and what we can do about it
This paper builds upon empirical evidence that more equal societies tend to be more innovative by exploring how inequality and insecurity can inhibit innovative activity at the individual level, both directly and indirectly, by diminishing the resources and capabilities which enable innovation.
Guide
A guide to adaptive government: preparing for disruption
This report provides government executives and managers with new strategies, techniques and tools to accelerate their digital transformation and prepare for the future in light of continuous disruption.
Working paper
New public management and innovation policy: a systematic literature review
Innovation policy, as it is practiced today, and new public management (NPM) reforms both emerged in the 1980s. So far, there is a limited number of studies focusing on the impact of NPM reforms on innovation policy. This paper offers the first systematic literature review on the topic.