NESTA Report: Innovation In Public Sector Organisations

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NESTA is the UK's foremost independent expert on how innovation can solve some of the country's major economic and social challeges.

Co-authored by Alastair Hughes, Kyla Moore and Nimesh Kataria, this pilot survey aims to measure innovation across the public sector. It's early findings provide useful insights in to both how innovation is happening in these parts of the public secrot ans also the potential for widening the delivery of a public secrot innovation survey tool.

 

Mass Localism: Helping Small Communities Solve Big Social Challenges

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Launched earlier this year by London based social innovation incubator NESTA, this report draws learnings and insights from The Big Green Challenge on how small and high quality local solutions can address social challenges in a larger scale.

Written by NESTA's Public and Social Innovation Lab Director Michael Harris in collaboration with Laura Bunt, Public & Social Innovation Advisor for NESTA; the report discusses new approaches to an all times social dilemma: How can localism support and sustain genuine local solutions while achieving national impact and scale.

Divided in three chapters, it is particularly interesting the discussion in the second part around the issues stopping localism from reaching a wider audience as an effective and valid approach to social challenges.

Great read (as usual from NESTA).

More here.