This section aims to understand how your municipality builds and maintains innovation capacity in the public sector, and what innovation capacity means and looks like in your city administration. It also aims to understand your city’s goals and strategy for innovation in the public sector, as well as the approaches your city uses to innovate within the administration.
We provide here working definitions of innovation capacity, innovation goals and innovation strategy (you may have different definitions):
Within a municipal administration, innovation capacity includes the human, financial and institutional resources and skills that can catalyse, implement and advance cutting-edge, inclusive, long-term and bottom-up problem solving. These resources and skills may include some of the approaches noted in the survey question below (Question 1.3), including: data analytics, resident engagement, human-centered design or other iterative design methods, behavioural economics, and inter-sectoral and inter-jurisdictional collaboration.
Innovation goals are aspirational outcomes or impacts, in both the short and long term, which deliver better outcomes for residents, businesses and the community.
A city’s innovation strategy is a course forward for how to achieve innovation goals.