Slidedeck for a roundtable conversation in Sydney 30 November 2017 on re-imagining innovation and policy labs.

1. Reimagining innovation
and policy labs
Sydney Policy Lab Roundtable
Brenton Caffin
30 November 2017
@bcaffin

2. Introductions and agenda

3. Questions for
this morning
Sydney Policy Lab Roundtable
1. What is the state of labs today?
2. What is the state of labs in Australia?
3. What is working well (and what’s not)?
4. How can we move lab practice
forward together?
@nesta_uk | @bcaffin

4. About Nesta

6. We are a global innovation foundation

7. Our priority fields of work
Health
Education
Government
innovation
The creative
economy, arts &
culture
Innovation
policy

9. #1: What is the state of labs
today?

10. A history of innovation labs
Source: Nesta
Source: Bridgespan

11. Emerging
issues
(not yet prioritised)
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Capacity
building
Solution
development

12. Capacity
building
Improving existing
public service systems
Changing how
government operates
Social contracts &
civic resilience
Place-based
creative problem-
solving
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Solution
development
Emerging
issues
(not yet prioritised)

13. Capacity
building
Improving existing
public service systems
Changing how
government operates
Social contracts &
civic resilience
Public
sector
innovation
Policy
innovation
Civic
innovation
Social
innovation
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Solution
development
Emerging
issues
(not yet prioritised)
Place-based
creative problem-
solving

14. Capacity
building
Improving existing
public service systems
Changing how
government operates
Social contracts &
civic resilience
Public
sector
innovation
Policy
innovation
Civic
innovation
Social
innovation
Too focused on
administrative capability and
efficiency
Community-level;
fragmented, not systemic
Lacks impact at scale
Too top-down;
incremental, lacks
inclusive user-focus
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Solution
development
Emerging
issues
(not yet prioritised)
Place-based
creative problem-
solving

15. Capacity
building
Improving existing
public service systems
Changing how
government operates
Social contracts &
civic resilience
Public
sector
innovation
Policy
innovation
Civic
innovation
Social
innovation
Too focused on administrative
capability and efficiency
Community-level;
fragmented, not systemic
Lacks impact at scale
Too top-down;
incremental, lacks
inclusive user-focus
From labs to
movements?
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Solution
development
Emerging
issues
(not yet prioritised)
Place-based
creative problem-
solving

16. Capacity
building
Improving existing
public service systems
Changing how
government operates
Social contracts &
civic resilience
Public
sector
innovation
Policy
innovation
Civic
innovation
Social
innovation
Too focused on administrative
capability and efficiency
Community-level;
fragmented, not systemic
Lacks impact at scale
Too top-down;
incremental, lacks
inclusive user-focus
Systems
change
Democratic
innovation
Institutional
change
Governance
redesign
?
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Solution
development
Government
innovation
Redesigning
the political
Future of enabling and mandating change?
Emerging
issues
Place-based
creative problem-
solving

17. #2: What is the state of labs in
Australia?

18. Emerging issues
(not yet prioritised)
Strategic
agendas
(government KPIs)
Capacity
building
Solution
development
Who is the room: where did you start and where are you now?

19. #3: What’s working well (and
what’s not)?

20. #4: How can we move lab
practice forward together?

21. http://www.states-of-change.org/

24. nesta.org.uk
@nesta_uk