Powering European Public Sector Innovation
Towards a New Architecture
Christian Bason Chair, Expert Group Director, MindLab
Agenda
• Background
• Challenge
• Vision
• Platform
• Recommendations
• Ambition
Background: Brief
Background: The expert group
EUROPE‘S PUBLIC SECTOR IN NEED OF FASTER, BETTER, MORE RADICAL INNOVATION
The challenge
Challenge: EU under pressure
High and entrenched unemployment levels
Youth unemployment up to 50 pct.
Rising health care and social costs
Mismatch with citizen‘s expectations to public services
Slow uptake of new digital models
Failure to achieve better outcomes over time
Our public governance model is out of balance with
21st century demands.
Challenge: Barriers to innovation
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We can do better.
Challenge: Also a potential
• There is a strong legacy of collaboration among the EU Member States
• A range of EU programmes already address public sector innovation more or less indirectly
• There is an EU process for sharing experience on public sector modernisation
• Now is the time to take these efforts to the next level.
Vision: A new role of the state
Vision: Proactive
The role of government is changing from one that is expected to ensure stability, resilience and continuity to one which also must embrace a strategic and systematic effort to manage emergence and create positive change.“
Vision: Towards „Co“
• Co-design of innovative solutions • Collaborative public service models • Embracing technology disruptions • More experimentation and
entrepreneurship • We need to discover the next
governance model.
Recommendations: Logic
• An EU-level governance model for ensuring a systematic, strategic effort at EU level: 3 proposals
• A set of concrete actions that will dramatically power innovation efforts, EU-wide: 9 recommendations.
An EU innovation governance model
• Public sector innovation platform chaired by the President of the EU Commission
• Three year innovation mainstreaming programme of all major EU initiatives
• Catalyse an innovation movement to build energy and momentum.
Nine concrete actions
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Leading innovation
1. Deep dive innovation training & network for 50.000 public leaders
2. „Right to challenge“ programme
3. EU Innovation Lab
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Enabling innovation
4. Innovation Single Contact Points
5. EU Innovation Delivery Teams
6. Accelerator for Digital Innovation
7. Public Sector Angel Fund
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Informing innovation
8. Dynamic Innovation Toolbox for public managers
9. European Citizen‘s Scoreboard to benchmark public services
Ambition: A call for action
• EUR 5 billion investment over 5 years if all efforts are fully implemented in EU and MS
• Potential productivity gain in EUR 50 billion range
• Better public services and outcomes at less cost.
Questions
• Which recommendations appear most promising?
• How to keep the momentum in 2014?
Report
ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/PSI_EG.pdf
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