A call for stronger theorization of public sector innovation labs
<p>This blog is the first in a series that tells stories from the second iteration of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab (SLab), which ran from July 2018 — February 2020. This post is written from my points of view as a practitioner and an academic, and it’s infused by my current Ph.D. research into the transformative potential of Public Sector Innovation Labs. This first post advocates for stronger theorization of public sector innovation (a.k.a. different ways of thinking about how change happens) using the experiences from Vancouver’s SLab as a case.</p>
<p>Innovation is a fuzzy word that is widely used in the public sector, yet rarely defined and described clearly in practice. Stronger theorization would force practitioners and academics to make choices, get explicit, and be articulate about what we do and do not mean when we practice “innovation”.</p>
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