Gender Equity is Critical for Government Innovation

Gender Equity is Critical for Government Innovation

Governments create for everyone. That can’t be successfully accomplished without gender equity at every step. By Amanda Daflos, Executive Director, Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation  Imagine a stretch of city sidewalk that doesn’t have street lighting.  On any...
Is Your Innovation Lab on the Map? Join the Research

Is Your Innovation Lab on the Map? Join the Research

Since the 1990s innovation efforts, teams, and staff have grown exponentially, but just how large is the public innovation field? You can help update the answers.  To date, 119 innovation units are being tracked from the global South to Asia, according to a...
New Research: Early Insights into Global Innovation Efforts

New Research: Early Insights into Global Innovation Efforts

Public innovation’s exponential growth in the last decade has helped bring to life a range of new, effective solutions in government – from the response to COVID-19 to reimagining parks and libraries. How are innovative leaders challenging systems? What does boundary...
The Sense of the City

The Sense of the City

By Tommi Laitio, Inaugural Bloomberg Public Innovation Fellow My husband and I arrived in Baltimore in January with four suitcases. We moved from Helsinki, Finland, so that I could begin my two-year fellowship at Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns...