The Young Foundation, in conjunction with the Center for American Progress, is launching two new publications on public sector innovation at the Institute for Government.

Public sector innovation has been much talked about over the last decade. But less has been done to organise it systematically, even though there has been no shortage of innovative projects, programmes and ideas. With ever greater pressures to speed up the development and diffusion of approaches to raise public sector productivity, interest is growing in how to shape public service systems to accelerate innovation. How far can more open markets ‘solve' the innovation problem? What's the role of evidence? What's the role of social entrepreneurship? What are creative ways of designing finance?

In two new publications from the Center for American Progress (CAP), one of the leading think-tanks working closely with the Obama administration, Jitinder Kohli (former Director General at BIS, now on secondment to CAP) and Geoff Mulgan (director of the Young Foundation and former head of the Strategy Unit), make detailed recommendations about what could be done to speed up the development and scaling of new ideas. At the event they will be joined by a panel of experts for a conversation about what needs to be done in the UK.

Speakers include:

• Jitinder Kohli, former Director General at BIS, now on secondment to CAP

• Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation and former head of the Strategy Unit

• Jonathan Slater, Director General, Transforming Justice, Ministry of Justice

• Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer, Efficiency and Reform Group, CO

• Dr David Halpern, Deputy Director, Institute for Government

For further information or to attend please email events@instituteforgovernment.org.uk by Tuesday 5th October.