We have put together a selection of innovation tools for local government. These are for local authorities seeking to introduce new ways of working that can help them find innovative ways to meet demands on their services.

The tools are broadly clustered into three stages of the innovation process: fostering innovation, the innovation design process and evaluation. It's not intended as to be a definitive guide to innovation, but rather a menu of different approaches that can help to support new perspectives and ways of thinking into local government.

The tools can be found below or by scrolling down the menu to the right.

Fostering innovation

# 1 Budgets for innovation
# 2 Procurement and commissioning
# 3 Systematic support for innovation
# 4 Supporting your entrepreneurs
# 5 Time-limited focus on innovation
# 6 Innovation as part of job roles
# 7 Innovation specialists
# 8 Learning through collaboration

Innovation design process

# 9 Creative ideas generation
# 10 Ideas generation by users
# 11 Ideas Bank
# 12 User-centred research
# 13 Systems analysis
# 14 Prototyping and piloting

Evaluation

# 15 Innovative evaluation and review