Supporting local government to innovate

Over the past few weeks we've been uploading a selection of “tools for innovation" onto the website. They’re aimed at local government and take account of the environment the sector works within. We know that local government has a great tradition of innovating imaginatively and there's growing interest in how the sector can take this forward more systematically.

The tools can be 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 in local government. The list can be found here. Let us know if you have any comments!