One small step for an official, one giant leap for an academic
I recently decided to do something a little drastic. After eight years in academia, I joined the Cabinet Office in January for a three month placement working as a Policy Advisor in the Open Innovation...
View ArticleExplained: how to evaluate open innovation
The Open Innovation Team (OIT) is a great example of disruptive innovation in government. This blog outlines how Lancaster University academics evaluated our impact.
View ArticleHow I’m helping to shape your digital future
Maya Singer-Hobbs, a PhD secondee with the Open Innovation Team, reflects on her work with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.
View ArticleOur top five priorities for the next three years
Our strategy has five main pillars: increase our policy impact, raise our profile, diversify our income, improve management and deliver benefits for our partners.
View ArticleDutch courage: lessons on policy-making from the Netherlands
Takeaways on evidence and policy from a recent event in the Netherlands.
View ArticleThe promise and perils of online targeting
Who's watching you online? Professor David Beer introduces his CDEI-commissioned review of the evidence related to online targeting practices, produced in collaboration with OIT.
View ArticleThought Experiment: how we brought the world’s leading thinkers to Whitehall
A look back at our Thought Experiment speaker series, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.
View ArticleAlgorithms: The good, the bad, and the biased
How are biases in algorithmic systems affecting people today, and what can we do about this? Professor Michael Rovatsos introduces his CDEI-commissioned review of the evidence related to algorithmic...
View ArticleA blockchain prototype for UK Export Finance
Michael Carpenter, former innovation lead at UK Export Finance, explains why they developed a blockchain prototype with the University of Southampton.
View ArticleFive big challenges for government innovation
Chris Webber reflects on some key points from recent conferences in Birmingham and Seoul.
View ArticleWorking with the Open Innovation Team
How we approach projects and what we deliver for policy-makers.
View ArticleGrowth: cautionary tales from history
Historian Sheilagh Ogilvie explains what lessons policymakers should take from the UK's past economic development.
View ArticleHow to get a job in the Civil Service
Some advice for prospective applicants to the Civil Service.
View ArticleHow we work
As regular readers will know, the Open Innovation Team works with academics and other experts to help generate analysis and ideas for policy. We recently refreshed the slides we use to introduce...
View ArticleCelebrating our 50th PhD placement
One fantastic and unusual feature of the Open Innovation Team is that lots of PhD students come to work with us on placements of 3-6 months. Our first PhD student joined us back in 2016, and now, four...
View ArticleWorking Remotely for the Open Innovation Team
Beth Francis, one of our recent PHD interns, shares her experience of joining the OIT remotely during the pandemic. I applied to do a placement with the Open Innovation Team at the end of 2019, in my...
View ArticleLearn how to influence policy
It’s hard to influence policy. A huge number of people and organisations are involved, debates are complicated and fast moving, the language is often difficult to understand and responsibilities can...
View ArticleCivil Service Reform
People often ask for more information on the kind of work we do so we like to share a bit more detail here on the blog when we’re able to. One interesting set of projects we delivered recently looked at …
View ArticleNo longer updated
The Open Innovation Team have moved from the Cabinet Office and no longer maintain this blog. For up-to-date information about our team, visit our Gov.uk pages.
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