Learning to be more innovative

I’ve recently attended a couple of sessions exploring innovation organised by the Young Foundation as part of the London Collaborative.  At the first Geoff Mulgan spoke about how social innovations happen, what is it that makes them grow and become successful.  He mentioned the foundation’s social innovation exchange and that President Obama has set up [...]

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Are councils becoming the new priests?

I spent a very interesting day yesterday at the London Collaborative’s Behaviour Change symposium.  The session started with a presentation from Daniel Leighton (Young Foundation).  Daniel suggested that the current interest in behavioural change amongst policy makers, after many years of a technocratic approach, represents a re-discovery that human beings don’t always act rationally.  People’s [...]

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