Breakout Session 1: Capacity for Innovation

11h30 – 13h00

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What stops good ideas becoming implemented innovations? Cultural inertia, lack of leaders’ support, inadequate time and resources and skills mismatch may hinder the capacity of government to achieve effective innovations. What are the strategic policy issues that governments need to consider to tackle some of these challenges? This session addresses issues such as how to achieve culture change, get buy in from leaders, develop a workforce with the skills and competencies for innovation and ensure that innovation has the space and resources necessary to succeed.

Moderator: Geert Bouckaert, President, International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) 

Discussants:

• Gary Banks, Dean and CEO of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government
• Beatrix Behrens, Head of Division, HR Policies, Federal Employment Agency, Germany
• Dustin Brown, Deputy Assistant Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, United States
• Åsa Erba-Stenhammar, Head Negotiator, Union of Civil Servants, Sweden