1. Building innovation
capacity & leadership
Christian Bason, Director, MindLab

2. Framework
Systematic innovation
The innovation pyramid
Building capacity at all levels
Leadership
Courage to drive innovation

3. Shifts in innovation approaches
From random innovation to a conscious and
systematic approach to public sector renewal
From managing human resources to building
innovation capacity at all levels of government
From running tasks and projects to orchestrating processes
of co-creation creating new solutions with people, not for
co-creation,
them
From administrating public organisations to courageously
leading innovation across and beyond the public sector.

4. The innovation eco-system
COURAGE
(TO LEAD)
CONSCIOUSNESS CO-CREATION
(CREATING A NEW LANGUAGE) (ORCHESTRATING THE PROCESS)
CAPACITY
(POWER TO INNOVATE)

5. Capacity: The innovation pyramid
Context
Strategy
Organisation &
technology
People & culture

6. Managing political context
Politically governed organisation Market-
Market-based organisation
Institutional
context
Organisation
Objectives

7. Strategy: The innovation cycle
Strategic objectives
Innovation efforts
Outcomes
Funding

8. People: Competencies for innovation
Public administration
Law
Economics
Political science
...
Social research Design thinking
Anthropology Co-
Co-creating Design
Ethnology Architecture
Sociology Communication
Psychology ...
...
Profession
Medicine
Nursing
Pedagogics
Social work
Engineering
Technology
...

9. What is courage?
“Courage comes from the willingness to ‘die,’
to go forth into an unknown territory that
begins to manifest only after you dare to step
into that void. That is the essence of
leadership.”
C. Otto Scharmer, MIT