This document outlines the challenge of accelerating innovation in the European public sector. It proposes establishing an EU-level governance model and innovation platform to systematically drive public sector innovation across member states. Nine specific recommendations are made, including training 50,000 public leaders in innovation, establishing an EU Innovation Lab, setting up innovation delivery teams, and benchmarking public services. The overall ambition is to invest 5 billion euros over 5 years to achieve productivity gains of 50 billion euros through better and lower cost public services.

1. Powering European
Public Sector Innovation
Towards a New Architecture
Christian Bason
Chair, Expert Group
Director, MindLab

2. Agenda
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Background
Challenge
Vision
Platform
Recommendations
Ambition

3. Background: Brief

4. Background: The expert group

5. The challenge
EUROPE‘S PUBLIC SECTOR IN NEED OF
FASTER, BETTER, MORE RADICAL
INNOVATION

6. Challenge: EU under pressure
High and entrenched unemployment levels
Youth unemployment up to 50 pct.
Rising health care and social costs
Mismatch with citizen‘s expectations to public services
Slow uptake of new digital models
Failure to achieve better outcomes over time
Our public governance model is out of balance with
21st century demands.

7. Challenge: Barriers to innovation
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8. We can do better.

9. Challenge: Also a potential
• There is a strong legacy of collaboration among the
EU Member States
• A range of EU programmes already address public
sector innovation more or less indirectly
• There is an EU process for sharing experience on
public sector modernisation
• Now is the time to take these efforts to the next
level.

10. Vision: A new role of the state

11. Vision: Proactive
The role of government is changing from one
that is expected to ensure stability, resilience
and continuity to one which also must embrace
a strategic and systematic effort to manage
emergence and create positive change.“

12. Vision: Towards „Co“
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Co-design of innovative solutions
Collaborative public service models
Embracing technology disruptions
More experimentation and
entrepreneurship
• We need to discover the next
governance model.

13. Recommendations: Logic
• An EU-level governance
model for ensuring a
systematic, strategic effort
at EU level: 3 proposals
• A set of concrete actions
that will dramatically power
innovation efforts, EU-wide:
9 recommendations.

14. An EU innovation governance model
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Public sector innovation platform
chaired by the President of the EU
Commission
• Three year innovation
mainstreaming programme of all
major EU initiatives
• Catalyse an innovation movement to
build energy and momentum.

15. Nine concrete actions

16. 1. Deep dive innovation training &
network for 50.000 public leaders
2. „Right to challenge“ programme
3. EU Innovation Lab
Recommendations
Leading innovation

17. 4. Innovation Single Contact
Points
5. EU Innovation Delivery Teams
6. Accelerator for Digital
Innovation
7. Public Sector Angel Fund
Recommendations
Enabling innovation

18. 8. Dynamic Innovation Toolbox for
public managers
9. European Citizen‘s Scoreboard
to benchmark public services
Recommendations
Informing innovation

19. Ambition: A call for action
• EUR 5 billion investment over 5 years if
all efforts are fully implemented in EU
and MS
• Potential productivity gain in EUR 50
billion range
• Better public services and outcomes at
less cost.

20. Questions
• Which recommendations appear
most promising?
• How to keep the momentum in
2014?

21. Report
ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/PSI_EG.pdf