Social Innovation Exchange

Cross sector collaborations

An important area of public sector innovation has been to encourage collaboration between public service workers and civil society, and make the boundaries between them more fluid.

Collaborative structures for more innovative service design and delivery

Collaborative structures for more innovative service design and delivery – such as Denmark’s School, Social Services and Policy Cooperation Scheme (SSP) for preventing juvenile crime, which...

Secondments

Secondments of public sector employees to community organisations and private enterprises, and vice versa....

Inside-outside teams

Inside-outside teams linking civil servants with social entrepreneurs and those working with communities as in Ontario’s Community Economic Development programme in the 1990s. Such teams can...

Volunteering in the public sector

Volunteering in the public sector. Encouraging volunteering within the public sector (for example in health, education and care), to bring in new perspectives as well as...