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What is an Innovation Lab?

Innovation labs are based on the idea that the competencies and mindsets needed for systematic innovation are not the same as those required for stable, daily operations and service delivery at the front line. Innovation labs seek to provide approaches, skills, models and tools beyond what most trained civil servants usually possess. This may call for the creation of dedicated ‘safe’ spaces and opportunities for collaboration on innovation across units, departments and sectors to assist the exploration phase of innovation. Labs typically involve key stakeholders, including end users such as citizens and businesses, in a process of co-creation. For governments this means crafting new solutions with people and not just for them.

With innovation labs, the hope is that the establishment of dedicated, cross-cutting organisational structures can strike a blow at vested interests, power plays, and organisational infighting. Labs do so by being permanent structures with a mission to temporarily unfreeze organisational embedded practices. (Powering Collaborative Policy Innovation: Can Innovation Labs Help? 2012.)

Innovation Hubs/Labs in the Government of Canada

Updates and activities happening within the Government of Canada Innovation Hubs and Labs community can be found on GCcollab

**Hubs and Labs Within the Government of Canada**
Department	Name of Hub/Lab/Team	Contact
Natural Resources Canada	OEE Social Innovation Unlab	frank.gale@canada.ca
Canada School of Public Service	Design & Learning Lab	Kony.Trudel@canada.ca
Développement économique Canada	Incubateur d'innovation	diego.dube@canada.ca

Innovation Communities in the Government of Canada

Multilateral Innovation Hubs

Academia

Canadian

International

Municipalities

City of Ottawa - Service Innovation
Bayview Yards - Your Ottawa Innovation Hub

Policy Think Tanks, Research Centers, and Consultancy Innovation Hubs

Commercialization Labs

GreenCentre Canada - Innovation in Chemistry
Deloitte Innovation Lab

National Government Innovation Hubs

Australia

APS Innovation

Denmark

MindLab

Finland

Sitra

South Africa

Centre for Public Service Innovation

Spain

Barcelona Urban Lab

Sweden

VINNOVA

United Kingdom

United States

Civil Society Labs

Resources

Update on hubs/labs prepared for June 17, 2016 Deputy Ministers' Committee on Policy Innovation meeting
NRCan's IN·spire Innovation Hub was mapping innovation (labs, hubs, funds, teams, etc.) around the world.
Innovation Lab Backgrounder (GCPedia) from the June 2014 Policy Bazaar
Innovation Labs: Bridging Think Tanks and Do Tanks (Policy Horizons Canada, 2012)
i-teams: The teams and funds making innovation happen in governments around the world (Nesta and Bloomberg Philanthropies, 2014)
Innovation Growth Lab-evaluates the impact of innovations in your orgnization
Subscribe to Nesta's Lab notes, a monthly digest from a network of labs that bring together interesting tools and news from public sector innovators around the world.
An Introduction to Policy Innovation, IPAC 2015
The rise of policy innovation labs: A catalog of policy innovation labs across Canada. Bryan Evans, Ryerson University: August 2018

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