Welcome to this innovation workshop

Bringing great ideas to life

Looking outside towards other organisations, sectors, countries, and technologies allows people to access wider professional learning communities. Change is often fostered by taking existing ideas and technologies and re-translating them into different contexts for new users.

What does innovation mean to you?

Mobilising research

Developing networks and skills

Provide investments and grants

Working in partnership

with innovators

Nesta is an Independent charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life

“Public services in Wales are caught in a triple vice. Deep and continuing budget cuts, a growing ageing population and longer-term environmental pressures together represent an unprecedented challenge to the very fabric of services as we know them and, more importantly, the well-being of the citizens they serve.

The achievement of marginal efficiencies and implementation of existing best practice alone won’t be sufficient for the task ahead. To paraphrase Lloyd George, the chasm we face can’t be bridged in a series of small steps.” State of Innovation – Welsh Public Services and the challenge of change, Nesta, 2013

The current environment…..

- Wales can no longer rely on future economic growth to fund the model of public services

- A high proportion of jobs in Wales are within public services, creating significant challenges to the economy and people’s livelihoods as the austerity measures take hold

- Private sector lags behind the rest of the UK on virtually every indicators – business starts, R&D, profitability and productivity

- Wales has comparatively more older people than the UK average

- The level of chronic sickness is higher than in England - Child poverty levels are high in comparison to the other

nations of the UK

State of Innovation – Welsh Public Services and the challenge of change, Nesta, 2013

The current environment…..

Big challenges need new ideas and a new way of doing things – innovation

- One of the largest public sectors relative to population size of any European country

- One of the strongest social science bases for any country of its size

- Strong tradition of public and social innovation - Ideal size for systemic innovation- big enough to scale, small

enough to organise a coherent national strategy

“Wales has all the ingredients to become a global leader in experimental government, setting a new standard for how public services systematically innovate, experiment and apply what works”

State of Innovation – Welsh Public Services and the challenge of change, Nesta, 2013

Wales has a particular set of advantages that means it has the potential to be a global pioneer in public innovation:

The challenge is how to create the systemic conditions needed to deliver the scale and pace of change required?

State of Innovation – Welsh Public Services and the challenge of change, Nesta, 2013

Nesta’s phases of innovation

“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution” Albert Einstein

We rely on innovation to change whole systems…

Group challenge- Feeding 9 billion -The global population is set to reach 9 billion by 2050 -Demand for food is currently outstripping supply -900 million people are malnourished-An addition 1 billion suffer from ‘hidden hunger’ -9 million die each year from lack of food-Somewhere in the world a child dies every 12 seconds from hunger-related causes

Single innovations to a problem with a multitude of component parts will not do. We require systemic change.

•Task 1- In your groups map the causes of the global food crises (10 minutes)

Contributing factors

Underlying causes

Direct causes

Core problem

Core problem

Meat consumption

‘Freer food’ to Africa

Change in the Chinese food market

Biofuel surge Growing population

Rising food prices Climate change

Increased petrol prices

Land degradation

Water scarcity

Running out of quality land Sub Saharan Africa yields are less than a quarter of what they could be

We rely on innovation to change whole systems…

Group challenge- Feeding 9 billion

•Task 2- In order to properly define the problem select one of your identified causes and map the causes for that (10 minutes)

Poor infrastructure

Sub Saharan Africa yields are less than a quarter of what they could be

Lack of knowledge

Lack of skills

Dysfunctional markets

Access to finance

Limited access to technology

Unclear land rights

Harmful regulations and tax regimes

Unbalanced trade arrangements

Government systems that do not serve the interests of the poor

Group challenge- Feeding 9 billion •Task 3- Select one of the causes that you have identified and use a drivers of change matrix to start thinking about where solutions may lie (10 minutes)

Economic

Political

Social

Technological

Environmental

Next 5 – 10 years

List the drivers of change for the next 5 – 10 years across each category. List future events, ideas, products, partners, people etc

What to take from the last hour-

1.Innovation doesn’t always have to start big2.Think about what you can learn and adopt from other sectors or organisations 3.Think about systemic change and your role in making it happen 4.How ever big your challenge spend the time defining the problem

Jack SallabankNesta 07946 919 993 Jack.sallabank@nesta.org.uk