26/03 2013

What implications does it have for our service systems when the citizen is the starting point for public innovation? MindLabs Jesper Christiansen gives his perspectives on Nestas blog.

22/03 2013

France has decided to open a cross-ministeriel innovation lab by inspiration of MindLab. Read about it in the French news paper, Les Echos , or in the French media Journal des Communes (translated). Find the direct links here Les Echos, Journal des Communes.

22/03 2013

How can design thinking lead to more effective public services? Read the interview with Christian Bason in the magazine Development Post.

22/03 2013

CBS Public-Private Platform and MindLab are the organizers of ‘Collaboratory Week’ from 21 – 24 of May. The focus of the week is on how to move from policy into practice. Among others you meet Chief Executive of the British Think Tank Nesta, Geoff Mulgan. Read more.

07/03 2013

How do we ensure collaboration with all the actors who can potentially make a controbution to the challenges we face? Can juvenile first time offenders be sentenced by youths with a criminal record? To see the citizens’ resources and design welfare with them rather than to them – that is what we call co-production. Read cases and useful principles on the subject in this pamphlet.

28/02 2013

Read Christian Basons reflections on design-led innovation in the public sector and the three challenges it raises.

04/02 2013

In MindLab’s result report we look at what value MindLab has created through selected pieces of work from the last two years. The report conveys everything from long-term projects to teaching, research activities, seminars and workshops.

31/01 2013

See Christian Bason’s presentation at IPAA, an international conference about public development. The conference was held in Melbourne.

04/01 2013

In ‘MindLab Reflections’ we address central challenges to the development of the public sector. Now the third article of the serial has been published. Here MindLab’s Jesper Christiansen and Laura Bunt from the British Think Tank Nesta explore how introduction of innovation processes in the public sector requires new principles for public management. "

14/12 2012

Charles Leadbeater stopped by MindLab to give a very interesting presentation on system innovation and scaling.

30/10 2012

As a part of the Ministry of Children and Education’s effort to create strong professional day-care offers and education for all children in Denmark, the ministry now enters as a part of MindLab from the 1st of January 2013. Simultaneously the Ministry of Taxation steps out of the group of owners, and MindLab’s group of owners consists as of January 1st 2013 of the Ministry of Business and Growth, the Ministry of Employment and the Ministry of Children and Education.

29/10 2012

iZone is New York’s version of how to challenge the education system. The team behind iZone stopped by MindLab and shared their most important learning from the last two years working with the project.

19/09 2012

See short films with key note speakers from the conference Collaboratory which was a collaboration between MindLab and CBS.

10/09 2012

European Design Leadership Board is a col-lection of researchers scientists and prac-ticians across Europe. MindLab is a member of the board, which has now given its recommendations. In the report the board identifies six strategic areas, where design needs to play a role.

10/09 2012

The OECD has focus on user involvement in the tax authorities’ work on getting enter-prises to comply with the rules. In this oc-casion MindLab conducts a workshop for the OECD, where 15 countries are brought together to exchange experiences and give inputs to the forthcoming OECD report.

10/09 2012

MindLab is visiting the Danish Embassy in London during the Design Festival. Christian Bason is giving a presentation on how design can be brought to bear on the policymaking process.

07/09 2012

The British think tank “Institute for´Government” has used MindLab as case in a new report. “Opening up policy making” is the title of the report, where they globally have collected deferent models of more open policy making.

19/04 2012

Design, user involvement and visualization of figures gave the abstract discussions on EU regulation a concrete character, visibility and presence.

20/02 2012

MindLab participated in a discussion of the UK Government’s Big Society vision in relation to co-creation of public services. Read The Guardian’s report and the summary from the newspaper’s own Public Services Summit. Also watch the video from a speech on public sector innovation at the Overseas Development Institute.