Slotsholmsgade 12
DK-1216 Copenhagen
Denmark
T +45 3392 3144
info@mind-lab.dk
MindLab develops the public sector from within. We work across the public sector and involve citizens and businesses in creating better public solutions.
New PhD project in MindLabPublic managers as designers is the emphasis in Christian Basons PhD-project. Christian continues to lead MindLab, but will in parallel conduct PhD research focusing on the potential of design thinking as an appro-ach to leading innovation in government."
Australia wants a MindLabAustralian government recommends that the public service establishes a collaborative experimentation program, modelled on the Danish MindLab.
International interest in MindLabHong Kong, Helsinki, New York, Reykjavik, Madrid, Paris …in the previous months, there has been intense international interest in the way Danish ministries work with innovation
Networking to kick-start growth entrepreneursMindLab visited a range of Denmark’s best entrepreneurs to understand how government initiatives might be designed to help more growth entrepreneurs realise their businesses potential.
Safety and health at work – every dayInterviews and observation at selected work places inspired the Working Environment Authority to develop new ideas for communication that can promote safe behaviour at work.
Why is innovation a terrible word?
Like a wet bar of soap, ‘innovation’ somehow eludes a firm grip. We want it, but can’t really express it.
(Christian Bason, 12. 07. 2010)
Give me the map and I will reshape the territory
If you want to redraw the map, you cannot know the right thing to do in advance. Instead, you can accept that ‘the map’ needs constant redrawing.
(Jesper Christiansen, 31. 03. 2010)
Can diversity give us systematic innovation?
To drive innovation in public services, a homogenous welfare state like Denmark may need to embrace a much greater variance in delivery models, leaving the public sector as the ‘commissioner of outcomes’.
(Christian Bason, 16. 03. 2010)
Academic work I // sketch for a presentation. I take a shower. Make a cup of coffee. Nescafe. Hotel room.
(Nina Holm Vohnsen, 26. 10. 2009)
Must innovation labs be value-driven?
On October 12-13, 20 leaders of innovation labs gathered with academics and policy experts from the European Commission to formulate a vision for labs in Europe by 2020.
(Christian Bason, 25. 10. 2009)