People-led innovation: Methodology for solving urban problems

A guide presenting a flexible approach to engage people in addressing public challenges in urban settings.

This methodology, developed by The GovLab and Bertelsmann Foundation, aims to empower public entrepreneurs, particularly city-level government officials, to engage the capacity and lived experience of people in solving major public challenges. It incorporates lessons learned from multiple experiments and practices - including those by The GovLab such as Civic Challenges and Smarter Crowdsourcing – while drawing heavily on the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Transatlantic Policy Lab project, which used week-long living labs in Boston and Athens to source innovative and neighborhood-specific recommendations.

Source: The GovLab , Bertelsmann Foundation
Author information and contact: Andrew Young, Jeffrey Brown, Hannah Pierce and Stefaan Verhulst
Language: English

Year of publication: 2018