Developing the Public Sector Capabilities Index : Phase I synthesis report

Authored by the IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index team

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Developing the Public Sector Capabilities Index: Phase I synthesis report, September 2023 to May 2024 | policy report no. 2024/08

Authors:

IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index team (Rainer Kattel, Ruth Puttick, Mariana Mazzucato, Anna Goulden, Iacopo Gronchi, Fernando Monge, Mia Tarp, Kwame Baafi, Bec Chau, Anjum Dhamija, and Manuel De Feria).

Summary:

The Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is working with Bloomberg Philanthropies to develop a new Public Sector Capabilities Index. This index will be a global measure of where city government capabilities are strong and where critical skills must be built up. We will launch the first iteration of the Public Sector Capabilities Index in May 2025.

To create the Public Sector Capabilities Index, we have divided our primary and secondary research into distinct phases. The phases are cumulative and reflective, with the intention that we will reflect upon, refine and sharpen our conceptualisations and understanding of dynamic capabilities as we engage more city governments and their wider stakeholders.

This paper synthesises the findings from our research during September 2023 to May 2024. It builds upon the scoping interviews and literature review we conducted from September to December 2023 to develop our conceptualisations of dynamic capabilities (see Kattel et al. 2024). Through in-depth qualitative interviews, and reviewing academic and policy documents, we have generated five case studies on dynamic capabilities in city governments. Our five city government case studies are: Barcelona City Council, Bogotá City Council, Freetown City Council, Seattle City Council and Seoul Metropolitan Government.  

Reference:

IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index team : Kattel, R., Puttick, R., Mazzucato, M., Goulden, A., Gronchi, I., Monge, F., Tarp, M., Baafi, K., Chau, B., Dhamija, A., and De Feria, M. (2024). Developing the Public Sector Capabilities Index: Phase I synthesis report, September 2023 to May 2024. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (2024), IIPP Policy Report No. 2024/08. Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/policy-report-2024-08.