First Panel OECD Innovation Capacity Cities EDF Segbedzi

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@OECD_local #ChampionMayors

Eurocities, EDF Munich, 17 October 2019

Enhancing Innovation Capacity in


City Government
Sena Segbedzi, Acting Co-ordinator OECD Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth
The innovation survey

The structure
Definition, Goals 16%
& Approaches
• Athens (Greece)
• Bilbao (Spain)
Staffing & Structure
• Braga (Portugal)
• Inverness (UK)
• Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Funding • Madrid (Spain)
• Palermo (Italy)
• Paris (France)
Data • Reykjavik (Iceland)
• Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Who responded • Sintra (Portugal)
Outcomes • Stockholm (Sweden)
• Turin (Italy)
• Utrecht (Netherlands)
Strategy & goals Staffing and structure
Cities with innovation goals Most Common Professional Skills
of Innovation Staff All cities surveyed
No Other EU cities surveyed
43% 2%
100%

YES 90%
80%
55% Yes
70%
60%
55%
50%
40%
71% in EU cities 30%
20%
10% 82% 60% 56% 56% 48% 34% 28%
Cities with an innovation 0%
Project Community
strategy Manager Engagement
Designer Data/
Computer
Communications Engineer Sociologist
Marketing
Staff Scientist

NO Yes The majority of the cities of innovation


teams have
51%
No 49%
51% have <10 dedicated 21% existed for more
innovation staff than 5 years
50% in EU cities
Approaches to Innovation

Most common policy areas: Both


40% 36%
Global
• Social inclusion, equity & welfare Specific policy areas
• Transport, mobility
34% 50%
• Economic development

Holistic / Macro level

24% 14%
EU cities
• Social inclusion, equity & welfare
• Digital governance
Other
• Environment & climate change
2% 0%
Funding

of cities have
80% dedicated funding to 71% of European cities
have specific
support innovation VS.
capacity funding available

COMMON SOURCES

MUNICIPAL NATIONAL NON-PUBLIC


BUDGET GOVERNMENT FUNDING
What’s Next…
Exploring correlations between innovation
investments and resident well being

Going deeper on data

Expanding survey to more cities


Thank You !
Sena.segbedzi@oecd.org

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