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id: "govlab:project/project-icma-innovation-skills-survey"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "ICMA Innovation Skills Survey"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-icma-innovation-skills-survey"
authors: ["Beth Simone Noveck","Sam DeJohn","Anirudh Dinesh"]
summary: "Beth Simone Noveck is leading a research project with an aim to measure current knowledge and use of innovative skills by local government leaders in the United States."
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# ICMA Innovation Skills Survey

Beth Simone Noveck is leading a research project with an aim to measure current knowledge and use of innovative skills by local government leaders in the United States.

Project website: [https://www.publicentrepreneur.org/skills](https://www.publicentrepreneur.org/skills)

## Background

GovLab’s work on measuring innovative and entrepreneurial skills within the public sector starts from the hypothesis that government can do a better job of eradicating poverty and inequality, slowing economic fluctuations and climate change, and improving security, literacy and wellness if public officials know how and when to leverage new creative, technological and data-informed tools and methods (“innovative skills”) to more effectively and efficiently define problems and develop implementable solutions.

## Description

GovLab Director Beth Simone Noveck was recently announced as one of four inaugural International City/County Management Association Local Government Research Fellows. Her research project, titled “Promoting Local Leaders’ Innovation, Learning, and Effective Problem-Solving”, focuses on identifying and analyzing the skill gaps of local leaders’ use of innovative methods to solve problems using new technology.

## Location

- United States

## Partners

- International City/County Management Association

## Team

- [Beth Simone Noveck](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#beth-simone-noveck)
- [Sam DeJohn](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#sam-dejohn)
- [Anirudh Dinesh](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#anirudh-dinesh)