How Some Cities Are Creating Permanent Pipelines of Innovation

Twenty-four-hour news coverage and citizen demand for immediate solutions consume most of the time and attention of local-government officials. Yet despite these pressures, the best city leaders still carve out the time to take the risks necessary to make their governments run better, faster and cheaper.

That said, short of catastrophe animating the public’s passions, how do cities create the urgency and political will to devote scarce resources to the largely intangible endeavor of creating a long-term innovation pipeline? What levers do cities like Boston, Louisville, New York and San Francisco deploy that result in a culture that produces a string of innovations?

By Stephen Goldsmith

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