Urban Innovation

It’s not just lunch, and it’s not just copyediting: My friends and colleagues at the Brookings Institution and Living Cities are changing their organizational norms...

Thanks to everyone who responded to our survey about how city governments can increase the number of “smart cities” or “civic tech” or “urban tech” procurements awarded to companies led by women and people of color...

The Center for Economic Inclusion’s recently released Indicators of an Inclusive Regional Economy measures how the Minneapolis-St.Paul region’s economy...

Mid-May we’re in Detroit for a workshop with the Detroit Innovation Fellows.  If you’re in Detroit May 15, stop by the Urban Consulate for a parlor talk...

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered welcoming remarks at “The Future of Cities: Connecting Innovation, Equity, and

Next month, we’re hosting an event on mission-driven innovation in cities with The Centre for Public Impact...

In the policy world, people talk a lot about data-driven decisions, and data-driven policymaking.  We hear less about data-driven relationships.  But the experience of two mayors, G.T. Bynum of Tulsa and Catherine Pugh of Baltimore, suggest that data can connect and unite people from across the country and across the political spectrum and across city departments.

The Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation is ramping up our research on how cities are (or are not) using procurement to increase the pipeline...

Welcome to one of our new year’s resolutions!  Inspired by our friends at Venture Cafe Miami and CoProcure, whose newsletters delight us and make us think, we’ve committed to a once-a-month newsletter...