1. Crossing Sectors to
Reinvent Local Government
November 14, 2012
Triple Helix Workshop
Building the Entrepreneurial University

2. The SPUR Model
Community Disaster Economic Good
Planning Preparedness Development Government
Housing Sustainable Regional Transportation
Development Planning
Research + Advocacy + Implementation

3. The SPUR Model
Community Disaster Economic Good
Planning Preparedness Development Government
Housing Sustainable Regional Transportation
Development Planning
Research + Advocacy + Implementation

4. Good Government
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
• Transparency
• More about capacity
• Operational
• Financial
• Services
• Human resources
• And systems
• Service providers
• Strategic partners
• Regulatory structures

5. Reaching across sectors
• Constrained resources
• Structural deficits
• Unfunded liabilities
• Unsustainable services
• Legacy systems and
processes
• Have to devise new ways
to provide services
• Service providers
• Strategic partners
• Self-service solutions
• New service models

6. What does this mean?
• Public-private partnerships – a network of partners
• Pro bono networks
• Foundation partners
• Placements and training programs
• New funding models
• Technology can help, but isn’t the answer
• Self-service solutions
• Open data
• Subject matter networks
• Community-based systems
• Experimentation
• Innovation is needed at every level, but will encounter
many forms of resistance

7. Implications for universities?
• Systems-based thinking
• Experimentation
• Cross-sector collaboration
• Encourage entrepreneurs
in public service
• Multi-disciplinary training