Obstacles

• Recognising, introducing and cultivating new opinion ( new ideas may, at the beginning, be less efficient than optimised alternatives)
• Overcoming barriers to change and risk aversion (eg of upsetting vested interests)
• Supportive environment required but government agencies not good at recognising and replicating good innovations
• Strategies for innovation must incorporate services and social organisations
• Poor relationships between public service commissioners and managers, third sector practitioner innovators, social investors and policy makers