Necessary conditions for the future, in Japan and UK

• Decentralisation of power and money
• Greater freedom for communities to shape their own solutions
• Space in public services for testing out new ideas
• Collaboration of practitioners, policy makers and social entrepreneurs
• Innovation units, to pioneer and coordinate ideas
• Expert user laboratories to test out ideas
• Development of ‘accelerators’ for particular sectors like health and education and ‘cross-cutting’ themes such as disability, ageing or care
• Scaleable innovation