For SNGs collaboration is vital: the #COVID-19 pandemic accentuates already present need, driven by economic disruption, fiscal strain, inequality, political polarisation and climate change. Collaboration occurs in systems, partnership and policy innovation:
For SNGs seeking to maximise innovation from an international collaboration, the landscape is complicated and there has been little guidance on process or benefits. Network Effects unpicks phases where international collaboration can help:
Picking the right international collaboration opportunity to ensure maximum benefit requires understanding of the landscape, as well as choices, opportunity costs, and the future value proposition. The are barriers to avoid or overcome too:
The opportunity for international collaboration isn’t just for major cities, there are effective ways of participating for second and third tier cities as well as regions and devolved nations too:
The report recommends that SNGs:
- take a ‘whole of place’ approach to international engagement;
- concentrate on collaborations that are innovation-ready;
- pursue national-level policy partnerships to unlock capacity for internationalisation.
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