Societal challenges such as climate change or eroding public trust cannot be solved by new technology tools alone. Rather, they will take new ideas and new technologies working together to improve people’s lives.

Government still needs to play an important role in shaping and supporting innovations to these massive problems. But in today’s environment, where the private sector has emerged as a dominant source of funding for both technological and social innovation, finding these solutions requires government to work in a more integrated, agile way with the private sector.

To catalyze the innovations of tomorrow, government needs new tools today.