Governments and cities across the world are facing unprecedented pressure to do radically more with radically less. Fiscal austerity, social inequality, and changing demographics are just some of the forces putting extraordinary pressures on the public sector to transform itself. The “more for less” solutions that are being sought won’t happen by improving existing solutions, but by reimagining them. This imperative for strategic improvement, has created increasing demand for innovation skills in the public sector. A call for innovation not just to deliver better services, but more fundamentally to redesign the form of government itself. A smarter government will deliver smarter solutions, so goes the thinking. But how and where will this smarter government emerge?