Assessing Dynamic Capabilities in City Governments: Creating a Public Sector Capabilities Index

Report by Rainer Kattel et al: “The four-stage assessment approach for assessing city government dynamic capabilities reflects the complexity of city governments. It blends rigour with usefulness, striving to be both robust and usable, adding value to city governments and those that support their efforts. This report summarises how to assess and compare dynamic capabilities across city governments, provides an assessment of dynamic capabilities in a selected sample set of cities, and sets out future work that will explore how to create an index that can be scaled to thousands of cities and used to effectively build capabilities, positively transforming cities and creating better lives for residents…(More)”.