Welcome to
The Innovation Track of The Bloomberg Sagol Center for City Leadership at Tel Aviv University

The municipalities' multidisciplinary innovation teams work under the guidance of a professional innovation lead to address a challenge defined by their municipalities. The methodological work process includes four stages, adapted as needed to each municipality and its unique characteristics.

At first, preliminary research is conducted, to acquire a better understanding of the challenge. This stage includes collecting existing materials from Israel and around the world: research literature, trends and case studies, items from the media, reports, policy papers etc. In addition, a field study is conducted through in-depth interviews, observations, and other research tools - to explore the viewpoints of residents and stakeholders in order to develop optimized solutions.

All materials collected in the first stage – from research literature to interviews and observations – are integrated, to identify recurring patterns and formulate findings and insights. Through this activity the work teams acquire new tools for analyzing the environment of the challenge, while gaining new perspectives on the needs of the target populations.

The team examines optional activities that can be developed into different responses to the challenge. The development process includes an ideation workshop with stakeholders and experts, invited to participate in forming the future solution. Finally, at an inclusive development workshop, all participating municipalities present their proposed solutions, soon to be implemented in the field.

The solution's implementation begins with prototyping – a series of temporary interventions within a limited population, including rigorous measurement, designed to test the potential solution. The findings are utilized to build a broader initiative on a larger scale, presented as a work plan for implementation in the municipality.