State Government Innovation Lab

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Minnesota Design Center affiliate, Emily Stover, has completed the first phase of a project with her colleague, Virginia Hamilton, a public-sector innovator in Berkeley, CA, to establish an innovation lab at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. They have been training DEED staff on how to use design thinking methods to work more collaboratively and creatively in addressing the workforce and economic development needs of the state. A second phase of the work is now underway.