France
Anne Hidalgo
2,200,000 (2016)
Sabine Romon
Anticipate and manage future challenges
Simplify administrative procedures for firms and residents
Engage residents and other stakeholders
Leadership from Mayor
Dedicated funding
Focus on measurement
Dedicated innovation team
Culture of innovation in city
City of Paris has its dedicated team of innovation “Pôle Innovation”, which regroups competencies in data, technology, design of services, and collaborative methods. The team provides resources and impulse of innovation projects, which accompanies the management and elected officials in their innovation approaches. The goal is to help them build public policies differently, by focusing on users (citizens or agents), in a quest for efficiency and simplification to better take into account and anticipate the needs of Parisians.
Note: The City Innovation Snapshot (PDF version) was produced in 2019 and some aggregate findings have been updated with the latest survey results below.
Along with 50% of cities surveyed, Paris has an explicit innovation strategy. Similar to more than half of cities surveyed, Paris approaches innovation capacity both from a holistic/macro level, as well as in specific policy areas.
Situated in the City Manager’s office, Paris’s dedicated team for innovation consists of 10 staff including Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Data Officer, and Chief of the Public Innovation Lab. There are also one or several persons in charge of innovation subjects in mostly all city's directorates.
Taking risks or testing new ideas
Data-driven analytics/public data management
Engaging residents in new ways
Developing new solutions based on digital technologies
Organizational change within the municipality
Human-centered design
Rethinking your city’s approach to financing partnerships
Its innovation activities also include promoting data-driven analytics; engaging residents in new ways; developing new solutions based on digital technologies; facilitating organizational change within the municipal administration; and human-centered design.
Like 81% of cities surveyed, Paris has dedicated funding to support innovation capacity.
Paris also invests in digital systems and physical infrastructure as well as conducting tests and experimentations.
Paris has developed partnerships to promote its innovation capacity with other public agencies, private firms, not-for-profit organizations, and city residents/resident associations.
To improve data use, the city has also developed data partnerships with the private sector, academia, think tanks, and private philanthropy to collect and analyze data, as well as with other cities (http://datacity.paris).