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4. MIMI Results for the Mossel bay Local Municipality
4.1 Construct A: Enablers of innovation
This section presents results for Construct A of MIMI: Municipal Enablers for Innovation. Table 2 displays the scores for Construct A for the Mossel Bay Local Municipality in comparison to the national average. As indicated, the average score for Mossel Bay Local Municipality in Construct A was 2, which aligns with the national average of 2. Despite the average, the municipality demonstrated strength in processes for innovation and tools for managing knowledge where a score of 5 was achieved. Additionally, Mossel Bay scored 2 in several areas such as innovation linked to strat- egy, innovation linked to performance, financial resources for innovation, physical resources for innovation, human resources and idea take- up processes. These suggest the municipality shows some enabling conditions for fostering innovation, although there are areas requiring improvement, particularly in financial and physical resources, external collaboration, and political support.
Table 218. Construct A: Enablers of innovation
4.2 Construct b: Management support for innovation
This section presents results for Construct B of MIMI: Management Support for Innovation. Table 3 displays the scores for Construct B for the Mossel Bay Local Municipality in comparison to the national average. The average score for Mossel Bay was 3, which is above the national average. The municipality scored 2 in openness to new ideas, encouragement of learning, understanding of innovation processes and support for testing innovations. A score of 5 was recorded for communication by management for innovation.
Table 219. Construct b: Management support for innovation
MUNICIPAL INNOVATION MATURITY INDEX (MIMI)
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