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4. MIMI Results for the City of Cape Town Metropolitan 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 City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality in comparison to the national average. As indicated, the average score for the City of Cape Town in Construct A was 4, while the national average was 2. Notably, the municipality scored 5 in external collaboration and partnerships for innovation and community participation in innovation.
Table 44. 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 City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality in comparison to the national average. The average score for Cape Town was 4, while the national average score was 2. The municipality scored 4 in openness to new ideas, encouragement of learning, understanding of innovation processes, support for testing innovations and communication by management for innovations.
Table 45. Construct b: Enablers of Innovation
MUNICIPAL INNOVATION MATURITY INDEX (MIMI)
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