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4. MIMI Results for the City of Tshwane 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 Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in comparison to the national average. As indicated, the average score for the City of Tshwane in Construct A was 3, while the national average was 2. The municipality demonstrated a moderate score of 3 in several areas. Additionally, the City of Tshwane scored 3 in areas such as innovation linked to performance, processes for innovation, accountability and transparency to support innovation, and inclusive decision-making for innovation. These suggest the municipality shows some enabling conditions for fostering innovation, but innovation is applied but not ongoing.
Table 62. 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 Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in comparison to the national average. The average score for the City of Tshwane was 3, higher than the national average score, which was 2. The municipality scored 3 in openness to new ideas, understanding of innovation processes, support for testing innovations, and 2 for communication by management for innovation. A score of 3 was recorded for encouragement of learning.
Table 63. Construct b: Enablers of Innovation
MUNICIPAL INNOVATION MATURITY INDEX (MIMI)
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