Welcome to NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - a unique and independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.
What we do
We invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.
Find out more about our:
Attacking the recession - how innovation can fight the downturn
During economic downturns innovation is the single most important condition for transforming the crisis into an opportunity. Never before has innovation been so critical to the UK's economy and society.
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£150 million Innovation Fund
We welcome the Government's initiative to set up a £150 million Innovation Fund, which will leverage private capital ultimately creating a fund worth £1 billion.
NT Live is bringing together old- and new-world forms of entertainment with potentially powerful results that have a cultural and economic benefit to the UK.
Leading from the front: Real reform in public services
Phillip Blond and Jamie Bartlett from Demos talk about a major new project to decentralise and improve the UK's public services. Watch the webcast.
Encouraging collaboration in science innovation
We need to find new ways of supporting and rewarding science researchers who collaborate and share knowledge, says John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons.
