Yesterday we launched the new Centre for Challenge Prizes, with the Minister David Willetts, Jason Crusan from NASA and Cristin Dorgelo from the White House. This is an exciting and ambitious initiative which we hope will inject some creative energy into problem solving.
There is huge interest around the world in new tools for speeding up the generation and development of ideas. Many of them are in use in and around Nesta, including crowdsourcing, design methods and collaboration platforms of all kinds.
Nesta hosted a great event last month on Collaborative Consumption, kicked off by the marvellous Rachel Botsman.
I recently wrote a piece on the use of design methods in public services. Here it is ...
Data from OECD countries shows a roughly inverse correlation between spending on health and mortality and a roughly inverse correlation between growth in spending on health and improvements in mortality (the correlations hold even if the US is excluded).
Industrial policy is and always has been at heart about increasing the quantity and quality of investment in products and services for the future.
Over the last few years I've often asked friends why it is that the users of Facebook and Google don't band together to demand a share of the capital value of the companies.
The Innovation in Giving Fund is backing a series of projects using technological platforms to make it easier to give time and money. Quite a few are supporting new kinds of exchange, including time banks and complementary currencies.
Are we doomed to live in a world we can't understand? Before the modern era most people took it for granted that they were surrounded by the mysterious and capricious forces of fate and destiny. Then the enlightenment promised that we could understand our world, and for a time even things like electric lights and telephones were roughly within the cognitive grasp of the majority.
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