NESTA is interested in supporting timebanking, complementary currencies and various newer ideas around the sharing economy, seeing them as platforms for civic engagement and reciprocity in civil society.
Picture alternative economists and complementary currency advocates talking about reinventing money, issues of governance and intertrading of alternative currencies.
Industry and educators could work powerfully together to help students develop the skills they need to thrive
Is altruism essentially a by-product of monotony, and can we attach monetary value to a smile?
UK and US VC performance have been converging - but it's not all plain sailing
There’s a lot of social innovation going on. All over the world, citizens, governments, communities, NGOs are experimenting with new ways of responding to social issues.
How to help the UK’s creative industries to be the world’s most successful creative country is a pressing question.
New technologies are emerging that could change the way we work and communicate. We're exploring some of them in our upcoming Hot Topics event.
Given the current fiscal context, it’s entirely understandable that debates about the future of public services are dominated by how to make fewer financial resources go further – how to get more with less.
Evidence-based decision making and rigorous evaluation of social policy is vital to developing radical, innovative solutions to the problems facing society today.
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