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Geoff Mulgan

I'm going to share some of the interesting projects I see, ideas I stumble across and issues I encounter in my job as NESTA's CEO.

Innovating our industrial policy

Industrial policy is and always has been at heart about increasing the quantity and quality of investment in products and services for the future.

27.02.2012

The Facebook paradox

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.

24.02.2012

Innovative currencies

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.

16.02.2012

Understanding the world around us

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.

07.02.2012

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