Policy Innovation Blog

The Policy Innovation Blog will follow NESTA’s Policy Unit as it explores new ways of tackling key social and economic challenges.

Plan I at Budget 2013

How to use the Government’s purchasing power to boost Britain’s most innovative businesses

15.03.2013

Announcing the What Works Centres

Today Nesta hosted a Ministerial announcement of the What Works Centres. These new centres will help improve the evidence used in decision making across a number of key policy areas.

04.03.2013

In praise of speculators and bubbles

Yesterday I had the pleasure of responding to a talk by Bill Janeway at the IPPR. Janeway, remarkably, has combined a career as a legendary venture capitalist with a sideline as an economist of innovation*.

01.03.2013

The LSE Growth Commission: a slap in the chops for Innovation Studies?

After months of evidence gathering and weeks of cogitation, the London School of Economics released the report of its Growth Commission yesterday. This is as close as you can get to the great and the good of British economics speaking ex cathedra - the author list is a role call of distinguished experts on economic growth, both academic and non-academic.

01.02.2013

Announcing a new call for forward-thinking research on social innovation

Today we've published a call for proposals for a major research and policy conference on social innovation, to be held in the UK in November 2013.

31.01.2013

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