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.

Forget High Speed 2: what Britain needs is high-speed broadband

Today the NAO found that the economic benefits of HS2, the beleaguered high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham, aren't all they're cracked up to be.

16.05.2013

Self-driving cars and the Experimental State

There was a fun piece by Allister Heath in yesterday's Telegraph arguing that driverless cars could generate big economic growth.

02.05.2013

Five interesting recommendations to get Britain working

There are just short of one million more unemployed people than there were at the beginning of 2008 – so what do the thinking heads recommend that we do about it?

17.04.2013

Healing the scars: Recommendations and realities of youth unemployment

One of the areas I have researched as an intern at Nesta, is policy recommendations aimed at reducing youth unemployment. This blog explores a few of the more interesting recommendations in light of my own recent experience.

11.04.2013

Nesta pledges: no more all male panels

The percentage of women on boards of the UK's top FTSE 100 companies has fallen this year for the first time since records began.

04.04.2013

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