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.

How do we know what works?

Earlier this month I participated in a fascinating panel discussion at the Institute for Government (IfG) on the topic of using experiments to inform policy.

27.02.2012

High tech is human

At a recent NESTA event, Matt Jones described Microsoft's X-box Kinect product as "military-grade surveillance".

16.01.2012

Measuring innovation

The Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators is an interesting list of patenting activity by big companies. But it would be crazy to see it as an indicator of how innovative the UK is.

16.11.2011

Venturing beyond venture

Venture capital has much to be proud of. In the past fifty years, it has helped build a host of great companies, from Intel and Genentech to Facebook and Google.

16.11.2011

Increasing evidence demand

Following last week's announcement of the Alliance for Useful Evidence, Professor Jonathan Shepherd writes a guest blog on how increasing the demand for rigorous evidence will involve capitalising on the instinct of all decision makers.

04.11.2011

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