The Policy Innovation Blog will follow NESTA’s Policy Unit as it explores new ways of tackling key social and economic challenges.
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.
27.02.2012At a recent NESTA event, Matt Jones described Microsoft's X-box Kinect product as "military-grade surveillance".
16.01.2012The 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.
16.11.2011Venture 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.
16.11.2011Following 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