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.

Vital 6 per cent

Our research has shown that growth is driven by a small minority of amibitous, innovative companies - exactly the type that have clustered in Silicon Roundabout.

03.11.2010

Just how crazy are entrepreneurs?

The New York Times published an article recently about an entrepreneur, Seth Priebatsch, and described what it called his 'hypomanic' attributes: an elevated mood, obsession with one idea, little need for sleep, massive self-confidence.

30.09.2010

Financing Mass Localism

It seems that we are finally beginning to grasp the true value of localism: not as an R&D lab for the centre, but as a powerful force in its own right. But this new vision of localism also calls for new types of social finance.

20.08.2010

The revolution starts here

It's taken a while, but at last a new type of high street bank has emerged from the wreckage of the credit crunch.

29.07.2010

Venture Capital

Nothing ventured...

08.07.2010

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