The Policy Innovation Blog will follow NESTA’s Policy Unit as it explores new ways of tackling key social and economic challenges.
News out today suggests that Lord Heseltine's review of industrial strategy will call for foreign takeovers of British businesses to be subject to a "public interest" test.
29.10.2012The following is a guest blog from Paul Bivand of the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion:
We have estimated the size of the employability sector at £5 billion a year. How did we reach this total? The easy answer is saying Annual Accounts. However, this begs the question of which Accounts.
Who are the neglected heroes of public service innovation? Perhaps it's not the inventors, but the adopters.
23.10.2012Today's global financial and social crises demand innovation not only in public services, but within the whole bureaucratic, administrative system of public governance. Yet innovation introduces uncertainty and unpredictability into decision-making which can sit uncomfortably with the status quo. What are new principles for decision-making that can be more conducive to innovation in the public sector?
23.10.2012What is holding back innovation in the current system and where are the gaps? The 'Open Book of Social Innovation' describes six stages of innovation that take ideas from inception to impact.
22.10.2012
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