Innovation for a New Old Age
5 October 2010 - This event argued that the traditional model of a working life needs to broken down and rebuilt to reflect the changes and challenges of our modern society
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Citizens' University
6 October 2010 - The Citizens’ University is a new initiative (developed by the Young Foundation and NESTA) to provide vital skills that benefit the community.
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Serious Games
12 October 2010 - The first event in our Hot Topics series explored how games have the capacity to change the world.
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Creative Mass: Growing Creative Clusters
29/11/10
This event explored the findings of our new report 'Creative clusters and innovation' which maps for the first time creative clusters across the UK.
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Silicon Valley comes to NESTA: UK Entrepreneurs Forum
18/11/10
Silicon Valley's top stars joined David Willetts MP to explore how the UK can emulate the success of the US model.
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Silicon Valley comes to Parliament: the impact of digital on democracy
17/11/10
A panel of leading technologists and business leaders from Silicon Valley will provoke us with their thoughts on the issues for Parliament, government and democracy created by digital access and innovation.
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The power and possibilities of big data
17/11/10
We now have access to very large data sets from consumers and companies, and access to technology that makes it easier than ever to capture and store this data. This event explored what you can do with this data, and the technical and social challenges involved.
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All together now: Improving cross-sector collaboration in the UK biomedical industry
15/3/11
This event saw the launch of our report on the current issues facing this important UK industry.
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Organising for Innovation
28/10/10
Ian Davis, Managing Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, gave a powerful keynote speech on the global challenges facing the UK economy - download the full transcript here
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Neighbourhood Challenge Launch
26 October 2010 - NESTA has launched the Neighbourhood Challenge, a major programme that will demonstrate how to galvanize communities to respond to local priorities.
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SNP conference: Growing Creative Industries
15 October 2010 - This event explored how important creative businesses are to the future economic success of Scotland, how to ensure Scotland remains ahead encouraging these types of businesses, and the effect they can have on improving more traditional sectors of the economy.
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SNP conference: Reforming Public Services
15 October 2010 - NESTA and Reform Scotland hosted a debate to discuss how public services in Scotland could be reformed in light of the current state of the UK's finances.
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Scottish Liberal Democrats conference: Reforming public services
9 October 2010 - As cuts to Scotland's public services loom, there is a real opportunity to seize the initiative and argue for innovative ways in which better public services can be delivered for less.
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Liberal Democrats Party Conference: Britain: Creative Highway
On 21.09.10 we hosted 'Britain: Creative Highway' which explored how innovative approaches using digital content can completely transform more traditional art forms, and how thinking such as this could be applied across the creative industries to promote economic growth.
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India-UK Innovation Forum
9 September 2010 - The Indian Institutes of Technologies - London Chapter (IITLC), in association with the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts (NESTA) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) held the India-UK Innovation Forum at Nesta on 9th September.
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Co-production practitioners network
8 September 2010 - The fourth Co-production Practitioners Network event brought members together to shape the future of the network.
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Small is Beautiful - Innovation in Local Government
28 July 2010 - NESTA hosted an event to launch its latest discussion paper on innovation in public services - this time on innovations led by frontline workers from local government.
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Driving Innovation in Cities
22 July 2010 - NESTA hosted an event with Manchester City Council and the North West Development Agency about building local innovation systems for economic growth based on the practical experience of the Manchester Innovation Investment Fund partnership.
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Right Here, Right Now: Taking co-production into the mainstream
20/07/10
Our co-production event explored how working together can best serve people's needs. Check out the pictures from the event and read the report.
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Social media - a force for good?
Stephen Fry, Biz Stone and Reid Hoffman discussed the phenomenon of social media and its future impact.
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