“India’s frugal innovation holds lessons for the UK”, says new Nesta report
17/7/12
India’s growing expertise in producing dramatically lower-cost products and services that outperform the alternative and can be delivered at scale offer a model of frugal innovation that the UK can learn from says a new report from Nesta, produced in partnership with Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Research Councils UK and UK-India Education and Research Initiative.
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Creative Enterprise Toolkit
Available to buy on Amazon or download in PDF format from our website, our toolkit provides guidance, activities, downloadable worksheets and case studies for creative individuals looking to turn their bright ideas into successful businesses.
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Alicia Navarro: Skimlinks
The founder and CEO of Skimlinks the growth of her company, business innovation and what the UK needs to do to improve its entrepreneurial success rate
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Appynation Games Consortium hires digital marketing manager
05/12/11 - Appynation - a ground-breaking new consortium of games developers backed by NESTA - has hired its first digital marketing manager.
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Rob Kesseler
Watch our interview with the award-winning artist and NESTA Fellow, and find out more about his work capturing stunning images of microscopic plant material
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Nesta report shows £24bn collapse in innovation investment – and a more deep-rooted crisis
16/7/12
The UK economy has experienced a ‘lost decade’ of innovation, with new evidence showing that businesses had a crisis of confidence in the 2000s, prioritising cash and concrete over investment in innovation.
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Challenging and Changing the Future of Giving
23/10/2012
16 cutting edge projects all looking to challenge and change the UK’s approach to giving are to receive financial support from the Innovation in Giving Fund, run by Nesta and funded by the Cabinet Office. The Fund sets out to enable a step-change in the giving and exchanging of time, assets, skills, resources and money.
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New 'big data' resource puts Cambridge Cluster on the map
A new 'big data' map offering insights on Cambridge's fastest growing companies has launched, aiming to make it easier to do business in the area.
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Adrian Hon
Six to Start co-founder Adrian Hon explains why he decided to crowdfund development of fitness app Zombies, Run!
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In conversation with Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs, VCs and CEOs give their predictions for the next big trends in tech
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Beyond the Banks: How credit easing could change the lending landscape for British business
25/11/11 - A new report published today argues that a new British Industry and Enterprise Bond can get credit flowing to small businesses and unlock future economic growth.
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NESTA reunion: December 2011
We reunited some of the fantastic people previously involved with NESTA initiatives and programmes and spoke to them about their work
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Innovation in Giving Fund backs 16 new projects
A service that lets people share extra portions of food and a scheme enabling charity donations through contactless payment cards are among the 16 new ideas to secure funding through the Innovation in Giving Fund.
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Rooted: A Guide to Growing Your Own Social Venture
Rooted is a new practical guide providing clear, step-by-step practical advice and resources to support social entrepreneurship in later life. Download the new guide or request a paperback copy here.
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Six Scottish arts and cultural organisations selected to pioneer digital research and development projects
4/6/12
Six pioneering Scottish projects that will harness digital technologies for the benefit of the arts and cultural sector have been selected to receive funding from the Scottish Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture run by Nesta, Creative Scotland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Creative businesses selected for Nesta's mentoring programme
25 businesses from across the creative industries have been selected to join Nesta's Creative Business Mentor Network, which is now in its third year. See the full list of businesses taking part.
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Six ‘Creative Councils’ recognised for pioneering innovations
31/5/12

Six councils have been recognised for their pioneering work in trialling radical new ways to deliver public services and have been selected to move into the second phase of the ‘Creative Councils’ programme run by Nesta and the Local Government Association.
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Nesta Crucible programme leads to new research on risks of Sat Nav
A Nesta programme which brought together researchers to share ideas and work has lead to the publication of new research on the risks surrounding satellite navigation systems.
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Jason Crusan
The Director at the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA talks about challenge prizes, the commercialisation of space exploration and when we're likely to reach Mars.
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Social action challenges set to increase giving of time, skills and resource
10/7/12
Nesta’s Centre for Challenge Prizes has today launched two ‘Giving Challenges’ to tackle isolation in old age and waste reduction. The challenges invite people to submit ideas on how to bring people together in new ways to combat these pressing environmental and social concerns.
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