Radical Efficiency
June 2010
'Radical efficiency' is about different, better and lower cost public services. It is about innovation that delivers much better public outcomes for much lower cost.
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Learning to take risks, learning to succeed
June 2010
Innovation is urgently needed for economic growth and to find solutions to pressing national and global problems.
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Buying Power?
June 2010
Is the Small Business Research Initiative for procuring R&D driving innovation in the UK?
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Culture of Innovation
June 2010
Our report tackles the question of how cultural organisations can find ways to innovate in the tightest funding environment they've ever faced.
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Rebalancing Act
June 2010
As the new government seeks to rebuild the UK's economy and lead the country into recovery, the concept of economic "balance" has come to the fore.
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Game-Changing China
June 2010
Lessons from China about Disruptive Low Carbon Innovation.
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Opportunities for innovation
May 2010
In today's economy, local authorities are being expected to do more with less. Tight financial constraints leave local authorities with a difficult balancing act between ensuring good quality public services and delivering efficiency gains.
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Sourcing knowledge for innovation
May 2010
This report provides a detailed review of patterns of knowledge sourcing, and the key factors influencing these patterns, particularly from a small business perspective.
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Knowledge Bank
May 2010
Explore NESTA's rich resource of world-class research and policy advice covering how innovation can help generate economic growth and provide better public services for less
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Investing in Social Enterprise
May 2010
Social enterprise has developed from the need to improve the provision of socially important goods and services and from the awareness that social problems cannot be solved soley by traditional not-for-profit and philanthropic approaches.
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Creating value across boundaries
May 2010
The effective use of professional or academic teams from several different disciplines can help develop new solutions to complex problems or research questions, a process that can lead to interdisciplinary innovation.
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Public services inside out
April 2010
A new vision for public services shows how co-production can work in practice, delivering better outcomes for less money.
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Measuring user innovation in the UK
April 2010
As previous research has shown users - both firms and individual consumers - play a much more active role in processes of innovation than it had been generally believed.
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The Human Factor
November 2009
How transforming healthcare to involve the public can save money and save lives.
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Open innovation
April 2010
NESTA's Corporate Connect programme recognises that big business, though its relationships with myriad suppliers customers and consumers, is vital to the UK's economic health.
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Local knowledge
March 2010
This report contains four case studies which show how innovative economic activity can radically transform an area.
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Learning about learning
October 2009
Social, technological and demographic changes mean that today’s young people will be living in a very different world. To make the most from these changes, young people will need a broad range of skills.
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Demand and Innovation
March 2010
Working paper on Demand and Innovation: how customer preferences shape the innovation process.
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Business Growth and Innovation
October 2009
The wider impact of rapidly-growing firms in UK city-regions.
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Local by Social
March 2010
NESTA and IDeA have produced this pamphlet to demonstrate how developments in social media might affect, and be used in, the work of local government.
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