Doctor Know: A knowledge commons in health
March 2013
This report argues the health system isn’t making the most of the information revolution that has transformed other fields, and sets out the case for an information revolution in healthcare.
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Five Hours a Day
February 2013
This report makes the case for a systematic look at how we live in an ageing society, to create models of living and working fit for the future.
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Counting What Counts: What big data can do for the cultural sector
February 2013
This paper aims to help senior cultural decision-makers think differently about the potential of big data.
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Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture: Case studies from the pilot
February 2013
This publication is a compilation of brief case studies, capturing the main learning points of each pilot project from the Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture.
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Systems Innovation Discussion Paper
January 2013
This paper is intended to generate discussion around the topic of Systems Innovation, which we are defining as an interconnected set of innovations, where each influences the other, with innovation both in the parts of the system and in the ways in which they interconnect.
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A Dynamic Mapping of the UK's Creative Industries
December 2012
This paper presents an improved methodology for the classification of creative industries from the one currently used by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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Impact Investing blog series
December 2012
This blog series sets out our thinking on impact investment in the UK.
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Crowding In
December 2012
This report looks at how the UK’s businesses, charities, government, and financial system can make the most of crowd funding
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Decoding Learning report
Our Decoding Learning report finds proof of technology supporting effective learning, emerging technologies that show promise of impact, and exciting teacher practice that displays the potential for effective digital education.
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All together now: Improving cross-sector collaboration in the UK biomedical industry
March 2011
This report looks at how cross-sector collaboration can help strengthen the UK biomedical science industry.
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Working towards People Powered Health
November 2012
This paper offer insights from a range of experts – clinical, academic, policy as well as commissioners and service providers – on the relationship between co-production and workforce culture.
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Schumpeter Comes to Whitehall
July 2010
Read our hard-hitting report looking at the idea, first put forward by economist Joseph Schumpeter over 70 years ago, that cuts in public services can lead to increased innovation
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The legacy of BBC Micro
May 2012
This report explores the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, the resulting BBC Micro computer and its subsequent influence on computing culture in Britain.
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Radical Scotland
October 2010
This paper is an independent analysis of the economic and social challenges facing Scotland’s public services, and how the radical reform of services through innovation could help to meet some of these challenges.
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Measuring wider framework conditions for successful innovation
January 2011
This report is a comprehensive review of the data for measuring the wider conditions for successful innovation and considers the relative strengths and weaknesses of current data, highlighting where gaps exist.
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Compendium for the Civic Economy
May 2011
Presenting 25 case studies of the civic economy - rooted in age-old traditions of the associational economy but using new organising tactics, ways of connecting with people and approaches to collaborative investment.
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Mind over matter, Will computers enhance or limit our brains in the 21st century?
October 2011
This paper draws together some of the key ideas covered during the Hot Topics event Mind over matter: Will computers enhance or limit our brains in the 21st century?
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Barriers to growth
November 2011
This research summary paper features the views of high-growth and potential high-growth businesses
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More Than Money
November 2011
This report looks at complementary currencies and other platforms for reciprocal exchange.
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More Than Money Literature Review
November 2011
This discussion paper brings together the existing evidence of impact, outcomes and cost that exist across reciprocal exchange systems.
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