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Evaluating the enterprising
This interim report in partnership with the South East of England Development Agency aims to help further education to foster a culture of enterprise and innovation.
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Doing the business
August 2010
The UK government has increasingly expected universities to develop stronger links with business. Such links are believed to contribute to innovation and economic growth, particularly regionally.
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Small is beautiful
July 2010
In this pamphlet we profile ten innovative local projects led by frontline staff and service teams in local government.
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Amplified Leicester: Impact on social capital and cohesion
July 2010
Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester across the city's disparate and diverse communities, and to share new skills which are fast becoming essential in 21st century workplaces and communities.
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Driving Innovation in cities
July 2010
The UK's cities face an unprecedented economic challenge. This report looks at how our pilot projects in Manchester have helped set the pace for innovation in cities.
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Co-production: Right here, Right now
July 2010
The last report in our co-production series examines how people's needs are better met when they are involved in an equal and reciprocal relationship with professionals and others, working together to get things done.
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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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Investing in Innovation
July 2010
This report presents the innovative new survey we commissioned alongside the Office for National Statistics and Imperial College to address the gaps in key areas of innovation data.
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Venture Capital
July 2010
This report examines how high growth, innovative companies are disproportionately important for economic growth in the UK.
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Game-Changing China
June 2010
Lessons from China about Disruptive Low Carbon Innovation.
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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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Buying Power?
June 2010
Is the Small Business Research Initiative for procuring R&D driving innovation in the UK?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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