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We conduct our own research and commission leading academic and policy institutes.
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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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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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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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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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Demand and Innovation
March 2010
Working paper on Demand and Innovation: how customer preferences shape the innovation process.
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Meeting the challenge of 21st century education and a global economy
March 2010
Students identify some of the key challenges facing education in the 21st century and how they think education should best respond.
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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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Royal Shakespeare Company - a creative report for organisational change
March 2010
DEMOS, supported by NESTA, publish a new report on the Royal Shakespeare Company and their creative approach to organisational change.
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An evaluation of NESTA's pilot projects to develop the skills of risk taking
March 2010
This report presents the main findings from five pilot projects, supported
by NESTA to test different ways of developing an awareness of risk-taking in young people or the professionals who work with them.
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The Open Book of Social Innovation
March 2010
This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times.
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Playing the Game: Insider views on video game development
February 2010
This book is the collective gathering of informed views from seasoned video games developers.
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Mass Localism
February 2010
A way to help small communities solve big social challenges.
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Beyond Live
February 2010
NESTA has been conducting an in-depth research study on the two NT Live pilots that were broadcast last year.
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Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organisations - Interim report
December 2009
This research aims to develop an economic analysis of innovation that is applicable to a range of cultural institutions.
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The Challenge of Co-Production
December 2009
The key to reforming public services is to encourage users to design and deliver services in equal partnership with professionals.
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Everyday Innovation: How to enhance innovative working in employees and organisations
December 2009
This research focuses upon the critical role employee characteristics and behaviours play in innovative working.
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The Innovation Index
November 2009
Measuring the UK’s investment in innovation and its effects.
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Big Green Challenge finalists booklet
November 2009
The Finalists have been putting their ideas into practice throughout the course of the Big Green Challenge Year, and the Challenge team and partners have continued to provide support to the projects and to capture learning to share with others.
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The wider conditions for innovation in the UK
November 2009
How the UK compares to leading innovation nations.
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Measuring sectoral innovation capability in nine areas of the UK economy
November 2009
This report sets out a framework for measuring innovation at a firm and sector level - insights can be provided at the level of individual firms and among sectors.
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