Social Challenge Prize Guide
December 2010
This guide shows you how to use social prize challenges to promote people-powered innovation
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Radical Efficiency - Practical Guide
November 2010
Radical efficiency is all about different, better and lower cost public services. It is about innovation that delivers much better public outcomes for much lower cost. This booklet offers practical tips to service leaders on how to start developing different, better and lower cost services.
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Chips with Everything
November 2010
This report examines the semiconductor industry in the UK to identify how this cluster has grown over the past 30 years
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Growth Dynamics
November 2010
This report explores business growth and contraction in Europe and the US
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Whose story is it anyway?
November 2010
Our public services face unprecedented challenges, made more urgent by the impact of the current economic crisis. Traditional approaches to public service reform are unlikely to provide the answers we need.
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Creative clusters and innovation report
November 2010
This report is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the UK’s creative clusters, showing where they are, which sectors form them, and what their role is in the systems of innovation where they are embedded.
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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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The Innovation Game
October 2010
This report recommends modification to the R&D Tax Credit that would remove unintended obstacles that make it harder for UK video games companies to benefit from the scheme.
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Knowledge Bank
September 2010 - Second Edition
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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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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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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Evaluating the enterprising
July 2010
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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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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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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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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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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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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Venture Capital: Now and After the Dotcom Crash
July 2010
This report examines how high growth, innovative companies are disproportionately important for economic growth 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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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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