Publications

Reports

Our detailed research reports provide a rich source of expert knowledge on how innovation works best in the UK.

We conduct our own research and commission leading academic and policy institutes.

 

Reports

Image of Buying Power Buying Power?
June 2010
Is the Small Business Research Initiative for procuring R&D driving innovation in the UK?
—Read more about Buying Power?

Image of Culture of Innovation 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.
—Read more about Culture of Innovation

Image of One pence piece 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.
—Read more about Rebalancing Act

Image of Game-Changing China report cover Game-Changing China
June 2010
Lessons from China about Disruptive Low Carbon Innovation.
—Read more about Game-Changing China

Image of Opportunities for Innovation report cover 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.
—Read more about Opportunities for innovation

Image of Sourcing knowledge for innovation report cover 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.
—Read more about Sourcing knowledge for innovation

Image of NESTA's Knowledge Bank of publications 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
—Read more about Knowledge Bank

Image of Investing in Social Enterprise 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.
—Read more about Investing in Social Enterprise

Image of Creating value across boundaries 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.
—Read more about Creating value across boundaries

Image of Public services inside out 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.
—Read more about Public services inside out

Image of Measuring user innovation in the UK report cover 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.
—Read more about Measuring user innovation in the UK

Image of Open Innovation report cover 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.
—Read more about Open innovation

Image of Local knowledge report cover Local knowledge
March 2010
This report contains four case studies which show how innovative economic activity can radically transform an area.
—Read more about Local knowledge

Image of Demand and Innovation report cover Demand and Innovation
March 2010
Working paper on Demand and Innovation: how customer preferences shape the innovation process.
—Read more about Demand and Innovation

Image of Local by Social report cover 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.
—Read more about Local by Social

Image of Meeting the challenge report cover 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.
—Read more about Meeting the challenge of 21st century education and a global economy

Image of Risk taking evaluation 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.
—Read more about An evaluation of NESTA's pilot projects to develop the skills of risk taking

Image of Open book of social innovation 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.
—Read more about The Open Book of Social Innovation

Image of Royal Shakespeare Company report 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.
—Read more about Royal Shakespeare Company - a creative report for organisational change

Image of Playing the game report 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.
—Read more about Playing the Game: Insider views on video game development

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The vital 6 per cent

Vital 6 per cent report [original]How high-growth innovative businesses generate prosperity and jobs.

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Mass Localism

Mass Localism - small portrait [original]A way to help small communities solve big social challenges

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Social challenge prize guide

Social Challenge Prize Guide sidebar [original]This guide shows practical ways for unlocking people-powered innovation

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Radical Efficiency

Radical Efficiency report cover - small [original]Different, better and lower cost public services.

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