Mission Discovery
www.nesta.org.uk/discovery/
www.nesta.org.uk/discovery/
Using intelligence about the future to change practice today.
Mission Discovery identifies and investigates emerging trends, ideas, technologies and partnerships that could unlock new paths to impact. We uncover what's possible, challenge assumptions, and explore ambitious, long-term opportunities that others might overlook.
Across our three missions, we are committed to ambitious goals. Mission Discovery helps to ensure that we remain open-minded about the best ways of achieving those goals, searching out alternative approaches and challenging our own assumptions when necessary. The work furthers four objectives:
We are interdisciplinary, uniting futures methods, data science, qualitative research, innovation programmes and more.
We strive to be at the cutting edge of innovation, constantly exploring, developing and applying new methods and techniques.
We take a long-term view, looking beyond immediate pressures to explore the social, economic and technological drivers which will shape our lives – and missions – in the decades to come.
We are led by social impact. While some innovations we explore are at a very early stage, the idea or technology must have real potential to generate public benefit – not just profit.
