innovation

The governance system of Latin American innovation agencies

By Hugo Cuello on Wednesday, 25 January 2023.

Innovation agencies are gradually gaining prominence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The issue of the capabilities of these innovation agencies in the region is of great importance and has been notoriously under-researched. Our latest research highlights certain factors that influence the modus operandi of the innovation agencies that form the Latin American Network of Innovation Agencies (RELAI).

Mapping the road ahead for innovation agencies

By Alex Glennie on Wednesday, 25 January 2023.

At IGL we have long been interested in the question of what innovation agencies do, and how they can successfully drive innovation, entrepreneurship and productivity within their societies and economies. Over the past few years, we have explored this topic in depth, building on earlier Nesta research that looked at the different roles and approaches taken by innovation agencies around the world.

The future roles of European innovation agencies must be led by the needs of innovators

By Nyangala Zolho on Wednesday, 25 January 2023.

Our latest research looks at the changing roles of innovation agencies in Europe. One key take away is that to keep up with the rate of change, be it technological or societal, their identities in the future must be led by the needs of the innovators they look to support.

Building a community of experimental innovation agencies: insights from IGL’s work with TAFTIE

By Alex Glennie on Thursday, 22 December 2022.

Innovation agencies are responsible for catalysing the development of innovations designed to address unmet societal and economic needs. They fund and support entrepreneurs, companies and other actors to develop, test and scale new products, services and ideas. But how do they ensure that they are continuously learning and innovating themselves?

Running an RCT with SMEs: Secrets of success

By Elena Novelli on Tuesday, 14 June 2022.

In the last few years, Elena Novelli, Alfonso Gambardella and Arnaldo Camuffo at Bocconi University (and colleagues from other institutions around the world), have been running a series of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to understand the impact on entrepreneurial performance of teaching entrepreneurs to operate like scientists when making decisions.

Four years of the UK’s Business Basics Programme – what have we learned

By James Phipps & Rob Fuller on Tuesday, 14 June 2022.

The question of how to raise productivity among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has long presented a challenge to policymakers around the world. In 2018, the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) worked with Innovate UK and IGL to launch an innovative approach to this problem, creating a fund to experiment with interventions to boost productivity among SMEs.

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