By Nyangala Zolho on Monday, 12 June 2023.
This blog explores findings from a recent report IGL produced for Taftie on the ways agencies within its network are currently engaged in supporting intellectual property and insights from the discussions that took place.
By Kerstin Ganglmayer and Philipp Aiginger-Evangelisti on Thursday, 4 May 2023.
Read about the journey FFG embarked upon in the search for evidence through our two-blogs series! This is the second blog of the series where FFG shares about their learning experience.
By Kerstin Ganglmayer and Philipp Aiginger-Evangelisti on Thursday, 4 May 2023.
Read about the journey FFG embarked upon in the search for evidence through our two-blogs series! This is the first blog of the series depicting the cases considered.
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).
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.
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.
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?
By Alex Glennie and Nyangala Zolho on Monday, 9 May 2022.
Innovation agencies deal with the ‘here and now’ of supporting innovation and entrepreneurship. But they must also be prepared to respond to the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. How might they be able to learn from a future that is not yet written, and use this to inform their strategic planning?
By Stella Ishack on Monday, 14 September 2020.
Part two of our two-part blog series on the insights gained from innovation agencies designing new or improved policy schemes supporting SME innovation, and testing these using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We share what can be taken away for future innovation policy when evaluating business support programmes.
By Stella Ishack on Thursday, 3 September 2020.
In this post, we summarise some challenges that innovation agencies have faced when designing new or improved policy schemes supporting SME innovation, and testing these using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We share what does and doesn’t work for future innovation policy when evaluating business support programmes.