Is there anyone left that thinks governments should continue as they are? That work is somehow going to slow down and we can go back to a stable environment? Piret Tõnurist outlines why governments need to adapt in this changing world.
At IGL2019 we explored agile innovation policy - what is it, why is it important, and how do we get governments to adopt it in their policymaking strategies? Marieke gives an overview of this year's conference's opening session in Berlin.
At IGL2018, we were compelled to reckon with a large and persistent gender gap in innovation - and so this year, we asked experts how we could close the gap. Sofia Bapna from the Carlson School of Management and Rembrand Koning from the Harvard Business School presented some answers based on their latest research at the IGL2019 Research Meeting in Berlin.
What happens when you compel people to innovate — do you end up with better or worse ideas? And how is crowdfunding shifting the power paradigm for women? We're launching our new magazine to begin to answer some of these questions.
We suggest three main areas of action which should be explored by those managing R&D and innovation budgets in order to increase their impact.
How might a government encourage more opportunity-led entrepreneurship and science-led innovation careers at a large scale? Igor Asanov et al tackle opportunities in STEM in a RCT funded by the IGL Grants Programme.
As part of Nesta's annual prediction series, IGL's Teo Firpo, together with Laurie Smith, predict that in 2019, innovation funding will be increasingly randomised.
Florence Engasser at Nesta examines why they are harnessing the value of games to help innovation policymakers improve the design and implementation of their policies.
If they want to have an impact, innovation mappers need to be more bee-like in their work, laboriously collecting facts and connecting them...
What effect do tools and training have on the Kenyan furniture industry? The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics launches a trial funded by IGL.
