By Lou-Davina Stouffs, Elle Wolfhagen and Meg Doherty on Monday, 20 May 2019.
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.
By Triin Edovald on Monday, 17 December 2018.
The IGL Winter Research Meeting, held on 13th December in London this year, brought together a group of researchers to discuss experimental research aimed at improving our understanding of the drivers of innovation, entrepreneurship and growth, and some potential interventions to accelerate these.
By James Phipps and Teo Firpo on Tuesday, 23 May 2017.
What are trials? This is a primer, adopted from our upcoming experimentation toolkit, answering a few basic questions on trials.
By IGL Team on Friday, 13 January 2017.
Last December we co-hosted our winter Research Meeting at Harvard Business School, together with Professors Karim Lakhani and Rembrand Koning. Over 50 researchers were welcomed for a day packed with eight presentations of early-stage, ongoing and completed randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
By Teo Firpo on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
What prevents government agencies from making a greater use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), as well as evidence to inform their policies? Last summer we set out to answer this question, and to try and tease out which barrier is the most important. In this blog we present the results from our survey.
By Teo Firpo on Thursday, 11 August 2016.
IGL is undertaking a study on the barriers that prevent organisations from using randomised controlled trials to evaluate programmes and, more generally, using evidence to inform policies. Take part in our survey to give us your perspective.
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By Triin Edovald on Wednesday, 8 June 2016.
Triin Edovald discusses the main lessons from one of the sessions held at our 2016 IGL Global Conference
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By Triin Edovald on Monday, 4 April 2016.
As more and more governments attempt to base their policies on sound evidence, randomised controlled trials - the 'gold standard' in evaluation - are gaining a stronger role in determining which policies work. But are they really the best way to tell us which policies should be used? This blogpost explores how to improve our ability to learn and better design things that work.
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