Trials
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial experimentation: evidence from a randomised controlled trial
Does a scientific approach to business experimentation affect startups' performance? What is the effect of extending the use of a scientific approach on team validation?
The Impact of Intellectual Property Protection on Firm Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
To what extent does patent protection change product market outcomes?
The granting of patent rights is a central public policy tool to incentivise innovation, but the incentive that patents offer works indirectly. Rather than directly subsidising R&D costs (as in other mechanisms, such as tax credits), or attempting to make up for any differences between the public and private incentives to research, patents provide incentive through product market protection.
Corporate Nudging & Intrapreneurship
Can subtle non-monetary nudges be used to influence intrapreneurial behaviour in a large corporation?
Intrapreneurship, or bottom-up entrepreneurial activities by employees from existing firms, can be an important source of innovation and organisational growth. Management of intrapreneurship, however, is highly complex as it is typically considered discretionary behaviour and is generally not formalised in job descriptions. Innovation competitions is one way to stimulate this type of behaviour within firms
A Randomised Control Trial to Identify the Effect of Tech Incubators on Startups
Is there an effect of incubator spaces on the survival of startups and their economic performance? And if so, why?
From our blog
The Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) is delighted to announce the launch of the Unlocking Innovative Potential: Experimentation Programme. This one-year project, funded by UK Research and Innovation, supports the efforts to expand and diversify the UK R&D workforce by enabling a step change in how interventions are evaluated and optimised.
Have you ever sent out a survey to businesses and heard… nothing? You're not alone. In this blog, we've summarised what we've learned over the course of supporting dozens of trials that have involved collecting survey data from small businesses.
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.
Our Partners
The Innovation Growth Lab is an international initiative led by Nesta in partnership with several public and private organisations around the world.
Our research network
The IGL Research Network includes over 100 researchers from around the world working on randomised controlled trials related to innovation, high-growth entrepreneurship and growth.
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Casper JørgensenThe Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship -
Xavier CireraThe World Bank -
Elizabeth LyonsSchool of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego -
Michael FreseLeuphana University of Lüneburg
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Marc KönigBwcon GmbH -
Geoffrey KistruckSchulich School of Business, York University -
Martina VojtkovaNatCen Social Research -
Utz WeitzelUtrecht University
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Karen Helene Ulltveit-MoeUniversity of Oslo -
Chiara SpinaBocconi University -
David MorrisNew Economy Manchester -
Alessandro CordovaBocconi University
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Neil ThompsonMIT Sloan School of Management -
Chaning JangBusara Center for Behavioral Economics -
Kåre MobergThe Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship -
Inés Macho-StadlerUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona