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
If we need to evaluate a programme for which no baseline data is available, can we fall back on asking survey respondents to recall their situation from a notional baseline? Rob Fuller, IGL's Evaluation Manager, discusses recent work suggesting that this approach may not just be inaccurate but actively misleading.
Why Join our Accelerator Programme?
The Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) is looking for experimentation partners to pilot and test interve
Our Partners
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 85 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 -
Diether BeuermannInter-American Development Bank -
Chiara SpinaBocconi University -
Ferran GionesUniversity of Stuttgart
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Xavier CireraThe World Bank -
Marti MestieriNorthwestern University -
Rodrigo CanalesYale University -
Adriana CamachoUniversidad de los Andes
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Jeff PollackNorth Carolina State University -
Adriana MataCAF Development Bank -
Geoffrey KistruckSchulich School of Business, York University -
Christopher TucciÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Heidi WilliamsStanford University -
Amisha MillerBoston University -
Margherita CalderoneInnovations for Poverty Action -
Rachel SteinacherInnovations for Poverty Action