Read the latest blogs from the IGL network.
Discover the insights of our University-Industry Impact Accelerator, a structured training programme on the foundations of experimentation that we designed to boost university-industry collaboration.
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.
Through our work with the European Commission to promote policy experimentation and ensure citizens’ engagement in the EU five societal missions, we gathered insights from a survey of 4600 people from six EU Countries about their motivations and attitudes to citizen engagement. This blog outlines some of the key insights from the survey.
In IGL we’re firmly convinced that there are major benefits to experimentation in public policy, to find out what works and to make programmes work better before they are launched at scale. But it has never been clear how much our enthusiasm for experiments is shared among the wider public. We recently had the opportunity to look into this, and found that the public have a much better understanding of the need for experimentation than we’d realised.
Reflections from IGL's Director
2023 saw IGL kick off exciting new partnerships and projects, deepen relationships with longstanding collaborators, and break new ground both in how we work and our thematic areas of focus. This blog shares highlights of our year, and looks ahead to what’s on our radar for 2024.
Insights from our work on recovering "lost inventive potential" drawn from a report created to inform European policy in the wake of Brexit and resulting shifts to the creative and innovative centres of the European Union’s regions.
Our insights on driving strategic learning for transformative innovation born out of policy dialogues organised as a member of the Transformative Innovation Network
The strategic use of data is becoming indispensable. Recognising this, the European Innovation Council (EIC), in partnership with the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), has embarked on an ambitious benchmarking study. Read how our journey is going
Learn more about our project in partnership with the European Innovation Council to provide research and evidence-based advice on data-driven, experimental, and collaborative public sector innovation processes to support the development of the EIC’s strategic intelligence.
