Read the latest blogs from the IGL network.
It’s the end of the year again (and yes, as usual it has gone fast!). At IGL we’ve been busy developing new partnerships, launching new projects, and growing our team. We’ve continued to deliver on the mission that we set out, supporting governments to become more experimental and data-driven, and helping address some of the key policy challenges that policymakers in this field face.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) drive economic growth, innovation, and job creation worldwide. A strong Intellectual Property (IP) strategy can play a vital role in unlocking their full potential, helping them protect innovations, attract investment, and explore new market opportunities. By effectively managing IP, SMEs can strengthen product development, secure funding, and enhance their competitiveness. For these reasons, incorporating IP strategically is essential to foster innovation, build market presence, and sustain growth.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of economic growth, driving innovation, job creation, and employment in countries across the world. Business development support (BDS) programmes are an essential tool for governments to foster a vibrant SME ecosystem offering resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to help these enterprises innovate, scale, and compete. But the question - one that is core to our work - remains: How can governments ensure their support programs truly make a difference?
New research provides the first experimental evidence distinguishing between two fundamental approaches to entrepreneurial training: developing managerial capital versus entrepreneurial capital.
How we helped the EIC unlock new insights through synthetic data collaboration
IGL has launched a new Data Science and Technology Unit. Find out what it will do for a vision of data powered policy and organisations.
Discover what has been happening since the launch of our Unlocking Innovative Potential: Experimentation Programme
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.
