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IGL 2019

Global Conference

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IGL2019 brought together nearly 200 senior policymakers, practitioners and researchers from over 25 countries to explore future innovation and entrepreneurship policies.

Nesta’s Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), in partnership with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the World Bank Group, the Max Planck Institute and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, held its annual global conference in Berlin, Germany from 21-23 May 2019.

Programme Highlights

21 May 2019

IGL Research Meeting

  • A forum for researchers to discuss design-stage, ongoing and completed academic research that uses experimental methods in innovation, entrepreneurship and growth.
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22 May 2019

IGL Global Conference

  • Inspiring keynotes about state-of-the-art policies and programmes.
  • Focused and interactive sessions showcasing the latest evidence.
  • Discussions on the role experimentation can play in this policy field.

23 May 2019

IGL Policy and Practice Learning Lab

  • Brings together policymakers and practioners to discuss the latest developments in experimentation.
  • Hands-on capacity-building workshops.
  • Learn first-hand from the experiences of other organisations from around the world.
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Speakers

Christian Luft

State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)

Rannia Leontaridi OBE

Director, Business Growth & Office for Artificial Intelligence, UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (UK)

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive, Nesta, (UK)

Jenn Gustetic

Programme Executive, Small Business Innovation Research, NASA (US

Christian Bason

CEO, Danish Design Centre (Denmark)

Erica Fuchs

Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (US)

Najy Benhassine

Practice Director, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation, The World Bank Group (US)

Frédérique Bone

Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (UK)

Bledi Taska

Chief Economist, Burning Glass Technologies (US)

Susan Amat

Executive Director, GEN Accelerate, VP for Education, Global Entrepreneurship Network (US)

Hazjier Pourkhalkhal

Global Director of Strategy and Value, Optimizely (Netherlands)

Jan Kinne

Researcher, ZEW (Germany)

Carl Creswell

Director, Better Regulation Executive, UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (UK)

Daniel Hain

Assistant Professor, Aalborg University (Denmark)

Piret Tõnurist

Project Manager, Lead in Systems Thinking and Anticipatory Governance, OPSI, OECD (France)

Chloé Le Coq

Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)

Ana Goicoechea

Senior Economist, the World Bank Group (US)

Caio Piza

Economist, Development Impact Evaluation unit, Development Research Group, World Bank (US)

Chantale Tippett

Principal Researcher (Innovation Systems), Innovation Mapping, Nesta (UK)

Jack Orlik

Senior Researcher, Digital Frontrunners, Nesta (UK)

Henry Sauermann

Associate Professor of Strategy, POK Pühringer PS Chair in Entrepreneurship, ESMT Berlin (Germany)

Highlights from IGL2019

IGL highlights 2019 from Nesta UK on Vimeo.

Venue

Event photos from IGL2019

What people are saying


“Thanks for the conference last week. It was very informative and generated some ideas for me that I will pursue with colleagues. I intend to keep myself informed of the work of IGL and its developments and will continue to look for opportunities that may lead to us having a more substantial involvement.”

“This was a great conference filled with opportunities to learn about current research and practice while meeting some wonderful people doing really interesting work. I look forward to the next conference.”

“The venue was fantastic, I learned a lot and met very interesting people. Thank you for putting this together!”

“Lots of great and diverse research; felt like a kid in a candy store!”

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