By Albert Bravo-Biosca and Teo Firpo on Thursday, 11 July 2019.
Mission-oriented innovation policy is back on the agenda, gaining more and more traction among both innovation policymakers and practitioners. Teo Firpo explains how and why experimentation is important when delivering missions.
By James Phipps on Thursday, 11 July 2019.
Not all new policy ideas will be successful. If policymakers are to be experimental then they and wider stakeholders will have to accept the risk that new programmes or design changes will fail to work as intended. James Phipps takes on failures in his latest blog.
By James Phipps on Thursday, 13 June 2019.
By now you should have gathered that at IGL we believe innovation, entrepreneurship and business growth policy would benefit from being more experimental. It will also therefore not be a surprise that this is a common theme at IGL conferences, with sessions each year showcasing policy relevant experiments and workshops that build awareness and knowledge of experimental approaches.
By Jen Rae and Harry Armstrong on Friday, 7 June 2019.
The emergence of new technological capabilities, whether in the form of Artificial Intelligence enabled autonomous vehicles or new ways of delivering services, offer important benefits for the economy and society. But their novelty can pose a problem. How will these innovations function in the real world? How can we employ these new ideas to maximize the benefits and mitigate potential harms? What other structures, physical, organisational or social, will we need to put in place for them to work?
By Igor Asanov, Thomas Åstebro, Guido Buenstorf, Bruno Crepon, Diego d'Andria, Francisco Flores, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann, Mathis Schulte on Friday, 26 April 2019.
How might a government encourage more opportunity-led entrepreneurship and science-led innovation careers at a large scale? Igor Asanov et al tackle opportunities in STEM in a RCT funded by the IGL Grants Programme.
By Triin Edovald on Monday, 17 December 2018.
The IGL Winter Research Meeting, held on 13th December in London this year, brought together a group of researchers to discuss experimental research aimed at improving our understanding of the drivers of innovation, entrepreneurship and growth, and some potential interventions to accelerate these.
By Alfonso Gambardella, Arnaldo Camuffo, Alessandro Cordova, Chiara Spina on Wednesday, 24 January 2018.
Researchers from Bocconi University outline the first steps of their randomised controlled trial into the effects of a scientific approach on entrepreneurial experimentation, funded by the IGL Grants Programme.
By Albert Bravo-Biosca and James Phipps on Thursday, 9 November 2017.
Albert and James explore what the new EU funding for experimental innovation support means for innovation agencies and evidence.
By Giulio Quaggiotto and Shatha Alhashmi on Wednesday, 7 June 2017.
Back in 2015, the Canadian Prime Minister publicly released, for the first time, his instructions to all his ministers. Among these instructions, entitled mandate letters, one was particularly relevant to experimentation. It was addressed to the President of the Treasury Board of Canada, and it stated:
By Jesper Christiansen, Bas Leurs, Giulio Qiaggiotto on Thursday, 27 April 2017.
Recent years have seen a growing interest and increasing uptake of experimental methods in government. Around the world, we see a growing number of governments taking up experimental approaches to tackle complex issues and generate better public outcomes.