Join us on 18 Sep for our UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose event on "Delivering Purpose-Driven Government in the UK: A Conversation about Mission Boards, Public Procurement and Wealth Funds". We will explore how to translate mission-oriented government into effective action. Hybrid | 17:30-19:00 BST |

“The thing I will be nervous about PFI is if you just use it to get things off balance sheet... And that's crazy right? Because the one thing governments can do better than the private sector, unambiguously, is borrowing money.” Well said Gus O'Donnell inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Can The Labour Party walk the talk of mission-driven government? Georgia Gould and I will discuss translating mission statements into mission delivery at the Labour Party Conference #LPC24, in partnership with UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose & IPPR & moderated by Harry Quilter-Pinner. 22 Sep | 17:45-19:00 BST |

Many of the tools & methods we use for innovation are designed for "developmental" innovation; incremental improvement to existing products & services. The gap between where we are now & where we need to be is so big that we need much more "radical" innovation. This kind of

Come and join for this! Be lovely to see you!

Honoured to be speaking at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Heads of Mission Conference today alongside Catherine Little, COO at Cabinet Office. I'll discuss what it means to implement mission-oriented industrial strategy in the UK, drawing on global lessons. I also look forward to engaging with

"Real-world data show that there’s more nuance to encouraging innovation than simply throwing money at it. Giant enterprises came to dominate vast swaths of the American economy, crowding out more innovative smaller businesses" imf.org/en/Publication…

Agree with this. Similarly, an AI system is not “learning”, it’s copying and optimizing.

IIPP's recent working paper by Mariana Mazzucato, Eduardo Spanó and Sarah Doyle explores how strategic procurement can serve as a powerful instrument to advance Brazil's ambitious economic transformation. Read here 🔗 ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

From mission boards & wealth funds to procurement reform, join me for a discussion on operationalising missions in the UK civil service alongside: ➡️ Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education ➡️ nick kimber, Director of Strategy, Design & Insight, Camden Council ➡️

Tories left a hole. It will only get bigger without a reversal in the logic limiting public investment. Low investment, low growth. I signed a letter Financial Times⁩ with Jim O’Neil ⁦Gus O'Donnell⁩ ⁦⁦Jonathan Portes⁩ Susan Newman simon wren-lewis Mohamed A. El-Erian ft.com/content/a8fcf2…

A huge thanks to everyone that came to our UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose panel on operationalising missions in UK government and to our amazing panel nick kimber, @ChrisStarkUK, Susan Acland-Hood, and our chair Catherine Day. We delved into the practical realities of implementing mission-oriented

That’s not really the question is it? Rather how will and when will the city’s growth around life sciences start to directly benefit the health and happiness of the people of Cambridge?