about nesta: meet the lab
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An introduction to Nesta's Innovation Lab from its director Philip Colligan.TRANSCRIPT
@philipcolliganEssex sounding board 26 September 2014
• Nesta is the UK’s innovation foundation • We help people and organisations bring great ideas to life• We do this by providing investments and grants and mobilising
research, networks and skills• Independently funded through an endowment provided by the
National Lottery
Nesta Innovation Lab
•Open innovation and challenge prizes•Grant funds that support innovative ventures•Programmes working with public services
Sustaining
Disruptive
Formal Informal
Adapted from a model developed by Charles Leadbeater
Mapping public service innovation
Sustaining
Disruptive
Formal Informal
Adapted from a model developed by Charles Leadbeater
Mapping public service innovation
Sustaining
Disruptive
Formal Informal
Adapted from a model developed by Charles Leadbeater
Mapping public service innovation
Some trends (actually lots…)
• Open innovation • Design• Co-production• Social action / citizen engagement • Behavioural insights • Experimentalism • What works• Data • Digital • Entrepreneurialism • Social investment• Social enterprise / mutuals• Systemic change
Social action / citizen engagement
• Mobilising citizens as a new organising principle of public services
• Kings Volunteers: 1,500 volunteers giving more than 250,000 hours and increasing satisfaction
• 7,000 Shared Lives carers supporting over 10,000 vulnerable adults
• Diabetes UK trialling an evidence based approach to peer-to-peer support
Experimentalism
• Growing acceptance of experimental approaches to policy changes
• Behavioural Insights Team has set a new standard that is being replicated across the world: Test, Learn, Adapt
• Government innovation funds around the world increasingly linked to experimentation and evidence
Experimentalism and evidence
Level 1 You can describe
what you do and why it matters, logically,
coherently and convincingly
Level 2 You capture data
that shows positive change, but you
cannot confirm you caused this
Level 3You can demonstrate
causality using a control or
comparison group
Level 4You have one +
independent replication
evaluations confirm these conclusions
Level 5You have manuals,
systems and procedures to ensure consistent replication
© Nesta Standards of Evidence
Data
• How we create public value from data is one the biggest challenges facing governments and public services
• Contrast with the pace and scale of change in private markets
• From data sharing within and between public services to individuals having control of their data
How to organise for it…
• Local and national governments are increasingly investing in capacity and capability to innovate (and import promising ideas)
• Collaboration across sectors and local partners is critical
• Lessons from i-teams around the world are showing which models work
