Universities, cities and the velocity of knowledge Geoff Mulgan

Open innovation

Social innovation

Innovation in services User innovation

Design led Innovation

open source innovation

Increasing inputs to innovation

R&D tax credits, grants for R&D, public support for venture capital and loan guarantees

Increasing non-financial capabilities (eg access to skills and expertise)

Support for exploiting IP, technical support services, skilled migration and mobility schemes

Enhancing connections and complementarities

Cluster policy, support for networks, collaborative R&D programmes, support for intermediaries

Enhancing demand for innovation

Public procurement policies, pre-commercial procurement of R&D, inducement prizes

Framework conditions for innovation

Regulation, standards, entrepreneurship policy

Improving discourse and preparedness

Foresight and horizon scanning

The Innovation Policy Evidence Compendium:

20 reports, over 1000 international evaluations of what works

http://www.innovation-policy.org.uk/

Kerala

Neighbourhood

Network for

Palliative Care

Relative decrease in the cost of the innovation process

Use randomised trials to build the evidence

base on the most effective approaches to

Increase innovation

Support high-growth entrepreneurship

Accelerate business growth

T h e n e w g l o b a l l a b o r a t o r y f o r i n n o v a t i o n a n d g r o w t h p o l i c y

And on-going discussions

with several other

organisations

Partners

What is IGL?

• A new global collaboration that develops

and tests different approaches to

support innovation, entrepreneurship

and growth, bringing together

researchers and private and public

organisations

Our aims:

• Improve the evidence base on the

effectiveness of interventions

• Encourage experimentation with new

interventions

• Push forward the knowledge frontier

What we do:

• Run trials with partners

• Fund trials with IGL Grants

• Build and connect communities

• Promote wider adoption of trials

• Create useful resources

• Disseminate lessons

www.innovationgrowthlab.org

Observing the city in new ways

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1. Mechanisation resistant

2. Novel process

3. Non-repetitiveness or non-uniform function

4. Creative contribution to the value chain

5. Interpretation, not just transformation

Creativeness of occupations assessed through five criteria:

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2.5 million, growing 4x workforce as a whole, 9.7% GVA

Creative industries distinguished by their intensive use of creative talent

59% of creative talent in the wider economy

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computer

programming

activities

(SIC 6201).

Largest employer

of creative

occupations

Programmers and software development professionals

(SOC 2136) employed in computer programming

activities (SIC 6201)

Graphic designers (SOC 3421) employed

in specialised design activities (SIC 7410)

Product, clothing and related designers

(SOC 3422) employed in specialised

design activities (SIC 7410 )

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Generating ideas in new ways

Startup accelerator programmes: digital incubation at scale

To date:

• 218 programs world-wide

• 4027 companies accelerated

• 205 exits for $ 2.3 billion

• $ 5.4 billion funding

(courtesy of www.seed-db.com)

Open innovation and prizes

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Long shortlist of 100+ examples of organisations

working on DSI.

Case studied 39 of these

Open Hardware

Smart

Citizen Kit Smart Citizen Kit enables

the user to measure

environmental data and a

Wi-Fi antenna that enables

the data to be shared.

Installed at scale in

Barcelona, Amsterdam and

Manchester

Citizen engagement

Participatory

Budgeting Participatory budgeting has

been successfully in

Estonia and Iceland, as well

as in Paris, and around the

world in Brazil and the US

Other projects, such as

Your Priorities in Reykjavik

offer open source platform

integrating large scale

deliberation & democratic

decision-making with

online participatory

budgeting

Open democracy

Decision making Involving communities in problem solving…

Smart arts

Native: the magazine of the Digital R&D Fund https://artsdigitalrnd.org.uk

Talking Statues

Intelligent city government

Experiment fast, small

Tap human experience

Learn, measure, use data

Scale what works

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Schools that encourage agency

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CREATE Skills Framework

Cities that are truly smart

Geoff.Mulgan@nesta.org.uk