@rainerkattel.bsky.social
Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
🎤 From Insight to Action
Join us for the launch of the new Public Sector Capabilities Index report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anacláudia Rossbach, and Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr.
🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/QWael2j
🚀 Launching our newest report on Public Sector Capabilities Index @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on Oct 3. Cities helped us co-create a tool to show how govts can learn, adapt & deliver in complexity. In person or online, register here
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✍️ Getting to “zero bureaucracy” takes a lot of bureaucracy.
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that how we orchestrate bureaucracy matters to deliver fast, fair, and trustworthy services that create public value.
🔗 Read his latest blog here: buff.ly/9MOzxFd
Strong 'planning to plan' vibes here: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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👋🏻 A warm welcome to our new MPA Cohort
We are pleased to welcome the latest IIPP MPA Cohort yesterday, with Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social and our core faculty kicking off our introduction week!
🔗 Learn more about our MPA Programme here: buff.ly/nfkcOk7
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck in old habits — grant-giving, compliance, and rigid oversight — when the world needs institutions that **learn, adapt, and lead**.
Full article 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
“Zero bureaucracy” isn’t the absence of rules — it’s the presence of good ones, embedded in routines & digital infrastructures.
Full blog 👉 medium.com/iipp-blog/how-much-bureaucracy-do-we-need-to-achieve-zero-bureaucracy-9c586274da0a
A new academic year @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
22.09.2025 19:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🪪 Why don't we have ID cards in the UK?
IIPP Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social joined @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room to discuss what a possible ID card system might look like in the UK, and if it would work.
🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/cWLppNb
✍️ Can Design Transform Governance?
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social, co-author of the recently published Public Design Evidence Review (PDER), reflects on the role of design in creating better public policies and services.
🔗 Read his new blog post here: buff.ly/2zMzPpH
🎤 From Insight to Action: Scaling the Public Sector Capabilities Index
Join us at the launch of the new IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/BlceTFU
✍️ Are ‘dynamic capabilities’ just ‘public sector innovation’ with a different name?
IIPP's Ruth Puttick, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social unpack this often-asked question in their latest blog post, exploring the close relation of both terms.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/xza1qI2
Good point by @rainerkattel.bsky.social. He would agree that
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
"Too often, we see rigidity at the top, experimentation at the grassroots, and a weak middle. Innovation agencies should be the bridge—but their structures and practices remain stuck in the past" www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno... @rainerkattel.bsky.social
02.09.2025 06:17 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck between rigid rules at the top and scattered experiments at the bottom. If they can’t become mission architects, we’ll fail on climate, digital sovereignty & even defence R&D.
More in my new Social Europe piece 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
Looking at my inbox and in particular at most of the admin tasks, I suggest we are fast moving from Kantian 'sapere aude' to 'artificialiter sapere aude', dare to use your own AI.
28.08.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 Last call! UK students have just one week left to apply for our MPA @iipp-ucl.bsky.social.
Don’t miss the chance to join a pioneering programme that equips future public leaders with the tools to shape markets, drive missions, and create public value.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
"One of the most striking things they found out in Bowling Green was that when the ideas were anonymous and stripped of political identity, the constituents found that they agreed on a lot" gizmodo.com/a-kentucky-t...
18.08.2025 11:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Apparently Putin called off his planned shopping trip. Because of the tariffs the prices were ridiculous.
16.08.2025 05:47 — 👍 82 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0For German speakers, I strongly recommend the new number of @surplusmagazin.bsky.social
It includes an interview where I answer a bit of everything, incl why I don't speak of techno-feudalism
More importantly, a lot of extremely interesting articles from a #critical #economics perspective
✍️ Are ‘dynamic capabilities’ just ‘public sector innovation’ with a different name?
IIPP's Ruth Puttick, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social unpack this often-asked question in their latest blog post, exploring the close relation of both terms.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/OyAHHM2
⏪ Catch up on our recent Islamic Public Value book launch
In May, IIPP's @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Wolfgang Drechsler & Salah Chafik launched their new book 'Islamic Public Value: Theory, Practice, and Administration' at the British Library.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/NyzJckY
🪪 Why don't we have ID cards in the UK?
IIPP Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social joined @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room to discuss what a possible ID card system might look like in the UK, and if it would work.
🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/cRTRv9S
✍️ Are ‘dynamic capabilities’ just ‘public sector innovation’ with a different name?
IIPP's Ruth Puttick, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social unpack this often-asked question in their latest blog post, exploring the close relation of both terms.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/1xKm7JI
🇪🇺 Missions and Public Procurement in Europe
The latest working paper by IIPP Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Amy Lai, Chiara Bleckenwegner, @innopirate.bsky.social, & Veiko Lember, examines how public procurement has been used for mission-oriented policy-making.
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/aczBf6u
STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
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🎤 DARPA’s High-Risk, High-Reward Legacy
IIPP PhD Graduate Dr Josh Entsminger spoke with Sarah Doyle, @jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social about his PhD journey researching DARPA, its model, and how governments can fund, structure, and sustain innovation for the public good.
Remember the days when you could let your inbox fill up so no one could send you any more emails? Nostalgic for those simple times.
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🇪🇺 Missions and Public Procurement in Europe
The latest working paper by IIPP Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Amy Lai, Chiara Bleckenwegner, @innopirate.bsky.social, & Veiko Lember, examines how public procurement has been used for mission-oriented policy-making.
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/aczBf6u
✍️ Can Design Transform Governance?
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social, co-author of the recently published Public Design Evidence Review (PDER), reflects on the role of design in creating better public policies and services.
🔗 Read his new blog post here: buff.ly/haprY2m
