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❗️Closing tomorrow - Last chance to apply!

Join the Public Sector Capabilities Index team at IIPP.
We're growing the team and are looking for:
🔹 Senior Data Product Manager
🔹 Service Designer
🔹 Stakeholder Engagement Manager

🔗 Apply here: buff.ly/fF9Xi4P
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🚀 Building the R&I Agency of the Future

IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social recently joined the Insider podcast, hosted by Ricardo Migueis, to discuss how to rebuild public-sector capacity for modern innovation systems.

🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/ZyXkNmq

❗️Closing tomorrow - Last chance to apply!

IIPP is hiring a Programme Manager to lead its Strategic Economics Alliance, working to push the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplify the voices of women economists in the Global South.

Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/vTTyrzw

🇧🇷 Carnival Economics: Dispatches from Rio, Brasília, & Salvador

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's latest Substack post reflects on her recent trip to Brazil, launching a new partnership on the Public Value of Arts & Culture with Brazil's Ministry of Culture.

✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/1TVZXlC

⏮️ Catch up on our recent PhD In Conversation event featuring @naikalema.bsky.social in conversation with academics on 'Decolonising Global Digital Transformation', drawing on her research on the World Bank Group’s Global Digital Transformation initiative

📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/qVnLbPu

❌ Does #AI development unlock wealth?

IIPP Associate Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke on 'BBC Radio 4 Today', pushing back on the narrative that #AI development will automatically boost growth and productivity.

🎧 Listen here (starts from minute 54): buff.ly/TpJBuk9

✍️ Reflections from the 2025 State of DPI Report Launch

IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social reflects on the key questions that emerged at the launch of the 2025 State of DPI Report, offering an insight into what the DPI community is grappling with right now.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/ynGNwzJ

🆕 The Authoritarian Stack

IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social's latest research project maps the "Authoritarian Stack"— a network of tech firms, funds, & political actors turning core state functions into private platforms.

🔗 Learn more about the project here: buff.ly/pCca3yp

✍️ The UK is squandering its #AI talent

IIPP Professor Mike Bracken wrote about the current state of UK #AI policy, urging policymakers to define the AI market they want, rather than being shaped by global tech forces.

🔗 Read his @financialtimes.com article here: buff.ly/KxPmnhs

❗️Join the Strategic Economics Alliance team at IIPP!

We’re hiring a Programme Manager to lead @iipp-sea.bsky.social's work on pushing the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplifying the voices of women economists in the Global South.

Apply here by March 1st ➡️ buff.ly/vTTyrzw

Great to give a guest lecture on industrial policy and workplace democracy under different models of capitalism at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social yesterday. As always, the students were the stars, with their penetrating questions and brilliant observations!

🆕 The green industrial revolution is coming

The recent @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Research Fellow Anna Hope Emerson outlines how a mission-oriented industrial strategy can generate both clean power and good jobs.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/3jFM1yd

🔄 Breaking the Housing-Finance Cycle.

IIPP Professor of Economics and Finance @jryancollins.bsky.social spoke with Tim Williams on the Grimshaw Cities Podcast about the economics of housing and the drivers of housing crises.

🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/zOlzvJm

🆕 Market-Shaping States

The latest working paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social proposes a new theory of public sector capacities and capabilities, reframing the state as capable of shaping futures.

✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/olOcFlX

✍️ Creating an index is political

IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick outlines the key political choices involved in creating the Public Sector Capabilities Index, and why this matters for its implementation by city leaders.

🔗 Read her latest blog here: buff.ly/IwTgeQK

📣 Join the Public Sector Capabilities Index team at UCL IIPP

We're growing the team and are looking for:
🔹 Senior Data Product Manager
🔹 Service Designer
🔹 Stakeholder Engagement Manager

🔗 Learn more & apply here by March 2nd: buff.ly/fF9Xi4P
@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

✍️ "We must confront the ways in which governance infrastructures replicate colonial logics."

Catch up on our recent @IIPP_UCL #RethinkingTheState Forum panel on decolonising public administration, chaired by PhD Candidate Nai Lee Kalema.

🔗 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/9fQTpmY

✍️ The politics behind fuel subsidy reform

IIPP Head of Teaching Prof. Kate Roll co-wrote an article examining Indonesia’s fuel subsidy reforms, showing how competing narratives, media discourse, and political contestation shape policy outcomes.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/tYOa5QL

💉 Lessons from the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @tomstratton.bsky.social, & Sion Williams-Elyesil investigate the role of conditionalities in industrial strategy, drawing on the development of the Vaxzevria vaccine.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/nxQDIAJ

🚀 Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words.

IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Sarah Doyle & Luca Kühn von Burgsdorff outline how to design, implement, and govern missions, and how governments can deliver transformative change.

🔗 Read the report here: buff.ly/ZT9FYmZ

5 days left to apply!
The UCL IIPP Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA) is hiring a Programme Manager to advance our work on industrial strategy, green finance, and new development theories with our partners around the world.

🎤 As today's discussion comes to an end, the panel now welcomes questions and input from our audience.

Thank you for joining us for this #IIPPInConversation event!

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🎤 What would a new 'low carbon social contract' look like?

Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social, @drdonalbrown.bsky.social, and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social discuss what a new approach and more radical strategy might look like, highlighting the need to depart from the prevailing economic consenses.

🆕 The need for a new social contract

IIPP Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social argues that the social contract - the implicit agreement among members of society and its leaders about the rights and duties of each - needs to be rewritten to match the current moment.

🇬🇧 Net Zero represents a unique opportunity to regenerate communities and build prosperity

However, far-right parties are capitalising on citizens' discontent, blaming decarbonisation and progressive agendas for worsening living conditions in the UK.

✍️ The mainstream low-carbon policy regime is failing

Today's event focuses on the need to reframe Net Zero, with IIPP Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social outlining a strategy for a new ‘low carbon social contract’.

🔗 More on IIPPs research here: buff.ly/vZ2aHcO

📍Starting in 15 minutes

Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social & @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract.

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✍️ The tragedy of the ‘measure to manage’ green financial policy paradigm.

IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social explores the failure of the 'measure risk to manage risk' paradigm, and outlines an alternative path forward through allocative green credit policies.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/pIWSLCL

❗️Happening today

Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract.

🔗 Join us online: buff.ly/3XmRyFq

❗️We need new ideas, institutions, and policies to avoid climate breakdown

IIPP works closely with governments all over the world to rethink innovation and take on a market-shaping approach to the climate crisis and the green transition.

🔗 Learn more about our work here: buff.ly/vZ2aHcO