UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.

✍️ Read their new article here: buff.ly/6iHcLZ5

✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could."

Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.

🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/H83dBZv

📖 Learning to Transform Government

@IIPP_UCL's Applied Learning team reflects on their recent practice-led workshop on applied learning in government with global collaborators, practitioners, & learning partners at the 2024 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum.

✍️ Read their blog here: buff.ly/1kydLtn

✍️ 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.

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☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud

IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region.

✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/9UFbU8L

✍️ From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty

Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel chaired by Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social & featuring @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @francescabria.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Mike Braken

🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/aQlecaa

DOGE wasn't just a failure—it was the latest chapter in a 50-year project to dismantle state capacity. The question should have been obvious: efficient at what & for whom? New post on how "efficiency" is used as cover for systematic value extraction ➡️ marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/efficiency...

🤖 Interactions Between Artificial Intelligence and Digital Public Infrastructure.

IIPP's @eaves.ca & Sarosh Nagar discuss the opportunities and challenges under which #AI and #DPI can interact for mutual benefit in their recent paper for arXiv.

✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/XeBT5XD

🗺️ Introducing our new #DPI Map

The redesigned map offers enhanced insights into global Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) initiatives and ecosystems, featuring new time-stamped data and a dataset optimised for quantitative analysis.

🔗 Discover it here: dpimap.org

⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event.

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social chaired a roundtable discussion on #DigitalSovereignty in Latin America, highlighting leading examples in Chile and Uruguay.

📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/EEbqiSP

🎙️What makes an effective and enduring green industrial policy?

IIPP Prof @mazzucatom.bsky.social spoke to @chrisnelder.bsky.social from the @transitionshow.bsky.social on rethinking industrial strategies to support a sustainable energy transition.

🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/TfbGfN7

🌳 Reliance on private finance is not enough to deliver conservation goals.

IIPP's Katie Kedward & @jryancollins.bsky.social , together with Sophus zu Ermgassen & Sven Wunder warn of the dangers of relying too heavily on large-scale private finance.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/nLfQauc

⚠️ Financial Stability at Risk

Recent research by IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social & Research Fellow Lydia Marsden shows the role of finance in ecosystem degradation, urging for systemic reform to protect nature and the economy.

✍️ Read our news story here: buff.ly/swkcrXo

🌊 A mission-driven approach to water finance.

IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent paper, together with @mzaqout.bsky.social‬, explores how aligning water finance with mission-driven principles can help bridge the gap between funding & real-world impact.

✍️ Learn more: buff.ly/B6kdzTm

❌ NDCs are not meeting the urgency or scale of the climate crisis

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's new report with @climatecrisisag.bsky.social provides ten key recommendations on how to embed climate action at the centre of industrial strategy.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/fHNbBQB

🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.

✍️ Read their new article here: buff.ly/6iHcLZ5

🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest

Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.

📺 Watch here: buff.ly/8F10l1R

✍️ How Do Cities Adapt to Tackle Grand Challenges?

Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel with
@cityofsound.bsky.social in conversation with @mazzucatom.bsky.social, James Anderson, Ruth Puttick & Bridgette Morris

📷 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/W8S5LTq

🇫🇮 Learning about dynamic capabilities in Finland

IIPP's Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI) team recently travelled to Helsinki to host a workshop with Finnish public sector practitioners. Thank you to Innocities for convening this event!

🔗 Learn more about the PSCI here: buff.ly/Am1TiCT

❗️The IIPP MPA trains future leaders to design policy with creativity & rigour, building state capacity that is mission-driven.

Applications for MPA students who do not require a visa are open until August 29th!

🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/USWz8Zl

🎤 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.

🚀 Governments need long-term stability but also agility to respond to new challenges.

IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social expands on the concept of 'agile stability' and provides examples from his book 'How to Make an Entrepreneurial State'.

🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/3DBVZOF

📍Happening today - 17:30 (BST)

Join IIPP PhD Candidate Josh Entsminger in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Sarah Doyle, and @jackstilgoe.bsky.social on his thesis 'Building and Managing Public High-Risk, High-Reward Agencies: Essays on DARPA, 1958–2020'.

🔗 Register now: buff.ly/1jQ7cGM

🚀 Mission-oriented innovation policies in Europe.

In a recent chapter, IIPP Professors @rainerkattel.bsky.social and @mazzucatom.bsky.social investigate the emerging mission-oriented innovation practice in Europe, and how these policies are implemented.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/xzpwgSi

➡️ Innovation is Political

Politics fundamentally shape who gets to innovate and on what terms. IIPP's Ruth Puttick, Fernando Monge, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social explore key theories to drive change, drawing on IIPP’s motto: Innovation is political.

🔗 Read their blog here: buff.ly/l0BNq53

🌎 A Global New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation

IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social) hosted a series of powerful workshops at the 2025 IIPP Forum, discussing key challenges and opportunities for a Global New Economy movement.

➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/8gvV2ow

🇧🇷 How can Brazil achieve its agenda of economic transformation?

Launched earlier this year, the report, edited by @mazzucatom.bsky.social, focuses on the key role of procurement, state-owned enterprises & #DPI for the government’s agenda of state transformation

🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/N3pUeRq

↗️ Modern industrial policy should shape markets, not just fix their failures.

In her recent paper, IIPP Prof @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlines how a mission-oriented industrial strategy can drive productivity, direct growth, & shape markets for a just transition.

✍️Read the paper: buff.ly/7t8soYu

🇪🇺 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

💭 How can procurement support mission-driven governments?

Mission-driven governments need new tools & ways of working. IIPP Research Fellow @dwainwright.bsky.social explored how procurement can be used to enable mission delivery, drawing on IIPP's work in Camden.

✍️ Learn more here: buff.ly/CyWWSLw