@iipp-ucl.bsky.social
Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
⏮️ Escape from Capitalism Book Launch
Catch up on the launch of Clara E. Mattei's groundbreaking new book 'Escape from Capitalism', hosted at IIPP last month and co-organised with the @ucl-ccs.bsky.social.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/PFP3L3Z
📝 We need to reimagine the contracts that structure public-private relationships.
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @drodrik.bsky.social argue that redesigning these contracts means redesigning the direction of the economy from the ground up.
✍️ Read their working paper here: buff.ly/Ww0nA2s
✍️ Making Industrial Strategy Great Again
Industrial policy will fail unless it is organized around clear missions. IIPP Director
@mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent @foreignaffairs.com article critiques the Trump administration's approach to industrial strategy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/NEOzsvT
✍️ Theory and realism in economics
The latest paper by IIPP Associate Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social revisits the work of Richard R. Nelson, reflecting on his legacy and work on why economic models must better account for real-world processes.
🔗 Read her paper here: buff.ly/NmrU5Zu
🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration.
IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.
✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/7urTKgm
🎤 We need to speak about digital ecosystems, not markets
IIPP Head of Research Dr. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke with Oles Andriychuk about reshaping global digital ecosystems, competition, ownership, knowledge extraction, and more.
📺 Watch their discussion here: buff.ly/YveIKRw
✍️ Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers
In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/HaByGEk
❗️The transition to sustainable, climate-resilient pathways is more urgent than ever.
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Ulla Heher's paper, launched at #COP30, proposes a mission-oriented approach to country platforms to tackle this challenge.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/ZKVzuhy
💭 What’s the difference between public sector Capacity and Capability?
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Fernando Monge, and Ruth Puttick highlight the importance of the 3-letter difference, and what it means for how governments can function.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/uUHEW7p
✍️ (Re)imagining Mission Neighbourhoods
IIPP MPA alum Jack Strachan's thesis explores the emerging practices of mission-oriented neighbourhoods in shaping, adapting & transforming place, identifying four dimensions of practice.
🔗 Read the latest addition to the MPA #ThesisSeries: buff.ly/LDyBpUq
❗️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!
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🆕 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