@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
🎤 IIPP PhD Candidate @taglianigio.bsky.social will chair a discussion on the role of innovation policy and state capacity in steering a green transition based on the “bioeconomy”, featuring Dr Rocio Diaz-Chavez, Dr. Francis X. Johnson, & Damon Aitken.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/VsgqvNr
✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts
IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social's recent @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article calls for investment, sustained coordination, and continuous learning to strengthen city governments.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/RBqxdH8
✍️ Reframing urban innovation around capabilities, directionality, and the politics of change
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that cities need a new investment logic to steer innovation towards societal wellbeing.
🔗 Read his recent Substack here: buff.ly/lHTsVD7
🆕 Foresight and Dynamic Capabilities
The latest IIPP policy brief proposes that foresight, when used as a policy design tool, can inform mission-oriented policies and cultivate dynamic capabilities in public sector organisations.
🔗 Read the brief here: buff.ly/g6KlFr2
🚀 We’re looking for a branding and communications partner
IIPP is inviting proposals to develop branding and communications for the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), the first global tool designed to assess dynamic capabilities in city governments.
➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/3EYVO6M
🎤 On the heels of #COP30 and the #G20Summit, join @unctad.bsky.social Secretary General @rebecagrynspan.bsky.social & IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social for a joint conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy, and finance.
📅 2 Dec | 17:30 GMT
🔗 Register: buff.ly/ebZGUOa
🔑 The Key to Unlocking Climate Progress
At #COP30, IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social highlighted the importance of finance enabling promised climate action, and building state capacity to administer and implement change.
🔗 Read her recent @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article: buff.ly/YrDgksN
🆕 A Bottom-Up Approach to Building a Climate Resilience Stack
The latest report by IIPP Prof. @eaves.ca, Beatriz Vasconcellos, @richardgevers.bsky.social, & @liamorme.bsky.social outlines a ‘climate resilience stack’ framework to help leaders respond to climate change.
🔗Learn more: buff.ly/wNOOrSm
🇺🇸 Good industrial policy needs a clear direction
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social was interviewed by @vtg2.bsky.social for @politico.com about the differences in Biden and Trump's approaches, and explains how Trump is actually weakening the economy.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/C0zVoII
❗️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/UzEW4OZ
⏮️ Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social,
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn
🆕 Power, Knowledge & Technology in a Finite World
IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently contributed to an article exploring how intellectual monopolisation is detrimental not only to the future but also to the present of our societies.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/5Wvy8OB
🆕 2025 State of Digital Public Infrastructure Report
The latest report by IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social, Research Fellow Krisstina Rao, and Professor @eaves.ca provides a unique insight into the global state of #DPI
🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/GadDwUy
🗺️ Discover the dpimap.org
Growth won’t save Starmer. It’s a metric, not a mission. What if the real mission was peace — at home (less division, stronger communities) and abroad (diplomacy, democracy, humanitarian leadership)? Peace gives politics direction. Growth doesn’t.
Read on: open.substack.com/pub/rainerka...
🇨🇴 Balancing Growth and Sustainability
IIPP MPA Student Camila Idrovo explores Colombia’s AI-driven data centre boom and the sustainability challenge of ensuring inclusive growth while safeguarding water and energy resources.
✍️ Read her blog here: buff.ly/aUyHlI0
🗺️ 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
🎤 On the heels of #COP30 and the #G20Summit, join @unctad.bsky.social Secretary General @rebecagrynspan.bsky.social & IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social for a joint conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy, and finance.
📅 2 Dec | 17:30 GMT
🔗 Register: buff.ly/0nP0QtH
Remembering Professor Richard Nelson
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social joined fellow academics in remembering Professor Richard Nelson's contributions and legacy in shaping evolutionary economics.
✍️ Read his 2017 IIPP paper, reissued earlier this year here: buff.ly/YmxvyJk
💭 New Economic Thinking for Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability
The latest SEA Reflective Space, hosted with the University of Johannesburg & Globelics, convened economists and practitioners to consider how solidarity, equality, & sustainability can move from high-level commitments to action.
🆕 State Capacity and Capabilities for a Just Green World
The latest report by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Minister @estherdweck.bsky.social outlines how to organise states to deliver climate action, drawing on work with @gestaogovbr.bsky.social.
🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/GiZYE8M
🎤 Women Economists on the Frontlines
IIPP Prof @mazzucatom.bsky.social chaired a special session at the 2025 Globelics conference, exploring how to rethink industrial strategy, finance, and public institutions to transform economies with equality at the center.
Discover SEA's work: buff.ly/WL3xA1P
🇿🇦 IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA) at the 2025 @Globelics Conference
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Policy & Research Fellow Lara Merling, and SEA Programme Coordinator Marcela Chapa Garza contributed to a special session on 'Women Economists on the Frontlines' today.
✍️ The Role of a Mission-Oriented Framework for a Progressive Economy.
IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social contributed to the 2025 @rooseveltinstitute.org essay collection, expanding on how to build innovative and sustainable economies.
🔗 Read her essay here: buff.ly/J7a69IH
📣 PhD Opportunity at UCL IIPP
IIPP is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship supervised by Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social, exploring new economic theories to support mission-oriented green industrial strategies.
🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/znd5LR0
❗️Deadline: Dec 14, 2025
Looking forward to opening our Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA) Special Session at the Globelics conference tomorrow - ‘Women Economists on the Frontlines’
24 Nov | Virtual & Tiyo Soga Auditorium | 9:30AM SAST / 7:30AM GMT
Register here: buff.ly/CChhELQ
🌍 We need a multilateralism fit for purpose, planet, and people
IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlines four principles to reorient global economic governance, rooted in this year's G20 core themes of solidarity, equality, and sustainability.
🔗 Read the paper here: buff.ly/cIJauVf
🇿🇦 South Africa's G20 presidency: A turning point for Africa
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social spoke on CNBC Africa about her work with #G20SouthAfrica as Special Advisor to President @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social ahead of the 2025 #G20Summit.
📺 Watch her interview here: buff.ly/6rRCuKU
✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions
@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.
🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/Doh9EYF
✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination.
🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/euZgJ8z
🇺🇸 Good industrial policy needs a clear direction
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social was interviewed by @vtg2.bsky.social for @politico.com about the differences in Biden and Trump's approaches, and explains how Trump is actually weakening the economy.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/C0zVoII
