Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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🎤 State Capacity in the Digital Era
State capacity increasingly depends on the ability to design, finance, and govern shared digital infrastructure, but capability remains a key question.
📆 June 17 | ⏳ 10-11:30 GMT | Senate House, London
➡️ Learn more and register here: buff.ly/8cebWV7
✍️ A New Economics for the 21st Century
The World Bank still has much further to go to translate real-world evidence into better policy advice. Learn more in IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Research Fellow @laramerling.bsky.social's @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article: buff.ly/TNzn6gy
🎤 Reclaiming Finance
The panel examines how financial systems can be reoriented to serve the common good, with a focus on the relationship between sustainable finance & the real economy.
📆 June 17 | ⏳ 18:30-20:00 GMT | Senate House, London
➡️ Register here: buff.ly/E8zvmXl
@iipp-sea.bsky.social
🌤️ Talking About the Weather
IIPP Associate Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social expands on how #BigTech is setting the terms for how we understand and respond to the climate crisis through its ownership of cloud services in her new piece for @the-breakdown.bsky.social.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/LqCINxw
🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
🆕 Creating a Competitive Marketplace for Compute
Three American firms — Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet — control 85% of Canada’s public cloud market. IIPP's Professor @eaves.ca's latest report proposes a pathway to create a more competitive marketplace for compute.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/4Pw8dqR
⏮️ Catch up on our 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/sCY0kcf
🎤 Macrofinancial and systemic risks of biodiversity loss
IIPP Academics Lydia Marsden, Katie Kedward, and @jryancollins.bsky.social will be presenting their research on macrofinancial risks of biodiversity loss and transition policies at the 2026 @WorldBioForum.
🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/5UCT6Jq
⚠️ Oil and gas price spikes reinforce the urgency of mission-oriented green industrial strategy.
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article outlines how governments can both secure living standards and build economic resilience.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/uXQ1DoE
🎤 Evaluating Mission-Oriented Policies
Conventional evaluation frameworks, centred on short-term outputs & narrowly attributable impacts, struggle to capture broader systemic objectives.
📆 June 17 | ⏳ 16:30-18:00 GMT | Senate House, London
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@iipp-sea.bsky.social
