UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

🆕 Implementing Mission Barbados

Launched in December 2025, the latest IIPP Policy Report by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlines a roadmap for implementing Barbados' six missions for state transformation.

✍️ Read the report here: buff.ly/qTdQ7MF

🆕 Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed

Join us for the launch of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com's new book: 'Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed', featuring the authors in conversation with IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & PhD Candidate Iacopo Gronchi.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dlw2Ddw

🆕 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/lLhM9k6

✍️ How to Measure Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social's latest blog identifies three core functions and highlights six key attributes to consider when measuring Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI).

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/Ag0wIS7

💸 UK’s multibillion AI push may rest on “phantom investments”, warns IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social in a new @theguardian.com investigation. #BigTech can inflate data centre jobs and economic impact to please governments eager to show growth.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/gfyQHBO

🤖 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 article here: buff.ly/iP4cDPs

💪 On #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrated the women economists shaping more inclusive and sustainable economies.

SEA is proud to bring together women economists and policymakers to connect new economic thinking with real-world change.

🔗 Learn more about SEA's mission here: buff.ly/XXjI7kC

📣 Discover the MPA in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value

Join an online taster lecture introducing IIPP’s mission‑oriented approach to public policy, innovation, and institutional change, followed by a Q&A session.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/PsBo0gN
@thebartlettucl.bsky.social

🇩🇰 Denmark as an innovation nation

IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social recently spoke at the launch of the 'Denmark as a Science Nation' report, outlining key next steps for developing and strengthening innovation in Denmark.

📺 Watch more here: buff.ly/ePL1pjq

📣 Calling all city leaders!

The Public Sector Capabilities Index is now recruiting cities to participate. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's latest blog outlines why cities should join the Index & what they can gain from participating.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/WObLAR3
@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

✍️ 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 legacy of the Council on Urban Initiatives

The final report by the Council, co-chaired by IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social, highlights its key contributions to tackling urban issues and transforming cities to be fairer, healthier, and greener.

✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/eno0Fa7

🆕 Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed

Join us for the launch of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com's new book: 'Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed', featuring the authors in conversation with IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & PhD Candidate Iacopo Gronchi.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dlw2Ddw

🆕 Reimagining the Economics of Culture

Standard metrics for assessing economic output have undervalued the returns generated by culture and the arts. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social argues for a new economics of culture in her new @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article: buff.ly/Vo0wIP5

📣 Discover the MPA in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value

Join an online taster lecture introducing IIPP’s mission‑oriented approach to public policy, innovation, and institutional change, followed by a Q&A session.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/PsBo0gN
@thebartlettucl.bsky.social

✍️ "The key to getting Britain investing again is through an active, entrepreneurial state that sets clearly defined missions."

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social reflected on the UK Chancellor's recent Spring Statement in @theguardian.com.

🔗 Read more here: t.co/CqErKSnUi9

⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract.

📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/fsIX94J

🥕 Carrots with(out) sticks

@IIPP_UCL's Katie Kedward and
@jryancollins.bsky.social, together with @danielagabor.bsky.social, explored the role of central bank interventions in credit and financial markets in support of decarbonization.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/49Pj71N

✍️ How can city administrations innovate to advance green transitions while strengthening democracy?

The latest IIPP Policy Brief by the GreenDEMO project team, led by @rainerkattel.bsky.social, presents a typology of innovative activities used by city governments.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/1Y4zcdZ

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water.

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes.

✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/CCt7e0M

✍️ 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/Iba7vWE

⏮️ On the Brink: A conversation with @unctad.bsky.social Secretary General @rebecagrynspan.bsky.social & IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social

Catch up on the official launch of the 2025 UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Report, held at IIPP.

📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/2kXzWya

🌎 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/CldAXDf

✍️ "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

🆕 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

🚀 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

⏮️ 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

🤖 Steering #AI towards public value creation.

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social explored how to steer #AI development to create value for all by establishing clear conditions for public investment and support on her Substack.

✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/UbYaRRW

🆕 A Bottom-Up Approach to Building a Climate Resilience Stack

The recent 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/BE4BgPs

❌ 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/bI4ohOT