Trials

The Impact of Intellectual Property Protection on Firm Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

To what extent does patent protection change product market outcomes?

The granting of patent rights is a central public policy tool to incentivise innovation, but the incentive that patents offer works indirectly. Rather than directly subsidising R&D costs (as in other mechanisms, such as tax credits), or attempting to make up for any differences between the public and private incentives to research, patents provide incentive through product market protection.

Corporate Nudging & Intrapreneurship

Can subtle non-monetary nudges be used to influence intrapreneurial behaviour in a large corporation?

Intrapreneurship, or bottom-up entrepreneurial activities by employees from existing firms, can be an important source of innovation and organisational growth. Management of intrapreneurship, however, is highly complex as it is typically considered discretionary behaviour and is generally not formalised in job descriptions. Innovation competitions is one way to stimulate this type of behaviour within firms

From our blog

Monday, 14 October 2024

IGL has launched a new Data Science and Technology Unit. Find out what it will do for a vision of data powered policy and organisations.

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Discover what has been happening since the launch of our Unlocking Innovative Potential: Experimentation Programme

Thursday, 29 August 2024

Discover the insights of our University-Industry Impact Accelerator, a structured training programme on the foundations of experimentation that we designed to boost university-industry collaboration.

Discover our new programme!
We just launched our "Unlocking Innovative Potential: Experimentation" programme.
Learn about how organisations are becoming more experimental
Despite the importance of innovation and high-growth entrepreneurship for economic growth, there is still little evidence on how best to create impactful support. We believe that we need a more experimental approach to innovation and growth policy, trialling new instruments but also evaluating them more rigorously. Browse our Trials Database to see what organisations are learning from experimentation!

Our Partners

The Innovation Growth Lab is an international initiative led by Nesta in partnership with several public and private organisations around the world.

Our research network

The IGL Research Network includes over 100 researchers from around the world working on randomised controlled trials related to innovation, high-growth entrepreneurship and growth.

Asif Mehedi
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Jean Joohyun Oh
Columbia University
Jeremy Shapiro
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Patrick Gaule
CERGE-EI
Matthew Regele
Yale University
Leonardo Iacovone
The World Bank
Christoph Ihl
Hamburg University of Technology
Juan Mateos-Garcia
Nesta
Alicia Robb
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Santiago Reyes Ortega
World Bank
Emanuele Colonnelli
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Virginia Minni
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe
London School of Economics
Jana Gallus
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Irani Arráiz
IDB Invest
Sofia Bapna
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota