Driving policy impact through experimentation, evidence and data

Coefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, they have directed over $5 billion in grants as part of their mission to help others as much as possible with the resources available.

Founded in 1934 by industrialist Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the Foundation is a not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports high quality, impartial scientific research; fosters a robust, diverse scientific workforce; strengthens public understanding and engagement with science; and promotes the health of the institutions of scientific endeavor.

Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency. They support business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies and UK regions. They help businesses grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes, and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive, and easy to navigate. They help companies access expertise and equipment, build partnerships, and fund innovation work through grants or loans.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that aims to foster economic independence by advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success. The Kauffman Foundation has been a funder of many different entrepreneurship and innovation programmes in the United States, but the evidence base for what is effective remains thin. Now, with the proliferation of such programmes, they have the opportunity to build a stronger base of such evidence.

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) helps entrepreneurs and organisations to invest, develop and expand their businesses and projects both in the Netherlands and abroad. As a government agency that carries out the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate policy, they help entrepreneurs, NGOs, knowledge institutes, policymakers and organisations improve collaborations and strengthen their position.

The Argidius Foundation works to catalyse economic development in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Africa and Central America. Convinced of the potential that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hold for employment creation, income generation, and poverty reduction, their strategy focuses on building SMEs’ capacity and improving their access to finance to build profitable businesses and contribute to the sustainable development of their communities.

The CDTI Innovation is Spain’s public agency of the Ministry for Science, Innovation and Universities for the promotion of innovation and technological development by financing R&D&I business projects and supporting the creation and consolidation of technology-based enterprises (TBE) via venture capital and investment.

The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is driving innovation that will deliver improved public services, create new better-paid jobs and grow the economy. DSIT’s priorities include optimising public R&D investment, increasing levels of private R&D investment and promoting a diverse research and innovation system that connects discovery to new companies, growth and jobs.

The UK Department for Business and Trade is the department for economic growth. DBT believes monitoring and evaluation will help achieve its vision: to drive economic growth, create and support jobs and back British businesses at home and abroad, and help to level up the country. They use monitoring and evaluation to support policy and operational delivery, inform our interventions and guide decisions on whether to continue, stop or amend our interventions.

The Barcelona School of Economics is a community of researchers, professors, graduate students, and alumni in economics, statistics and social sciences. It was founded in 2006 as an institution for scientific cooperation between four existing academic and research units with a long tradition of collaboration. In 2020 IGL established a research partnership with BSE to foster cooperation between BSE and the IGL team from an office in Barcelona.

Nesta is the UK’s innovation agency for social good. It designs, tests and scales new solutions to society’s biggest problems, changing millions of lives for the better. Nesta’s ambitious 10-year strategy aligns its efforts behind three innovation missions working to promote a fairer start, a healthy life, and a sustainable future. IGL was launched within Nesta in 2014 and is one of its specialist enterprises.