How can nudges promote intrapreneurship?
An IGL Grant funded RCT in a large international firm looks at the effect of communication with employees on internal innovation competitions.
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Read the latest blogs from the IGL network.
What prevents organisations from using more evidence and RCTs?
IGL is undertaking a study on the barriers that prevent organisations from using randomised controlled trials to evaluate programmes and, more generally, using evidence to inform policies. Take part in our survey to give us your perspective.
The future of entrepreneurship
Dane Stangler, vice-president of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation, spoke at the first annual IGL Conference on what challenges the future holds for entrepreneurship.
Three takeaways from the IGL Conference
On May 24-26 we welcomed over 200 senior policy makers, practitioners and researchers working in innovation, entrepreneurship and growth policy at the IGL Conference. Here are three quick takeaways from the events.
Learning from policy experimentation: some alternatives beyond RCTs
Triin Edovald discusses the main lessons from one of the sessions held at our 2016 IGL Global Conference
Bringing experimentation and evidence to innovation policy: a radical idea whose time has come
Ahead of our #IGL16 conference on 24-26 May, Geoff Mulgan and Albert Bravo-Biosca explore the growing movement of experimental innovation policy.
How to learn and improve on what we do in the rugged landscape of programmes and policies?
As more and more governments attempt to base their policies on sound evidence, randomised controlled trials - the 'gold standard' in evaluation - are gaining a stronger role in determining which policies work. But are they really the best way to tell us which policies should be used? This blogpost explores how to improve our ability to learn and better design things that work.
As much as €152 billion is spent across Europe supporting businesses: but does it work?
Our estimates for the spending on business support across the European Union, based on our research for the UK, indicate that as much as €152 billion were spent in 2014. In this blog, we explore what this means for Europe, and what could be done better.
Business support research - methodology
This blog post outlines how we arrived at the figure of £9.8 billion in UK government spending on business support. Continue reading
How much does the UK spend supporting its businesses? (Updated)
Our research on suggests the British government spent £9.8 billion in 2013-2014 supporting its businesses. But has this spending worked? In this blogpost, we call for more evaluation and experimentation in business support programmes.
Making innovation and growth policy more experimental: The first year of IGL
365 days ago IGL was born. We launched IGL with the aim of contributing to make innovation and growth policy much more experimental. A question many people ask is why this is important (and what we are doing about it).