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Read the latest blogs from the IGL network.

Reviewing IP Management Clinics for SMEs with the World Intellectual Property Organisation

By Wanda Mollica and Sara Garcia Arteagoitia on Monday, 2 December 2024.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) drive economic growth, innovation, and job creation worldwide. A strong Intellectual Property (IP) strategy can play a vital role in unlocking their full potential, helping them protect innovations, attract investment, and explore new market opportunities. By effectively managing IP, SMEs can strengthen product development, secure funding, and enhance their competitiveness. For these reasons, incorporating IP strategically is essential to foster innovation, build market presence, and sustain growth.

Building better SME support through data and evidence use

By Edoardo Trimarchi on Wednesday, 27 November 2024.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of economic growth, driving innovation, job creation, and employment in countries across the world. Business development support (BDS) programmes are an essential tool for governments to foster a vibrant SME ecosystem offering resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to help these enterprises innovate, scale, and compete. But the question - one that is core to our work - remains: How can governments ensure their support programs truly make a difference?

Unlocking Innovative Potential

By Wanda Maria Mollica on Thursday, 27 June 2024.

The Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) is delighted to announce the launch of the Unlocking Innovative Potential: Experimentation Programme. This one-year project, funded by UK Research and Innovation, supports the efforts to expand and diversify the UK R&D workforce by enabling a step change in how interventions are evaluated and optimised.

Unpicking the productivity puzzle – What have we learnt from the UK’s Business Basics Programme?

By James Phipps & Rob Fuller on Wednesday, 28 February 2024.

The question of how to raise productivity among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has long presented a challenge to policymakers around the world. In 2018, the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) worked with Innovate UK and IGL to launch an innovative approach to this problem, creating a fund to experiment with interventions to boost productivity among SMEs.

People want governments to involve them in solving society’s biggest challenges - this is how to do it

By Peter Baeck on Tuesday, 6 February 2024.

Through our work with the European Commission to promote policy experimentation and ensure citizens’ engagement in the EU five societal missions, we gathered insights from a survey of 4600 people from six EU Countries about their motivations and attitudes to citizen engagement. This blog outlines some of the key insights from the survey.

Experimentation is more popular than you might think

By Rob Fuller on Wednesday, 24 January 2024.

In IGL we’re firmly convinced that there are major benefits to experimentation in public policy, to find out what works and to make programmes work better before they are launched at scale. But it has never been clear how much our enthusiasm for experiments is shared among the wider public. We recently had the opportunity to look into this, and found that the public have a much better understanding of the need for experimentation than we’d realised.

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