UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)

🪪 Why don't we have ID cards in the UK? IIPP Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance Rainer Kattel joined David Aaronovitch on BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room to discuss what a possible ID card system might look like in the UK, and if it would work. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/ecyXqcKQ

🌎 Promoting Digital Sovereignty in Latin America In a session with public servants from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay, IIPP Professor and Head of Research Dr. Cecilia Rikap argued that the only way for Latin American governments to challenge the power of #BigTech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google is through regional cooperation to develop a common strategy and build a democratic alternative. 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e5SyWGav

✍️ A New Approach to Growth, Development, and State Capacity Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel discussion featuring Professor Mariana Mazzucato in conversation with Minister Jenny Chapman and Economist Kate Raworth on building state capacity for a green transition. 🔗 Read our recap and watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/e6TEfX7M

⏮️ A look back at the 'State Transformation in Brazil' report launch. In February, an IIPP delegation led by Director Mariana Mazzucato travelled to Brasilia to launch the 'State Transformation in Brazil' report, marking a pivotal moment in the partnership between IIPP & Brazil's Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos. ✍️ Read our news story on the launch here: https://lnkd.in/ehK5caG2 🔗 Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gffhqMcF

🇪🇺 Missions and Public Procurement in Europe Academic research and policy discussions show increased interest in public procurement as a powerful lever for achieving various policy goals. The latest working paper by IIPP Professor Rainer Kattel, Amy Lai, Chiara Bleckenwegner, Piret Tõnurist, and Veiko Lember, brings together ongoing and emerging policy practices and academic discussions to examine how public procurement has been used for mission-oriented policy-making, based on a systematic literature review of the period 1978-2020, focusing on the European context. 🔗 Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eSVPMmmy

🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour Every time we ask ChatGPT to draft a speech or proofread an email, we are quietly drawing on the labour of millions. Generative AI models are trained on publicly accessible creative content, yet offer little to the artists, journalists, coders, and others who produce it. IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato and PhD Candidate Fausto Gernone propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity. ✍️ Read their new Project Syndicate article here: https://lnkd.in/eJipDWf5

✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could." What if the real experts on the future of work aren’t policymakers or CEOs, but workers themselves? Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring Social Entrepreneur Hilary Cottam in conversation with IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato and Anne-Marie Slaughter on her new book 'The Work We Need'. 🔗 Read our recap and watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/ejsww9zg

📖 Learning to Transform: Building Government Capacity for Public Purpose IIPP Applied Learning team reflects on their recent practice-led workshop on applied learning in government at the 2024 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum. The workshop brought together global collaborators, public sector practitioners, and learning partners to explore how governments worldwide are utilising applied learning as a tool for institutional change, drawing on IIPP's applied learning work in Brazil and Barbados. ✍️ Learn more in the team's blog post here: https://buff.ly/1kydLtn Bridget Gildea Simangaliso Angela Mpofu Manuel Maldonado Acosta Barbara Chesi

✍️ Are ‘dynamic capabilities’ just ‘public sector innovation’ with a different name? IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick, PhD Candidate Fernando Fernandez-Monge, and Professor Rainer Kattel unpack this often-asked question in their latest blog post, exploring the close relation of both terms and how to develop and foster dynamic capabilities in city governments. 🔗 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eUriw5_H

☁️ South America’s digital sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP's Head of Research, Professor Dr. Cecilia Rikap, calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region in her latest article for openDemocracy. ✍️ Read her article here: https://lnkd.in/eAvXxqnm