UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)’s Post

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This is the point, right? Hurry up. It's time. We can philosophize all we want, but actually the climate emergency, but also many other urgencies that we have, like health pandemics. And yet we haven't treated our social problems, our climate problems with the same level of urgency that we tend to treat wars. Where, as I said the other day, money tends to come out of thin air. You know, where was that money before? But also we don't actually put enough attention on how to design solutions that are really problem oriented. You can't just throw money right at climate change, you can't just throw money at health, you can't just throw money in the city at knife crime. You actually need to formulate a policies that are, for example, informed by the people on the ground that are focused also on how all the different tools, whether it's procurement, whether it's the budgeting processes, but also literally the design of the partnerships. Think of all those innovation collaborations that we like to talk about, you know, public, private innovation collaboration around the vaccine, for example. But how is it designed? Was it truly? Focus on the global problem that was about getting the vaccines accessible around the world or is it just an output, right, So the whole outcomes versus outputs?