Big Innovation Centre

The Big Innovation Centre is an exciting new initiative, existing to make the UK a global innovation hub. Chaired by Will Hutton, it brings together some of the worlds’ leading companies with key policy institutions to encourage innovation and to balance and grow the UK economy. It carries out business-oriented research, backing up emerging ideas with evidence. With support from all political parties, the Centre will make recommendations on how the UK can build a world-class innovation ecosystem.

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Cities

Cities are vital for innovation, providing the labour markets, specialised suppliers and knowledge necessary for new products. Drawing on almost a decade of Cities 2020 and Ideopolis programme experience and evidence-based research, our team work are working with local and national government to help understand innovation systems within cities and drive economic growth at a local level.

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Innovative organisations

The Work Foundation’s Centre for Workforce Effectiveness is launching a major new initiative in 2012, examining the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems within organisations. The ecosystem is shifting towards open innovation, changing the way organisations manage and lead themselves, and at the heart of the shift are new and innovative ways of managing people and talent. Drawing on decades of experience, this programme will provide evidence-based insight into the strategies needed to successfully manage people in an open innovation era.

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