Post on 21-Jan-2017
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Billions spent on innovation and growth policy…
… but little evidence on what works, and what doesn’t
£10 billion
€152 billion
A global collaboration bringing together governments, foundations and researchers to develop and test different approaches to increase innovation, support high-growth entrepreneurship and accelerate business growth.
Designing research spaces for collaboration & innovation
What is the effect of different types of proximity on
collaboration and knowledge generation in scientific settings?
MIT and Stockholm School of Economics
Increasing business-science links and technology transfer
Can innovation vouchers “nudge” SMEs to build successful
collaborations with knowledge providers, and help SMEs grow?
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Comparing entrepreneurship training curricula
What is the impact of different types of entrepreneurial training programmes (and the channels
behind these effects, if any)?
Bocconi University and IADB
Identifying the effect of tech incubators on startups
Is there an effect of incubator spaces and mentoring on
startups’ survival and their economic performance (and if so,
why)?
NIESR and LSE
Supporting high-growth potential businesses
What is the impact of external advice on business growth? (and is an initial assessment sufficient
or is on-going support to implement changes required?)
CBS, LSE and Stanford University
Incentivising employees to contribute new ideas
Can subtle non-monetary nudges be used to influence
intrapreneurial behaviour in a large corporation?
Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University
There are multiple ways to experiment with RCTs
Full impact evaluation
Testing tweaks to existing
programmes
Experimental policy
development
www.innovationgrowthlab.org
• T h e n e w g l o b a l l a b o r a t o r y f o r i n n o v a t i o n a n d g r o w t h p o l i c y