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Policy Live is back for 2025. We’re excited to announce that Policy Live will return this year with a fresh line-up of speakers, sessions and ideas. The challenges facing the UK are well rehearsed: ...
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www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-electricity-to-gas-price-ratio-explained-how-a-green-ratio-would-make-bills-cheaper-and-greener/ ...
Most people live in homes that burn gas or other fossil fuels to provide heat and hot water. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, we have to switch to greener heating. Heat pumps, which run on ...
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been laying the groundwork for building the research and funding agenda of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, the European Commission’s new flagship ...
www.nesta.org.uk/report/the-future-of-food-opportunities-to-improve-health-through-reformulation/ ...
We've used a big data approach to measure and map the UK games industry and track its evolution over time.
Chris led Nesta's research interests into how startups and new technologies can drive economic growth, and what this means for businesses, intermediaries and for the government. Jonathan works within ...
This report illuminates the power of people in movements to improve health and proposes the need for new models of engagement between institutions and social movements.
Kirsten was an Executive Director at Nesta and led Nesta’s Research, Analysis and Policy team. There are many ways to help bring good ideas to life. Nesta works to uncover, develop and test, new ways ...
The Hangzhou AI TownEleven days before the AIDP was released, on 9 July 2017, the Hangzhou AI Town (杭州人工智能小镇) opened for business, with the mission to link together e-commerce company Alibaba, ...
Here we attempt to open up part of the debate on data governance; suggesting how to address the twin goals of greater control for citizens, and greater value for the public as a whole. We argue that ...