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Tackling global challenges through mission-oriented innovation policy
Prof Mazzucato (IIPP Director) discussed the challenges and opportunities for mission-oriented innovation with Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University) and Carlota Perez (Honorary Prof, IIPP) at the RSA.…
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Economic growth continues to drive material use in Western Europe, according to new research
A new study led by UCL ISR finds that Western European economies have not yet managed to ‘decouple’ material use from economic growth…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Mission-Oriented Innovation in Latin America with the Inter-American Development Bank
Professor Mazzucato is the lead scientist for an Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) project exploring mission-oriented innovation in Mexico, Colombia and Chile.…
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
New project to rethink health innovation with the Open Society Foundations
IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato is beginning a new project (2017–2019) with the Open Society Foundations to explore alternative innovation models in health.…
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Electric car revolution would be fuelled by 'nudging' drivers to smart tariffs, UCL research finds
Electric vehicle owners can be successfully ‘nudged’ into choosing smarter, lower-carbon tariffs for charging their cars via simple email campaigns.…
UCL Energy Institute
Skills Shortage in Construction: building the future post-Brexit | 5 October 2017
In collaboration with History & Policy, on 5 October 2017 the School of Construction and Project Management will host a one day conference on skills shortage in the construction industry.…
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
How can technology improve humanitarian response?
Dr Adam Dennett and David Concannon joined the panel discussions at More London Riverside on Wednesday 17 May for an event on technology and humanitarian response co-hosted by CASA.…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Nightlife Spaces and the Future City: The Bartlett Future Cities Doctoral Network
Nightlife Spaces and the Future City: The Bartlett Future Cities Doctoral Network. 22 May 2017, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Location. Room G01, Central House, UCL, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN. The Bartlett…
UCL Urban Laboratory
Visualising Community Inequalities Public Engagement Case Study: Medellín, Colombia
CASA researchers are working with young people in Colombia to identify and analyse the ways in which they experience their local urban environments.…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Smart Cities and China: reflections from Professor Michael Batty
31 years after his last lecture in Sun Yet Sen, China, Professor Michael Batty returned to SunYatSen University to give his 2017 lecture on ‘Smart Cities and China’ in May.…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis