About
The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is changing how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
IIPP's mission
The world is facing pressing challenges — social, technological and economic. What is the future of the welfare state? How can digital platforms be governed in democratic and inclusive ways? What new forms of investment, regulation and collaboration can best tackle global warming?
The answers to these questions require public and private organisations to collaborate in new ways and become more purpose-driven. In this context, governments require different tools and capabilities to co-create and co-shape markets, not just fix market failures.
IIPP’s work is dedicated to this ambition. We bring revived notions of public value and public purpose to the centre of political economy and to concrete policy practice. Our work equips leaders to co-design growth that is innovation-led, sustainable and inclusive.
In order to achieve this mission, IIPP works across a number of key areas:
New research for a new movement
Our interdisciplinary research tackles the complex relationships between economic, technological and social changes across four cross-cutting pillars of inquiry.
Training the next generation of leaders
Our teaching programmes connect theories of innovation with new thinking about public value creation.
Policy
We help global policymakers discover better solutions to complex problems in areas like industrial strategy, innovation policy, economic development, and institutional design.
Engaging the public
To create a shift in economic thinking, we must test our ideas through civic engagement by working closely with the worlds of arts, economics, architecture, and design.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at IIPP
Read our statement
We are committed to addressing key concerns raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Contact us
If you'd like to get in touch about our work, you can contact us through the following details.
General enquiries:
Click to email. ipp-admin@ucl.ac.uk
Student enquiries:
Click to email. iipp.studentenquiries@ucl.ac.ukMedia and press enquiries
Enquiries for the Institute’s Director, Prof Mariana Mazzucato
Click to email. iipp-dir-comms@ucl.ac.uk
Enquiries for the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, Michael Lucibella
Click to email. m.lucibella@ucl.ac.uk