The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) exists to change how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Our work equips leaders to co-design economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable and inclusive. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses an unprecedented economic, social, political, and scientific challenge at a global level.

IIPP research across health policy, debt and macroeconomic policy, industrial and innovation strategy, green finance and sustainability, public sector capabilities and institutional design, and the importance of public value and market-shaping, is more relevant than ever. IIPP is working with leading politicians and policymakers around the world at the supranational, national, regional, and city levels to revive notions of public value and public purpose at the centre of political economy and policy practice.

We are publishing a series of briefing papers on key issues facing the world, which you can read below.

In addition, we are curating a new blog series on responses to COVID-19, which you can read on IIPP's Medium.

LinkUCL IIPP COVID-19 Briefing Papers 01: Stakeholder capitalism during and after COVID-19

LinkUCL IIPP COVID-19 Briefing Papers 02: Inequality, unemployment and precarity 

LinkUCL IIPP COVID-19 Briefing Papers 03: Reshaping global health systems in response to COVID-19

LinkUCL IIPP COVID-19 Briefing Papers 04: A green economic renewal after the

Contributors to the IIPP COVID-19 Briefing Papers

Lead Researchers and Coordinators of the UCL IIPP Vatican Task Force:

  • Mariana Mazzucato | Founding Director of UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value
  • Asker Voldsgaard | Ph.D. Candidate and Research Lead of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Vatican Task Force

Co-contributors:

  • Antonio Andreoni | Head of Research and Associate Professor of Industrial Economics at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Kenneth Creamer | Economics Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • George Dibb | Head of Industrial Strategy and Policy Engagement at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • James Galbraith | Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Simone Gasperin | Ph.D. Candidate at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Jayati Ghosh | Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • Katie Kedward | Researcher in Sustainable Finance at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Stephanie Kelton | Professor Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University, New York
  • Henry Lishi Li | Research Fellow in Health Innovation and Policy Engagement at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Martha McPherson | Head of Green Economy and Sustainable Growth at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Carlota Perez | Honorary Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and at SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex; Adjunct Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at TalTech
  • Josh Ryan-Collins | Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)