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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
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💭 How can we rethink capitalism?

Join IIPP's groundbreaking Rethinking Capitalism module, led by Professors @cacrisalves.bsky.social and @damonsilvers.bsky.social, to critically examine how economic systems shape, and are shaped by, grand challenges.

🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/oyUW2AB
📍Happening tomorrow: Extroverted Financialisation

Join us for the launch of Dr. Mareike Beck's new book: 'Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD Debt', offering a new account of the Americanization of global finance.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/FZIyMAX
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🤝 Co-Creating Prosperity: Designing Finance and Future for the Amazon

@iipp-sea.bsky.social‬ (SEA) convened a reflective space with women economists and practitioners on the Amazon’s most pressing ecological and financial transition challenges.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/5KA3X9s
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣 PhD Opportunity at UCL IIPP

IIPP is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship supervised by Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social, exploring new economic theories to support mission-oriented green industrial strategies.

🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/znd5LR0
❗️Deadline: Dec 14, 2025
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
✍️ School meals could drive economic growth and food system transformation

A recent report by IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Sarah Doyle examines how governments can use school meals procurement to transform global food systems.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/5HW2SH1
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🇧🇷 Convening leading female economists at #COP30

The latest SEA Reflective Space, hosted by @mazzucatom.bsky.social, focused on how to design institutions to fight climate change, bridging divides between economics, science, & traditional knowledge.

🔗Discover past Reflective Spaces: buff.ly/r13jin1
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
✍️ A New Approach to Growth, Development, and State Capacity

Catch up on the 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring Prof @mazzucatom.bsky.social in conversation with Jennifer Chapman & @kateraworth.bsky.social.

🔗 Read our recap and watch the recording here: buff.ly/WPb9JQ0
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🆕 State Capacity and Capabilities for a Just Green World

The latest report by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Minister @estherdweck.bsky.social outlines how to organise states to deliver climate action, drawing on work with @gestaogovbr.bsky.social.

🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/cCKE7kv
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
✍️ The Entrepreneurial State Must Lead on Climate Change

Climate change remains one of the most pressing challenges we face. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlined how the entrepreneurial state can lead the transition to net zero.

🔗 Read her 2022 article here: buff.ly/WC7ompm
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Great to speak about cultural industries' impact on climate adaptation with Margareth Menezes & others yesterday at #COP30. We discussed the need for new kinds of value frameworks – placing creative industries at the heart of our economy.  

Read our paper ➡️ buff.ly/ZBwWXzt
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Great to meet with Johan Rockström & others yesterday at #COP30. Water flows through all sectors—from food security to energy to health. As our report argues, achieving climate goals requires recognising water as a global common good.

Read the report ➡️ watercommission.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
⚠️ Financial Stability at Risk

Recent research by IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social & Research Fellow Lydia Marsden shows the role of finance in ecosystem degradation, urging for systemic reform to protect nature and the economy.

✍️ Read our news story here: buff.ly/Sm1cTJh
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🔑 The Key to Unlocking Climate Progress

At #COP30, IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social highlights the importance of finance enabling promised climate action, and building state capacity to administer and implement change.

🔗 Read her latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article: buff.ly/Gh4i6Kg
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎤 Bridging Silos Across Economics, Science & Traditional Knowledge

IIPP Director and SEA Chair @mazzucatom.bsky.social participated in a key discussion on integrated climate policy approaches, emphasizing the role of Indigenous and traditional peoples as protagonists in climate solutions.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🆕 Book Launch: Extroverted Financialisation

Join us for the launch of Dr. Mareike Beck's new book: 'Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD Debt', offering a new account of the Americanization of global finance.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/FZIyMAX
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social
#IIPPInConversation
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🌍 The world faces an unprecedented water crisis

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social highlights the historic opportunity for South Africa, as it assumes the G20 presidency, to champion a new economics of water, valuing the hydrological cycle as a global common good.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/qFjWZoK
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
❗️#COP30 must be a turning point for delivering on climate goals

The latest paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Ulla Heher, launched at #COP30, proposes a mission-oriented approach to country platforms to tackle this challenge.

🔗 Read here: buff.ly/Z18hRPB
@thebartlettucl.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌎 A Global New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation

IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social) hosted a series of powerful workshops at the 2025 IIPP Forum, discussing key challenges and opportunities for a Global New Economy movement.

➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/vIJ4m0R
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
❗️We need new ideas, institutions, and policies to avoid climate breakdown

IIPP works closely with governments all over the world to rethink innovation and take on a market-shaping approach to the climate crisis and the green transition.

🔗 Learn more about our work here: buff.ly/2KvvUiA
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
💭 How can we rethink capitalism?

Join IIPP's groundbreaking Rethinking Capitalism module, led by Professors @cacrisalves.bsky.social and @damonsilvers.bsky.social, to critically examine how economic systems shape, and are shaped by, grand challenges.

🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/w3MDl7w
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination.

🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/93Wo42J
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🇨🇴 Balancing Growth and Sustainability

IIPP MPA Student Camila Idrovo explores Colombia’s AI-driven data centre boom, its opportunities for digital growth, investment, and job creation, as well as the significant sustainability challenges it brings.

✍️ Read her blog here: buff.ly/hjFexaf
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🆕 2025 State of Digital Public Infrastructure Report

The latest report by IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social, Research Fellow Krisstina Rao, and Professor @eaves.ca provides a unique insight into the global state of #DPI

🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/PFqIbmW

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November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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A bold economic transformation requires an equally ambitious transformation of the state — with new tools & institutions to shape markets & direct growth.

Our new report shares recommendations for how to move from promises to action on climate goals.

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/cCKE7kv #COP30
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🔔 Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State

IIPP's recent case study explores how the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) addressed a government-wide challenge of notification and communication by developing a modular digital infrastructure.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/6NlQaUU
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The world isn't short of climate targets or commitments. What's missing is the ability to turn investments into tangible outcomes: state capacity to implement and coordinate action.

That’s why this week’s COP30 must be a Solutions COP focused on delivery, not just declarations.

Link in next post.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM