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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
📍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
⚠️ 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

🗺️ Discover the dpimap.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 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
🆕 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 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest

Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.

📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts

The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article by IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social calls for investment, sustained coordination, & continuous learning to strengthen city governments.

🔗Read more: buff.ly/Ej4PahD
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚀 We’re looking for a branding and communications partner

IIPP is inviting proposals to develop branding and communications for the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), the first global tool designed to assess dynamic capabilities in city governments.

➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/5ZIahS1
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM