Rainer Kattel
rainerkattel.bsky.social
Rainer Kattel
@rainerkattel.bsky.social
Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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✍️ Reframing urban innovation around capabilities, directionality, and the politics of change

IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that cities need a new investment logic to steer innovation towards societal wellbeing.

🔗 Read his recent Substack here: buff.ly/lHTsVD7
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Growth won’t save Starmer. It’s a metric, not a mission. What if the real mission was peace — at home (less division, stronger communities) and abroad (diplomacy, democracy, humanitarian leadership)? Peace gives politics direction. Growth doesn’t.

Read on: open.substack.com/pub/rainerka...
Growth Is Not a Mission — But Peace Could Be
Can Starmer save himself, and his government, by rethinking his mission?
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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✍️ 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/8Zf9nsE
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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✍️ 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/a5G9TRi
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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⏮️ A look back at the launch of the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & @nycfood.bsky.social.

📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/8qHThzr
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Once seen mainly as centers of service delivery, cities are now the front lines of modern governance. As demands grow, municipal authorities must be empowered to act decisively in the public interest, argue @iipp-ucl.bsky.social's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social. bit.ly/48sGOoH
Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts
Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain how well-resourced, adaptive municipal governance can protect residents from future shocks.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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✍️ 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/5oUiob3
October 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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✍️ From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty

Catch up on our 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel chaired by Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social & featuring @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @francescabria.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Mike Bracken

🔗 Watch the recording: buff.ly/m44Tj3k
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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⏮️ A look back at the launch of the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & @nycfood.bsky.social.

📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZpWlmc4
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Oft werden Investitionen in Stadtverwaltungen als weniger wichtig angesehen als solche in Infrastruktur oder Sicherheit Das ist ein Irrtum", schreiben @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social in ihrem lesenswerten Artikel @surplusmagazin.bsky.social

www.surplusmagazin.de/demokratie-s...
Für die Demokratie: Städte brauchen dringend Investitionen
In den Städten zeigen sich Kürzungen in der Verwaltung direkt. Sie sind aber auch der Ort, an dem Innovation und Investitionen besonders effektiv wirken können.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🎤 From Insight to Action

Join us for the launch of the new Public Sector Capabilities Index report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anacláudia Rossbach, and Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/QWael2j
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚀 Launching our newest report on Public Sector Capabilities Index @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on Oct 3. Cities helped us co-create a tool to show how govts can learn, adapt & deliver in complexity. In person or online, register here

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From Insight to Action: Scaling the Public Sector Capabilities Index
Launch of Public Sector Capabilities Index newest report: Assessing City Government Dynamic Capabilities.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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✍️ Getting to “zero bureaucracy” takes a lot of bureaucracy.

IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that how we orchestrate bureaucracy matters to deliver fast, fair, and trustworthy services that create public value.

🔗 Read his latest blog here: buff.ly/9MOzxFd
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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👋🏻 A warm welcome to our new MPA Cohort

We are pleased to welcome the latest IIPP MPA Cohort yesterday, with Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social and our core faculty kicking off our introduction week!

🔗 Learn more about our MPA Programme here: buff.ly/nfkcOk7
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck in old habits — grant-giving, compliance, and rigid oversight — when the world needs institutions that **learn, adapt, and lead**.

Full article 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
www.socialeurope.eu
September 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Zero bureaucracy” isn’t the absence of rules — it’s the presence of good ones, embedded in routines & digital infrastructures.

Full blog 👉 medium.com/iipp-blog/how-much-bureaucracy-do-we-need-to-achieve-zero-bureaucracy-9c586274da0a
How much bureaucracy do we need to achieve “zero bureaucracy”?
By Rainer Kattel
medium.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A new academic year @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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🪪 Why don't we have ID cards in the UK?

IIPP Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social joined @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room to discuss what a possible ID card system might look like in the UK, and if it would work.

🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/cWLppNb
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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✍️ Can Design Transform Governance?

IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social, co-author of the recently published Public Design Evidence Review (PDER), reflects on the role of design in creating better public policies and services.

🔗 Read his new blog post here: buff.ly/2zMzPpH
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🎤 From Insight to Action: Scaling the Public Sector Capabilities Index

Join us at the launch of the new IIPP Public Sector Capabilities Index report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson.

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/BlceTFU
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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✍️ Are ‘dynamic capabilities’ just ‘public sector innovation’ with a different name?

IIPP's Ruth Puttick, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, and @rainerkattel.bsky.social unpack this often-asked question in their latest blog post, exploring the close relation of both terms.

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September 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Good point by ‪@rainerkattel.bsky.social‬. He would agree that
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck between rigid rules at the top and scattered experiments at the bottom. If they can’t become mission architects, we’ll fail on climate, digital sovereignty & even defence R&D.

More in my new Social Europe piece 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
www.socialeurope.eu
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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"Too often, we see rigidity at the top, experimentation at the grassroots, and a weak middle. Innovation agencies should be the bridge—but their structures and practices remain stuck in the past" www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno... @rainerkattel.bsky.social
Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
www.socialeurope.eu
September 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck between rigid rules at the top and scattered experiments at the bottom. If they can’t become mission architects, we’ll fail on climate, digital sovereignty & even defence R&D.

More in my new Social Europe piece 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
www.socialeurope.eu
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM