🆕 Examining Policy Options to Reduce Electricity Bills in Great Britain
Join us for the launch of the latest report by @drdonalbrown.bsky.social and Matthew Lockwood, with the authors in conversation with @IIPP_UCL Research Fellow Anna Hope Emerson.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/uoGcSaF
🆕 A Global Council for a Common Good Economy
IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Spanish Minister @carloscuerpo.bsky.social launched the new Global Council for a Common Good Economy in Barcelona during the Global Progressive Mobilisation.
✍️ Learn more in our news story: buff.ly/cnqDafp
🆕 A Mission-Aligned World Bank
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @laramerling.bsky.social's new working paper considers how the World Bank’s operational architecture & institutional design need to evolve to deliver mission-oriented development.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/fYhyHev
🔄 Breaking the Housing-Finance Cycle.
IIPP Professor of Economics and Finance @jryancollins.bsky.social spoke with Tim Williams on the Grimshaw Cities Podcast about the economics of housing and the drivers of housing crises.
🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/SIhuNmy
🏙️ Tackling London's housing crisis
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Professor in Economics and Finance @jryancollins.bsky.social will both be speaking at the 2026 London Housing Summit tomorrow, organised by @centreforlondon.bsky.social.
➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/huljY1N
🚀 How can states build the capacity to govern for the common good?
Join us at the fourth annual UCL IIPP FORUM 2026, 16–17 June in London.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/fZlA7M2
✍️ How Do Cities Adapt to Tackle Grand Challenges?
Catch up on our 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel with
@cityofsound.bsky.social in conversation with @mazzucatom.bsky.social, James Anderson, Ruth Puttick & Bridgette Morris
📷 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/sKqsT82
✍️ Public Administration claims to be an eclectic and global field. Is its teaching?
IIPP MPA Alum Priyanka Bhupalan's thesis analyses to what extent the development of a global, pluralist scholarship is underway in PA teaching.
🔗 Read her thesis here: buff.ly/Aqexktn
📣 Calling all city leaders!
The Public Sector Capabilities Index is now recruiting cities to participate. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent blog outlines why cities should join the Index & what they can gain from participating.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/JphB6c2
@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social
✍️ Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers
IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples in his recent article for @techpolicypress.bsky.social.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/qt5rz60
🆕 Innovation in Government Short Course
IIPP’s new 6-week hybrid online and in-person short course, designed for senior and mid-level professionals, teaches the key building blocks, tools, & knowledge needed to make your work in missions-oriented government a success.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Z4NuWS8
💾 Beyond Floppy Disk Economics
Capitalism needs a new operating system. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's latest @foreignpolicy.com article outlines how to rewrite the global economic framework for a progressive multilateralism.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/dqZOY4k
🤝 A Global Council for a Common Good Economy
Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Minister @carloscuerpo.bsky.social launched the Global Council for a Common Good Economy today in Barcelona. The council will be hosted by the Government of Spain, with @IIPP_UCL as the main academic partner.
⌛️ Last chance to register for The London Housing Summit 2026!
IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social will be speaking on 'Demand and Distribution for the Homes London Has' at the London Housing Summit 2026, organised by @centreforlondon.bsky.social.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/7M9dlhk
🚀 What does it take to build capable public institutions today?
Join us at the fourth annual UCL IIPP FORUM 2026, 16–17 June in London.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/fZlA7M2
🇨🇳 Innovation bureaucracy goes to China
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social reflects on his recent book tour in China, reflecting on what it means to talk about the entrepreneurial state in a country that is no longer catching up, but leading in many sectors
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/wbyNbOB
✍️ Interest rates are not the tool to solve inflation caused by the US’s war with Iran
IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social argues that the Bank of England tightening its monetary policy is the wrong approach to global supply-side shocks.
🔗 Read his new piece in theguardian.com: buff.ly/60sfwaA
✍️ World Bank Missions in Practice
At this year's annual IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social launched her latest paper on 'A Mission-Aligned World Bank: From ambition to delivery', co-authored with @laramerling.bsky.social.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/H2Gy5En
✍️ Theory and realism in economics
The recent paper by IIPP Associate Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social revisits the work of Richard R. Nelson, reflecting on his legacy and work on why economic models must better account for real-world processes.
🔗 Read her paper here: buff.ly/4sDW4KA
🆕 Innovation in Government Short Course
IIPP’s new 6-week hybrid online and in-person short course, designed for senior and mid-level professionals, teaches the key building blocks, tools, & knowledge needed to make your work in missions-oriented government a success.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Z4NuWS8
❗️Starting in 1 hour - Launching IIPP's Digital Case Studies: The Story Behind UK Notify
Join IIPP's @eaves.ca, Mike Bracken, @jordynfetter.bsky.social, and Kassim Vera for a virtual session on UK Notify as a key example of digital public infrastructure in practice.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/mWxBRBV
💸 UK’s multibillion AI push may rest on “phantom investments”, warns IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social in a new @theguardian.com investigation. #BigTech can inflate data centre jobs and economic impact to please governments eager to show growth.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/gfyQHBO
🤖 The reality of AI investment and job creation in the UK
IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke with Matthew Wright on @lbc.co.uk on 'hugely inflated' jobs figures for AI data centres presented by the UK government.
🎧 Listen to their conversation here: buff.ly/CaiTcRR
🗺️ Mapping Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
What does it mean to count Digital Public Infrastructure? IIPP Research Assistant Michelle Wronski outlines the methodology behind the numbers, and the key challenges with counting #DPI.
✍️ Read her new blog: buff.ly/Axz0Vgr
🆕 Examining Policy Options to Reduce Electricity Bills in Great Britain
Join us for the launch of the latest report by @drdonalbrown.bsky.social and Matthew Lockwood, with the authors in conversation with @IIPP_UCL Research Fellow Anna Hope Emerson.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/uoGcSaF
🚀 Missions in Practice - Turning Ambition into Delivery
IIPP Prof. @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @laramerling.bsky.social will discuss their new paper with Arturo Franco and Alexia Latortue at today's World Bank Knowledge Café session.
📺 Watch the talk here (13:15 ET / 18:15 GMT): buff.ly/WSQHsKa
🥕 Carrots with(out) sticks
@IIPP_UCL's Katie Kedward and
@jryancollins.bsky.social, together with @danielagabor.bsky.social, explored the role of central bank interventions in credit and financial markets in support of decarbonization.
🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/n2VRTOd
🇮🇪 From Development to Dependence
How does overreliance on foreign direct investment affect economic & innovation capacities? IIPP MPA alum Jack O'Connor analyses the case of Ireland & highlights the need to rethink public policy.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/wgXxRhh
➡️ Discover the MPA: buff.ly/7Lz7Wpj
🆕 Launching IIPP's Digital Case Studies: The Story Behind UK Notify
Join IIPP's @eaves.ca, Mike Bracken, @jordynfetter.bsky.social, and Kassim Vera for a virtual session on UK Notify as a key example of digital public infrastructure in practice.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/M4Kpk5x
💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water.
IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes.
✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/IPwShlQ
