2007

Making Innovative Places

London - 12 December AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley, leading thinker on innovation and author...

Big Green Challenge regional events

UK wide - 2 November - early December NESTA held a number of regional events throughout November and December to meet...

Demos Atlas of Ideas II

London - 3 December Wherever in the world you look, 'new entrants' are reshaping the landscape for science and technology-based innovation. But...

Silicon Connect - How innovation happens in Silicon Valley

London - 20 November George Osborne MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered a keynote address. Reid Hoffman, Megan Smith and James...

Silicon Connect - University/ Industry Collaboration forum

London - 20 November niversity technology transfer and licensing experts discussed best practice in the US and UK approaches. Experts included Dr...

Silicon Connect - Web 2.0 CEO forum

London - 19 November Leading CEOs of Web 2.0 companies and Silicon Valley discussed how to manage real-life strategic challenges facing young...

Get Connected

London - 15 November As part of Enterprise Week, Future Innovators hosted a speed-networking event.

Driving Innovation in Scotland

Perth, Scotland - 13 November his event focused on innovation across Scotland and the specific drivers of innovation including business, education and...

Low Carbon Innovators

London - 14 November Low Carbon Innovators showcased case studies and examples of new technologies, products and business models. The workshop provided...

Public Innovation Conference

London - 1 November his conference aimed to generate an awareness of public service innovations and to discuss the role of...

Corporate Open Innovation Challenge

London - 18 September t this event, NESTA launched its Corporate Open Innovation Challenge - a joint initiative with Procter &...

In and out of Sync

London - 12 September In and Out of Sync: The Challenge of Growing Social Innovations' by Geoff Mulgan with Rushanara Ali,...

Mass Collaboration

London - 11 September What sparks innovation? A clash of ideas; a fresh perspective; a fusion of expertise? NESTA Connect seeks...

Rural innovation

London - 5 September On 5 September, researchers and practitioners met to discuss rural policy agendas for a number of UK...

Explore the future of the creative industries in Scotland

Scottish Parliament - 3 September NESTA and Scotland's Futures Forum held a debate on the value and importance of the creative...

Provocation launch- Beginning at the Beginning

London - 13 July In the fourth of NESTA's Provocation series, Anthony Sargent and Katherine Zeserson examine and challenge the traditional place...

Environment Challenge launch

London - 12 July We launched our latest Challenge, led by our Innovation Challenges programme[innovations-challenges/], which will focus on climate change. The...

Destination Innovation

London - 10 July Guests joined us for an entertaining evening with Paul Sloane, an expert on innovation, lateral thinking and leadership,...

Ready for the future

Cardiff - 9 July This event looked at the skills and attitudes needed by young people in the future. DEMOS presented...

Crucible reception

London - 2 July This event, for Crucible participants and anyone with an interest in interdisciplinary research, was hosted by NESTA CEO,...

Hidden Innovation

London - 19 June NESTA hosted a panel discussion and launch event for two new reports on innovation - NESTA's Hidden...

Connect

London - 14 June NESTA Connect is a new programme, focused on creating new, unexpected or extreme collaborations. Our focus is...

Ready for the future- Edinburgh

Edinburgh - 7 June This event looked at the skills and attitudes needed by young people in the future. DEMOS presented...

Creating Entrepreneurship - A Launch Report on the Creative Industries

London - 21 May Following previous reports on the Creative Industries - Creating Value and Creating Growth - NESTA hosted the launch...

Bio-tech Exhibition

London - 10 May, 6-9pm NESTA Investments showcased some of its portfolio bio-tech companies, as well as other companies in this...

Education for Innovation

London - 8 May We hosted an interactive panel discussion to debate the role of the education system in helping to...

Intellectual Property - IP in practice

London - 27 - March NESTA hosted an interactive discussion on the next phase of IP in the UK - and...

Launch of NESTA Ventures and NESTA Capital

London - 15 - March Our investment funds - NESTA Ventures and NESTA Capital - were launched at an informal networking...

Open Innovation at the BBC

Policy Breakfast with Matt Locke, Head of Innovation for BBC New Media & Technology London - 14 - March Over the past...

Innovations Challenges

London - 8 - March On 8 March 2007 we launched our Innovation Challenges programme, which is designed to test new...

Has Britain lost its innovative edge?

London - 7 - March Podcast: Has Britain lost its innovative edge? Editorial Intelligence, NESTA, Friends Provident and Reuters invited a select...

Creative Industries showcase

London - 6 - March On 6 March 2007, Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, accompanied by Shaun Woodward MP, visited NESTA...

Uploading Innovation

London - 27 - February Attendees explored the impact of the emerging participatory culture enabled by the web on the future...

Provocation launch - Lead markets

Provocation Breakfast with Luke Georghiou, Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management and a Director of PREST, University of Manchester London...

Collaborate to Innovate - The rise of social networks

London - 15 - January On 15 January 2007 we hosted an event to explore the sociological perspective on collaborative innovation,...

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