Innovate UK’s No Limits programme aims to transform the United Kingdom's skills and talent pipeline. This report proposes a specific approach to creating an innovation system that anyone can engage with, and receive the support necessary for success: a mission-oriented approach centred on shared goals for equity, diversity and inclusion.

While this report draws from the experience of Camden Council (London), many of the insights are widely relevant to governments globally. The authors argue that a mission-oriented procurement approach can support ambitious, dynamic governments to address the grand challenges of the 21st Century.

This paper examines the development of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic as an ideal example of an effective public-private partnership, and groundbreaking innovation in drug development.

This report explores mission-driven government as an alternative theory and practice of statecraft to meet the scale of today’s challenges, applied specifically to the context of a possible progressive UK government. In doing this, the paper connects the strategic intent of a missions approach with the practical challenges of UK governance.

Pressures on nature from human activity – such as land use change and pollution, as well as climate change - are increasing the risk of terrestrial ‘ecosystem tipping points’ (ETPs): non-linear, self-amplifying and irreversible changes in ecosystem states that can occur rapidly and on a large scale. The authors of this report argue that financial...