This publication shares 10 lessons on how to create innovative change in local government from the Creative Councils programme. Key findings New approaches are needed for costly social challenges posed by long–term youth unemployment and vulnerable families often living in places that feel as if they have been going backwards for decades. To create the...

Introduction: Funded by the Cabinet Office, the Innovation in Giving Fund supports innovations that aim to get many more people involved in giving time, money, skills and resources to the causes they care about. Nesta set out to find and support the most exciting innovators; to help them bring their ideas to life; and to...

The UK's creative economy is one of its great national strengths, historically deeply rooted and accounting for around one-tenth of the whole economy. It provides jobs for 2.5 million people – more than in financial services, advanced manufacturing or construction – and in recent years, this creative workforce has grown four times faster than the...

In March 2012, Nesta published Here and now, the first landscape review of hyperlocal media in the UK. Since then, they have continued our programme of practical experimentation and research, called Destination Local, to develop a strong evidence base. One area of research which Nesta believes is of critical importance to stakeholders concerns the demand...

Dynamic Mapping of the UK’s Creative Industries (125), by Hasan Bakhshi, Peter Higgs and Alan Freeman of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), adopts a definition of creative occupation as ones with “a role within the creative process that brings cognitive skills to bear to bring about differentiation to yield...