publications
A collection of reports and papers.
Innovation labs and teams: a practice guide
This practice guide shows what innovation teams and labs do, and provides a practical introduction to establishing and running a new team or lab.
i-teams: The teams and funds making innovation happen in governments around the world
This report tells the stories of 20 teams, units and funds established by governments and charged with making innovation happen. They work across the spectrum of innovation – from focusing on incremental improvements to aiming for radical transformations.
Evaluation of project oracle
The independent evaluation shows that despite being at an early stage of development, Project Oracle is well placed to make a real impact on decision making practice surrounding youth services in London.
what should the what works network do?
This paper recommends five things the What Works centres need to do to ensure they maximise their impact, and avoid the mistakes of past evidence initiatives.
Systems innovation discussion paper
Various perspectives on the potential for systemic innovation to help tackle some of the key challenges the UK currently faces
why we need to create a 'nice for social policy'
This paper outlines why we need to explore a centre – or a network of evidence centres – which help to institutionalise evidence in the decision making process. This led to the UK Government creating the What Works Centres.
Innovations in prevention
This paper introduces the concept of prevention as a method to avoid costly harm, details the current spending on preventative measures, and outlines the stages involved in developing a preventative strategy
ten steps to transform the use of evidence
The 10 things needed to improve the generation and use of evidence, from debunking the myths of RCTs, enabling innovation and evidence to co-exist, through to changing how we deal with failure and negative findings. This report coincided with the launch of the Alliance for Useful Evidence.