❗️Closing tomorrow - Last chance to apply! IIPP is hiring a Programme Manager to lead its Strategic Economics Alliance, working to push the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplify the voices of women economists in the Global South. Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/vTTyrzw

🇧🇷 Carnival Economics: Dispatches from Rio, Brasília, & Salvador IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's latest Substack post reflects on her recent trip to Brazil, launching a new partnership on the Public Value of Arts & Culture with Brazil's Ministry of Culture. ✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/1TVZXlC

⏮️ Catch up on our recent PhD In Conversation event featuring @naikalema.bsky.social in conversation with academics on 'Decolonising Global Digital Transformation', drawing on her research on the World Bank Group’s Global Digital Transformation initiative 📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/qVnLbPu

❌ Does #AI development unlock wealth? IIPP Associate Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke on 'BBC Radio 4 Today', pushing back on the narrative that #AI development will automatically boost growth and productivity. 🎧 Listen here (starts from minute 54): buff.ly/TpJBuk9

✍️ Reflections from the 2025 State of DPI Report Launch IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social reflects on the key questions that emerged at the launch of the 2025 State of DPI Report, offering an insight into what the DPI community is grappling with right now. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/ynGNwzJ

🆕 The Authoritarian Stack IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social's latest research project maps the "Authoritarian Stack"— a network of tech firms, funds, & political actors turning core state functions into private platforms. 🔗 Learn more about the project here: buff.ly/pCca3yp

✍️ The UK is squandering its #AI talent IIPP Professor Mike Bracken wrote about the current state of UK #AI policy, urging policymakers to define the AI market they want, rather than being shaped by global tech forces. 🔗 Read his @financialtimes.com article here: buff.ly/KxPmnhs

❗️Join the Strategic Economics Alliance team at IIPP! We’re hiring a Programme Manager to lead @iipp-sea.bsky.social's work on pushing the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplifying the voices of women economists in the Global South. Apply here by March 1st ➡️ buff.ly/vTTyrzw

Great to give a guest lecture on industrial policy and workplace democracy under different models of capitalism at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social yesterday. As always, the students were the stars, with their penetrating questions and brilliant observations!

🆕 The green industrial revolution is coming The recent @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Research Fellow Anna Hope Emerson outlines how a mission-oriented industrial strategy can generate both clean power and good jobs. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/3jFM1yd

🔄 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/zOlzvJm

🆕 Market-Shaping States The latest working paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social proposes a new theory of public sector capacities and capabilities, reframing the state as capable of shaping futures. ✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/olOcFlX

✍️ Creating an index is political IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick outlines the key political choices involved in creating the Public Sector Capabilities Index, and why this matters for its implementation by city leaders. 🔗 Read her latest blog here: buff.ly/IwTgeQK

📣 Join the Public Sector Capabilities Index team at UCL IIPP We're growing the team and are looking for: 🔹 Senior Data Product Manager 🔹 Service Designer 🔹 Stakeholder Engagement Manager 🔗 Learn more & apply here by March 2nd: buff.ly/fF9Xi4P @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

✍️ "We must confront the ways in which governance infrastructures replicate colonial logics." Catch up on our recent @IIPP_UCL #RethinkingTheState Forum panel on decolonising public administration, chaired by PhD Candidate Nai Lee Kalema. 🔗 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/9fQTpmY

✍️ The politics behind fuel subsidy reform IIPP Head of Teaching Prof. Kate Roll co-wrote an article examining Indonesia’s fuel subsidy reforms, showing how competing narratives, media discourse, and political contestation shape policy outcomes. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/tYOa5QL

💉 Lessons from the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @tomstratton.bsky.social, & Sion Williams-Elyesil investigate the role of conditionalities in industrial strategy, drawing on the development of the Vaxzevria vaccine. 🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/nxQDIAJ

🚀 Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words. IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Sarah Doyle & Luca Kühn von Burgsdorff outline how to design, implement, and govern missions, and how governments can deliver transformative change. 🔗 Read the report here: buff.ly/ZT9FYmZ

5 days left to apply! The UCL IIPP Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA) is hiring a Programme Manager to advance our work on industrial strategy, green finance, and new development theories with our partners around the world.

✍️ The mainstream low-carbon policy regime is failing Today's event focuses on the need to reframe Net Zero, with IIPP Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social outlining a strategy for a new ‘low carbon social contract’. 🔗 More on IIPPs research here: buff.ly/vZ2aHcO

📍Starting in 15 minutes Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Prof. @jryancollins.bsky.social & @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract. 🔗Join us online: buff.ly/3XmRyFq

✍️ The tragedy of the ‘measure to manage’ green financial policy paradigm. IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social explores the failure of the 'measure risk to manage risk' paradigm, and outlines an alternative path forward through allocative green credit policies. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/pIWSLCL

❗️Happening today Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social and @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract. 🔗 Join us online: buff.ly/3XmRyFq

❗️We need new ideas, institutions, and policies to avoid climate breakdown IIPP works closely with governments all over the world to rethink innovation and take on a market-shaping approach to the climate crisis and the green transition. 🔗 Learn more about our work here: buff.ly/vZ2aHcO

🇨🇴 Balancing Growth and Sustainability IIPP MPA Student Camila Idrovo explores Colombia’s AI-driven data centre boom and the sustainability challenge of ensuring inclusive growth while safeguarding water and energy resources. ✍️ Read her blog here: buff.ly/YU0wj8Q

❗️Happening tomorrow - Net Zero in Peril? Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/FtUw7i0

🆕 A New Era for City Governments Across the world, cities are where the future happens first. IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick reflects on the launch of the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI) in October 2025, recapping key discussion points. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/l45aEJH

📍What does a mission-oriented approach look like in #LocalGovernment? Diana Rodríguez Franco spoke to IIPP Visiting Professor @cityofsound.bsky.social on how Bogotá transformed its care system as part of the Council on Urban Initiatives project 📺 Watch the video here: buff.ly/HI69ICo

✍️ (Re)imagining Mission Neighbourhoods IIPP MPA alum Jack Strachan's thesis explores the emerging practices of mission-oriented neighbourhoods in shaping, adapting & transforming place, identifying four dimensions of practice. 🔗 Read the latest addition to the MPA #ThesisSeries: buff.ly/LDyBpUq

🇷🇼 How can governments turn systems approaches into day-to-day practice? In November, IIPP and the UN @fao.org delivered a two-day Applied Learning programme with Rwandan public officials to strengthen capacity for agrifood systems transformation. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/daaVhDj

❗️Join the Strategic Economics Alliance team at IIPP! We’re hiring a Programme Manager to lead @iipp-sea.bsky.social's work on pushing the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplifying the voices of women economists in the Global South. Apply here by March 1st ➡️ buff.ly/AeerB7A

🆕 The green industrial revolution is coming The recent @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Research Fellow Anna Hope Emerson outlines how a mission-oriented industrial strategy can generate both clean power and good jobs. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/3jFM1yd

💭 What would founding a university look like now? As @ucl.ac.uk celebrates its bicentennial anniversary, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social asks what we might build if we were to found a university today and equip it for 21st-Century challenges. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/oxyIpfG

Just back from Rio, Brasília & Salvador launching @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Carnival Economics project w Brazil's Ministry of Culture. Carnival isn’t a one-off event—it’s a year-round production economy. A case study on how culture, identity & joy sit at the centre of what a creative economy should be.

✍️ Making Industrial Strategy Great Again Industrial policy will fail unless it is organized around clear missions. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's recent @foreignaffairs.com article critiques the Trump administration's approach to industrial strategy. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/zzWA0lW

❌ Does #AI development unlock wealth? IIPP Associate Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke on 'BBC Radio 4 Today', pushing back on the narrative that #AI development will automatically boost growth and productivity. 🎧 Listen here (starts from minute 54): buff.ly/TpJBuk9

🎤 Net Zero in Peril? Join us on Feb 24 for a new installment of the #IIPPInConversation series, featuring Honorary Senior Research Fellow @drdonalbrown.bsky.social in conversation with IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social on a new low-carbon social contract. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/s4O1pKv

🏦 Using central bank tools to guard against ecosystem collapse Drawing on her work at IIPP, Research Fellow Lydia Marsden outlines how central banks can use available tools to target financial flows contributing to systemic nature-related risks. Read her @greencb.bsky.social blog: buff.ly/hBXL2ej

🌱 Macrofinancial policy for a green and just transition Since 2018, IIPP Professor @jryancollins.bsky.social, Katie Kedward, & Lydia Marsden have been conducting research on the macroeconomics & political economy of environmental degradation and the green transition. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/HHg4Cz6

💻 #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/6E9A7i3

⏮️ On the Brink: A conversation with @unctad.bsky.social Secretary General @rebecagrynspan.bsky.social & IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social Catch up on the official launch of the 2025 UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Report, held at IIPP. 📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/s9u6xoi

📣 Join the Public Sector Capabilities Index team at UCL IIPP We're growing the team and are looking for: 🔹 Senior Data Product Manager 🔹 Service Designer 🔹 Stakeholder Engagement Manager 🔗 Learn more & apply here by March 2nd: buff.ly/ELTcVi5 @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

⚠️ The Real Housing Crisis IIPP Visiting Professor of Practice @cityofsound.bsky.social argues against the prevailing "build, baby, build" narrative in current housing policy in his recent essay for the @designmuseum.bsky.social's Future Observatory Journal. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/zfriIhQ

✍️ Creating an index is political IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick outlines the key political choices involved in creating the Public Sector Capabilities Index, and why this matters for its implementation by city leaders. 🔗 Read her latest blog here: buff.ly/IwTgeQK

✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social's @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article calls for investment, sustained coordination, and continuous learning to strengthen city governments. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/rKxYVEe

🚀 Building the R&I Agency of the Future IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social recently joined the Insider podcast, hosted by Ricardo Migueis, to discuss how to rebuild public-sector capacity for modern innovation systems. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/vky0xZE

❗️Join the Strategic Economics Alliance team at IIPP! We’re hiring a Programme Manager to lead @iipp-sea.bsky.social's work on pushing the boundaries of new economic thinking & amplifying the voices of women economists in the Global South. Apply here by March 1st ➡️ buff.ly/AeerB7A

🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest. 📺 Watch here: buff.ly/IoE1RTn

🎤 We need to speak about digital ecosystems, not markets IIPP Head of Research Dr. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social recently spoke with Oles Andriychuk about reshaping global digital ecosystems, competition, ownership, knowledge extraction, and more. 📺 Watch their discussion here: buff.ly/MRLj08y

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/HRCM8Yt