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Move fast and fix things: How to be a public entrepreneur

This report describes the findings from a six-month inquiry where we applied the RSA’s model of change “think like a system, act like an entrepreneur” to the challenges of procuring and scaling innovation through government.
24 Jul 2018
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Addressing economic insecurity

Economic insecurity is a political, economic and societal challenge that public policy must understand and address.
11 Jan 2018
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From design thinking to systems change: how to invest in innovation for social impact

Design methods have reached far beyond the traditional confines of product creation, and are now deployed to create new services, policies, business models, governance structures and more. This disruptiveness has reinvented how these sectors approach innovation – ushering in an embrace of multiple possible solutions, creative responses and human centred processes.
25 Jul 2017
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The Great Recovery Report

The Great Recovery project, launched in September 2012 by the Action and Research Centre at the RSA, aims to build a cross disciplinary design community that is equipped to support the development of an economy based on resource-efficient principles.
31 May 2013
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