There are many ways to help bring good ideas to life. Nesta works to uncover, develop and test, new ways of supporting innovation from across sectors and around the world. These techniques, tools and processes are collectively known as innovation methods.
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
Acronym:
NESTA
Type of Organization:
Innovation Foundation
Website:
Country:
United Kingdom
Nesta is an innovation charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life.
Nesta currently operates in the following areas:
Economic growth: Nesta's Policy and Research team publish regular research papers on how innovation can boost economic growth;
Investment: The charity runs an impact investment fund - Nesta Investment Management, which invests in social ventures with innovative products or services;
Public services: Nesta runs practical programmes to find innovative ways of delivering cheaper, more efficient public services, and demonstrating how these can scaled up across the UK;
Creative industries: Nesta also specialises in original research into the UK's creative industries, and runs practical programmes to help the sector.
Areas of activity:
innovation
Focus of Capacity Development:
Organizational
Institutional