National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)

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.