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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 34m

✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions

@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.

🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 14h

🎤 As the panel discussion comes to an end, we welcome questions and input from the audience about the book and the lessons that can be drawn from it.
Thank you for joining us for this #IIPPInConversation event!

🔗 Discover our upcoming events here: buff.ly/oMyK1Rx

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 15h

💭 The authors reflect on their journey of writing the book, coming together to collaborate and highlight alternative economic frameworks and methodologies outside of Eurocentric economic paradigms and rethinking global systems through a decolonising economics lens.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 16h

🎤 We kick off today's event with a brief summary of the book and an introduction to the authors and today's panellists:
- @cacrisalves.bsky.social, IIPP Associate Professor
- @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @soasuni.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
- @ingridhk.bsky.social, Kings College Senior Lecturer

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 16h

📖 @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, & @ingridhk.bsky.social's new book seeks to expose the Eurocentrism embedded in the economics discipline and show how Eurocentric foundations shape how economists study the world today.

Buy the book: buff.ly/Ria540g

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 16h

📍Starting in 15 minutes!

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor
@cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

📺 Join us online if you can't join in person: buff.ly/J9LqdU6

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 20h

✍️ "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/OsSiFtm

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 22h

📍Happening today - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

🌎 A Global New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation

IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social) hosted a series of powerful workshops at the 2025 IIPP Forum, discussing key challenges and opportunities for a Global New Economy movement.

➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/dcNQUzj

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

📣 We’re hiring - Join the team!

Join IIPP as a Temporary Executive Assistant and support Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social across her global policy and academic work.
📍London (Hybrid) | ⏳ Until 30 November 2025 |❗️Applications close 12 October

🔗 Apply here: buff.ly/6LPNfub

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

📈 Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) can maximise public value creation but must be properly created, governed, and regulated.

🔗 Read the paper by IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @eaves.ca, and Beatriz Vasconcellos on this discussion here: buff.ly/GlUyzRi

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

🌍 The world faces an unprecedented water crisis

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social highlights the historic opportunity for South Africa, as it assumes the G20 presidency, to champion a new economics of water, valuing the hydrological cycle as a global common good.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/ed5EgbS

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

🏠 A foundation for future housing strategy

'Taking Stock', a paper led by IIPP's @stefanhorn.bsky.social & @bethstratford.bsky.social, outlines the foundational analysis and key frameworks of the Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth (#HDCE) project.

✍️ Read the paper here: buff.ly/y1titRJ

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 2d

📚 Starting the new academic year

We were pleased to welcome the latest IIPP #MPA cohort last week, and wish them all the best as classes and seminars kicked off this week.

🔗 Learn more about the MPA programme here: buff.ly/WrRbKUN

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 2d

🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”

IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.

✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/SzWevBN

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Leading economists call for the protection of Public Interest Media

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Prof. @francescabria.bsky.social joined the call by leading economists to protect public interest media for economic prosperity and human progress.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/E8wXvko

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 3d

📣 We’re hiring - Join the team!

Join IIPP as a Temporary Executive Assistant and support Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social across her global policy and academic work.
📍London (Hybrid) | ⏳ Until 30 November 2025 |❗️Applications close 12 October

🔗 Apply here: buff.ly/6LPNfub

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 3d

🎤 Directing Economic Growth: A Common Good Approach

On October 6, IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social will deliver @christianaiduk.bsky.social’s Annual Lecture, exploring how a new economics of the common good can aid governments in addressing global issues.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/Smnx1YI

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

✍️ Coordination and Power

The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

🎤As today's event concludes, we now open the floor to questions from the audience. Thank you for joining us today!

🔗Learn more about the Public Sector Capabilities Index here, including past publications, media, and the latest report launched today: buff.ly/S5ndykR

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

🎤 We now welcome Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & Katie MacKenzie (@nycfood.bsky.social) into the conversation.

Together, the panel discusses:
1️⃣ What cities need to build capabilities
2️⃣ How to strengthen city capabilities
3️⃣ and how to embed capability-building as a global norm.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social presents an overview of the new report, highlighting the key findings and outlining next steps and scalability.

🔗 Read the new report here: buff.ly/2kqNQXy

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

🎤 IIPP Director and Principal Investigator @mazzucatom.bsky.social
& @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social
Lead on the Government Innovation Programme, James Anderson reflects on the journey so far, and what the Public Sector Capabilities Index can deliver for cities' growth & transformation.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

🤝 This report has been the result of 2 years of collaboration between IIPP and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social.

IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social kicks off today's event, marking a celebration of the work we have achieved so far, and looking ahead at the next phase of this project.

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