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Ville Koiste
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Always curious, impact driven and venture-minded innovation, strategy and change management professional.
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”Emerging research out of Harvard Business School and the Digital Data Design Institute shows that AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. They’re becoming digital teammates—an emerging category of talent.”
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Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce
AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. They’re becoming digital teammates—an emerging category of talent. To get the most out of these new teammates, leaders in H...
hbr.org
June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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”To drive outcomes, impact investors are increasingly incorporating impact-linked incentives – that is, mechanisms that financially reward the recipients or managers of capital for achieving impact targets – into impact deals.”
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How to structure impact-linked carried interest and other impact incentives
Explore the concept of impact-linked carry and its role in incentivizing impact targets in innovative investing deals.
impactalpha.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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”Public sector innovation through nested experimental spaces”
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June 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The Future of Innovation Is Collective: ”Only a collective approach to social innovation can solve for challenges that are too large for individual organizations.”

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The Future of Innovation Is Collective (SSIR)
The world is undergoing simultaneous economic, technological, geopolitical, environmental, and social changes that organizations cannot address alone. Only a collective approach to social innovation c...
ssir.org
June 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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"Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead" edition.cnn.com/2025/01/18/a...
Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead | CNN
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medicati...
edition.cnn.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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”results position GenAI as an augmentative tool that can support, rather than replace, human creativity-particularly in tasks benefiting from ideation support.”
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17241
Generative AI and Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used to support a wide range of human tasks, yet empirical evidence on its effect on creativity remains scattered. Can GenAI generate ideas t...
arxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Delivering Government missions using impact-led VC and PE
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The Global City
With world leading financial expertise, the UK is ready to work with you
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May 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Systems Thinking for Impact Investing: Primer, Playbook, and What’s Next
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Systems Thinking for Impact Investing: Primer, Playbook, and What’s Next - Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Shifting Systems Initiative is proud to announce the launch of two new resources for impact investors: The Systems Thinking for Impact Investing Primer and the The S...
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May 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A Systems Change Framework to #ImpactInvesting ssir.org/articles/ent...
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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”Bill Gates says AI may soon shrink the need to work to as little as two days a week.”
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Billionaire Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things’
Say hello to a 5-day weekend, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
fortune.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test: "When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant" arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute conversations s...
arxiv.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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”The Regenerative Futures Fund is a pioneering initiative aimed at tackling the root causes of interconnected challenges of poverty, racism, and the climate emergency in Edinburgh.”
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Regenerative Futures Fund | Funders Collaborative Hub
The Regenerative Futures Fund is a pioneering initiative aimed at tackling the root causes of interconnected challenges of poverty, racism, and the climate emergency in Edinburgh.
www.funderscollaborativehub.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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#Impactinvesting
”Vaikuttavuussijoitukset mahdollistavat säätiörahoituksen kohdistamisen nykyistä paremmin yhteiskunnallisesti tärkeiden ja ajankohtaisten ongelmien ratkaisemisen hyväksi.”
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Säätiöiden vaikuttavuussijoittaminen – sijoitus- ja tukitoiminnan rajapinnassa - Säätiöt ja rahastot
Vaikuttavuussijoittamisen tavoitteena on sekä positiivinen yhteiskunnallinen vaikutus että taloudellinen tuotto.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🤔”In other words, there is a growing disconnect between the research being conducted in HEIs and the practical human capital and innovation needs of local industries.”

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The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system
This article examines the role of Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs) in economic development, focusing on the impact of their research capacities on local economic activity. Globally, HEI...
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March 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🇳🇱How can governments use missions to tackle Health & Care?

Marin Beims and colleagues at Health~Holland explore how the Dutch government initiated and implemented mission-oriented policies for Health & Care in their recent working paper.

✍️Read their paper here: buff.ly/dGrIuty
March 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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”Public procurement is how governments acquire the tools and technologies they need to function. Yet, outdated procurement systems are slow, rigid, and inefficient, making governments less capable of addressing today’s challenges—especially in the AI era.”
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White paper #002: A Well-Architected Framework for public procurement – TIAL
This white paper proposes a Well-Architected Framework for Public Procurement, inspired by software architecture, to make procurement more adaptive, responsive, and purpose-driven.
tial.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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”Anchoring of missions to place requires the active framing, translation and re-framing of global challenges into locally relevant goals, strategies and actions, and building legitimacy through place-based leadership”

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Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy
The last two decades have seen a rise of mission-oriented innovation policy with greater focus on sustainability challenges and problems as drivers fo…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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”the number of inventors in the U.S. would be four times higher if women, minorities, and children from low-income families (bottom 80%) innovated at the same rate as white men from high-income families (top 20%).”

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The next innovation revolution should be democratisation
Innovators are most likely to be men from privileged backgrounds. Xavier Jaravel argues that democratisation and widening of access to innovative careers worldwide is key to boosting long-term grow…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"There aren’t a lot of people who are stupid, but there are a lot of people who are incurious...Lund thinks #AI could threaten our curiosity by giving us easier, ready-made answers (he calls it an 'incuriosity engine')." blog.medium.com/stupidity-is...
Stupidity is usually just incuriosity
Leaving the company you founded + writing about your obsessions (Issue #277)
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February 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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”Social innovation—a field fundamentally about breaking down silos, finding common ground, and building bridges—can be an antidote to the forces that are sowing distrust and discord among us, injecting new life into the public sphere”
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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change (SSIR)
Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
ssir.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Data Is the Key to Building AI for Social Good:”The most useful data to AI for the social impact sector will be the data that is pooled, in order to ensure the data is big enough, updated enough & accurate enough to be up to the task of solving humanity’s biggest problems” ssir.org/articles/ent...
Gather, Share, Build (SSIR)
Why data is one of the biggest challenges to leveraging AI for social good—and how the social sector can address it
ssir.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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”The Good Investors experiment:
Creating an investment methodology for systems change”

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Deep Transitions Lab
www.transformativeinvestment.net
February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Cutting Costs Alone Won’t Make Government More Efficient time.com/7213149/cutt...
Cutting Costs Alone Won’t Make Government More Efficient
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should look beyond cuts to drive real government efficiency.
time.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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”Both organisms and organizations require a balance between short-term crisis management and long-term growth”
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Balancing Immediate Survival with Long-Term Growth
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February 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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”The UK government has created an advisory group of stakeholders in the impact investment sector to help develop new social impact vehicles.” #impactinvesting
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UK launches advisory group to develop social impact strategies | Impact Investor
Investors and experts have been asked to devise new mechanisms for social impact funding.
impact-investor.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM