✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social's @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article calls for investment, sustained coordination, and continuous learning to strengthen city governments. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/RBqxdH8

✍️ How can city administrations innovate to advance green transitions while strengthening democracy? The latest IIPP Policy Brief by the GreenDEMO project team, led by @rainerkattel.bsky.social, presents a typology of innovative activities used by city governments. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/1Y4zcdZ

✍️ What Makes Cities More Capable? This question was central to the 2026 #CityLab panel on the Public Sector Capabilities Index, featuring IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social, with Mayors Tim Kelly, Regina Bakitte, and Claudio Castro. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/sncG4zX

The People Who Want Power: my reflection on the rise of strongman leaders and what this means for how we educate future leaders open.substack.com/pub/rainerka...

The People Who Want Power

Re-reading Plato's philosopher kings for an age of strongmen

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✍️ The Missing Metric in City Government IIPP Prof. @rainerkattel.bsky.social introduced the first version of the Public Sector Capabilities Index at Bloomberg #CityLab alongside Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Mayors Tim Kelly, Regina Bakitte, and Claudio Castro. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/Xl1yh6Z

✍️ Market-Shaping States The recent working paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social proposes a new theory of public sector capacities and capabilities, reframing the state as capable of shaping futures. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/FAMXuFB

I wrote a short Substack on why violence against women and girls (VAWG) -- a highly prevalent problem globally -- is rarely high up on any government's agenda. I argue that VAWG sits in an accountability black hole created by gender bias: rainerkattel.substack.com/p/the-citize...

The citizen is (still) a man

Why violence against women stays off most governments' agendas

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What does “strategic autonomy” actually mean in practice? I argue it’s a stack: defence, dual-use, digital — and 2026 will judge Europe on whether it can deliver, not announce. End-of-year essay here: rainerkattel.substack.com/p/the-post-n...

The post-neoliberal state is here — now comes the hard part

Reflections on 2025 from an EU vantage point — and what 2026 will test.

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✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could." Catch up on our 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'. 🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/rJfSns1

☮️ Peace as an Economic Strategy What would an economy oriented around a peace mission look like in practice? IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social explore this in their latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/Jv2ZeSc

Since British Prime Minister Keir Starmer clearly cares about peace, he should recognize that it is not just an aspiration but a potential engine of economic transformation, @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social write. bit.ly/4s7Ihbm

Peace as an Economic Strategy

Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel see great potential in public-policy “missions” to address the root causes of conflict and instability.

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🪪 Why don't we have ID cards in the UK? IIPP Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social joined @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room to discuss what a possible ID card system might look like in the UK, and if it would work. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/e3P8Izf

Digital public infrastructure is not new, nor is digital public infrastructure an inherently good public good. State power is state power is state power, and there are few cases where government infrastructure has been universally accessible www.policyready.ca/policymaking...

Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers

By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes:   “Tech critics become...

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✍️ Reframing urban innovation around capabilities, directionality, and the politics of change IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that cities need a new investment logic to steer innovation towards societal wellbeing. 🔗 Read his recent Substack here: buff.ly/eoqweYZ

✍️ Reframing urban innovation around capabilities, directionality, and the politics of change IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that cities need a new investment logic to steer innovation towards societal wellbeing. 🔗 Read his recent Substack here: buff.ly/lHTsVD7

Growth won’t save Starmer. It’s a metric, not a mission. What if the real mission was peace — at home (less division, stronger communities) and abroad (diplomacy, democracy, humanitarian leadership)? Peace gives politics direction. Growth doesn’t. Read on: open.substack.com/pub/rainerka...

Growth Is Not a Mission — But Peace Could Be

Can Starmer save himself, and his government, by rethinking his mission?

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✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article by IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social calls for investment, sustained coordination, & continuous learning to strengthen city governments. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/8Zf9nsE

✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article by IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social calls for investment, sustained coordination, & continuous learning to strengthen city governments. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/a5G9TRi

⏮️ A look back at the launch of the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & @nycfood.bsky.social. 📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/8qHThzr

Once seen mainly as centers of service delivery, cities are now the front lines of modern governance. As demands grow, municipal authorities must be empowered to act decisively in the public interest, argue @iipp-ucl.bsky.social's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social. bit.ly/48sGOoH

Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts

Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain how well-resourced, adaptive municipal governance can protect residents from future shocks.

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✍️ Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social article by IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social calls for investment, sustained coordination, & continuous learning to strengthen city governments. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/5oUiob3

✍️ From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty Catch up on our 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel chaired by Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social & featuring @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @francescabria.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Mike Bracken 🔗 Watch the recording: buff.ly/m44Tj3k

⏮️ A look back at the launch of the Public Sector Capabilities Index (PSCI), featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & @nycfood.bsky.social. 📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZpWlmc4

Oft werden Investitionen in Stadtverwaltungen als weniger wichtig angesehen als solche in Infrastruktur oder Sicherheit Das ist ein Irrtum", schreiben @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social in ihrem lesenswerten Artikel @surplusmagazin.bsky.social www.surplusmagazin.de/demokratie-s...

Für die Demokratie: Städte brauchen dringend Investitionen

In den Städten zeigen sich Kürzungen in der Verwaltung direkt. Sie sind aber auch der Ort, an dem Innovation und Investitionen besonders effektiv wirken können.

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🎤 From Insight to Action Join us for the launch of the new Public Sector Capabilities Index report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anacláudia Rossbach, and Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr. 🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/QWael2j

🚀 Launching our newest report on Public Sector Capabilities Index @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on Oct 3. Cities helped us co-create a tool to show how govts can learn, adapt & deliver in complexity. In person or online, register here 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-insig...

✍️ Getting to “zero bureaucracy” takes a lot of bureaucracy. IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social argues that how we orchestrate bureaucracy matters to deliver fast, fair, and trustworthy services that create public value. 🔗 Read his latest blog here: buff.ly/9MOzxFd

Strong 'planning to plan' vibes here: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer to launch progressive fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right

Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform

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👋🏻 A warm welcome to our new MPA Cohort We are pleased to welcome the latest IIPP MPA Cohort yesterday, with Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social and our core faculty kicking off our introduction week! 🔗 Learn more about our MPA Programme here: buff.ly/nfkcOk7

Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck in old habits — grant-giving, compliance, and rigid oversight — when the world needs institutions that **learn, adapt, and lead**. Full article 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...

Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges

Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.

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