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Albert Bravo-Biosca

EBRD Annual Meeting, 15th May 2015

Why do we need more

experimentation?

Policy Business

Innovation and

entrepreneurship

policy…

… but little

evidence on

what works,

and what

doesn’t

Typically start big…

…without

prior small-

scale testing

Why not trial different designs to learn what works?

What is an experiment? A continuum of definitions…

Trying something new

Trying something new and put in place the

systems to learn

RCTs

• No rigorous learning or evaluation strategy

• No real “testing mindset”

• A “pilot”

• Rigorous formal research design

• Test a hypothesis

• Codifying and sharing resulting knowledge

• Sometimes but not always with some form of control group

• Randomised controlled trials

• Control group created by the programme manager/researcher using a lottery

• Field vs. “lab” experiments

• Different from a natural experiment

1. Experiment

Control

group

2. Evaluate 3. Scale-up

IGL is a new global collaboration led by

Nesta that develops and tests different

approaches to support innovation,

entrepreneurship and growth

Our aims:

1. Improve the evidence base on the effectiveness of interventions

2. Encourage experimentation with new interventions

3. Push forward the knowledge frontier

Our partners

And on-going discussions with several other organisations

IGL Research Network

Some of our projects

Incentivising employees to contribute new ideas

Supporting technology development in emerging economies

Increasing bank lending for intangible-rich SMEs

www.innovationgrowthlab.org

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