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The findings are revealed in NESTA’s Innovation Index – the most ambitious attempt yet to measure the contribution of innovation to the UK’s economic growth. - NESTA

We Brits are now going to deepen our knowledge of how IP works within the economy and make up for the fact that we have little hard evidence as to precisely how IP affects its owners, users and the various markets in which it is engaged or exploited. Since this is a very big task, the responsible approach is for SABIP and the IPO to cooperate with other bodies in the funding, setting up and carrying out a research agenda that will establish at least a firm framework within which policy may be framed. NESTA and the ESRC were mentioned in this context, as well as the OECD. - NESTA

Two thirds of private sector productivity growth in the UK between 2000 and 2007 was driven by innovation, according to a new Innovation Index compiled NESTA. - NESTA

Economic growth has been heavily influenced by innovation in recent years, a new report from NESTA claims. - NESTA

A new report by NESTA has found a clear link between business performance and investment in innovation. - NESTA

Two thirds of private sector productivity growth between 2000 and 2007 was driven by innovation, claims a new report by NESTA. - NESTA

If intangible investments including spending on software, design, brands and workforce skills were counted along with R&D in business output, they would make up 14% of it, according to a report from NESTA. - NESTA

Innovation from the Cambridge tech cluster and other hotspots are saving the UK economy from disaster, research by NESTA. - NESTA

The UK’s economic success will depend upon its ability to commercialise and profit from research and ideas and to innovate in the service sector and creative, according to research buy NESTA. - NESTA

Innovation drives two-thirds of the UK's private sector productivity, according to a new report from NESTA. - NESTA

The results of the UK’s very first Twitter awards have been announced this evening in London. NESTA won the Business to Business category while other winners included Duncan Bannatyne of Dragon’s Den and Aleksandr the Meerkat from comparethemarket.com. - NESTA

Virgin Atlantic has launched a global initiative aimed to help passengers find others travelling in the same direction to share taxis at arrival. As part of its VJAM programme, which is an open innovation initiative with NESTA, the Taxi² website (www.taxi.to), will match passengers, who are on the same flight or arrive at a similar time, so they can meet for a journey to a similar direction. - NESTA

In this seven-minute interview, Robert Bain speaks to Harwood about the growth of open innovation, and what companies can do to bring their suppliers and customers into the innovation process. - NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) will unveil its first Innovation Index today. The study, designed to measure creativity in the economy, will reveal that innovation by British businesses is driving productivity growth faster in the UK than in other large European states. - NESTA

Stephen Fry was speaking at last Thursday's NESTA event entitled 'Social Media: A Source of Good?'. - NESTA

Just 7.5 per cent of the UK’s creative businesses1 hold the key to employment and economic growth in the sector, according to new research released today by NESTA in conjunction with Aston University and the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. - NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) will unveil its first Innovation Index today. - NESTA

A new study – conducted on the behalf of NESTA – has found that only 7.5 per cent of creative UK firms are experiencing ‘high-growth’. - NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) unveils its first Innovation Index today. This assesses the economic impact beyond research and development to include product design, training in new skills, organisational change, developing new brands and copyright. - NESTA

The government has charged NESTA with the development of a simplified IP rights framework for publicly procured digital media. - NESTA

Just 7.5 per cent of the UK’s creative businesses1 hold the key to employment and economic growth in the sector, according to new research released today by NESTA. - NESTA