Challenge prizes can play a unique and catalytic role in supporting the scaling stage of public-purpose innovation, unlocking social, economic, and environmental value. This innovation includes the green technologies (and other approaches) needed to tackle climate change and its impacts, alongside many other big societal risks that must be addressed at a “whole of system” level. Our new report with …
StateUp is excited to welcome Dr. Saurabh Lall to the team as a new Expert Affiliate, deepening our expertise in public-purpose entrepreneurship and innovation, sustainable finance and impact investing, and entrepreneurship and economic development in emerging economies. An Associate Professor in International Business & Enterprise at the Adam Smith Business School at University of Glasgow, Lall focuses on understanding and …
In an exclusive four-part series for Tech.eu, StateUp expert and University of Cambridge professor Dr. Johannes Lenhard breaks down and explores the growing field of public purpose technology and the inner workings of its ecosystem. Read the first piece in the series, ‘What is public-purpose tech, and why does it matter right now?’ here.
StateUp Advisor Sam Gilbert published a policy brief on crypto, web3, and the metaverse through The Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Sam is also author of FT Business Book of the Month Good Data: An Optimist’s Guide to Our Digital Future and co-founder of fintech unicorn Bought by Many. The policy brief offers policymakers and other decision …
The StateUp 21 Launch Event 2022 brought together investors, policy experts, and StateUp 21 startup founders for inspiring and interactive conversations marking the launch of StateUp 21, the leading international resource for public-purpose tech. Hosted in partnership with King’s Entrepreneurship Lab and Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE), part one of the launch event featured an “Ask-Me-Anything” discussion with …
By Sam Harrison This year, StateUp has been collaborating with the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge and a variety of other industry stakeholders on two major projects: a Vision for the Built Environment—published today—which proposes a new way of understanding and managing the built environment, and a forthcoming guide translating its core ideas into the language of …