Publications
Reports, analysis and policy recommendations for brave leaders and communities.
This white paper delves into the critical need for transformative capabilities in organizations and leadership to navigate the challenges of the green transition. Drawing on over two decades of experience, we distil key insights to illuminate a path toward a sustainable future.
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Experimentalism is a ‘hidden third option’ that overcomes pre-existing dichotomies and can update the governance of R&I funding while steering it towards societal transformation.
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The policy brief provides a roadmap for the EU to reform its economic policies and leverage digitalisation for a regenerative digital economy, ensuring the just allocation of digital goods and the equitable distribution of their benefits.
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What are the most appropriate institutional arrangements for effective governance? How can governance systems effectively operate across different levels, such as local, regional, national, and supranational? How can governments improve their capacity to evaluate policies, learn from successes and failures, and adapt to changing circumstances? By transforming the civil service, we can answer these questions.
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The government must be able to find novel solutions to the greatest challenges of our time, such as the climate crisis, new security threats, an ageing population, and technological transformations. Directional mission-driven research and innovation policy provides an approach for the government to implement its strategic objectives by solving complex challenges with actors in different sectors.
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In Refugees for co-creative cities, we wanted to re-think the accommodation of refugees in Europe. We challenge the concept of the reception centre by new forms of accommodation, which are co-created by refugees, asylum seekers and locals. Publication WITH shares some examples of workable solutions for inclusive housing and better integration. The project was…
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The report for the Design for Government project published in June 2015 proposed a new, quick-to-implement model for including experiments and behavioural approaches into Finnish policy design. The use of behavioural approaches as part of governmental steering has been shown to make policy more user-orientated, targeted and efficient. The English introduction presented below…
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The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched in the beginning of 2016 and Finland aims to be among the leading countries in its implementation. The Avain2030 project of the Finnish Environment Institute and Demos Helsinki identified the pain points and success stories of sustainable development in Finland based on…
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Avain2030 project examined Finland’s current position and identified its challenges and successes as a part of UN’s global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The study was commissioned by Finnish Government and conducted by Demos Helsinki and Finnish Environment Institute. Finland performs well in international benchmarking on sustainable development, but in…
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Hyperconnected business is a personalized report for companies to be used to design new resource efficient business models based on six identified value creation models that Hyperconnectivity allows and their related development steps. Access the report here! The current global development is increasing interdependency in the economy, with digitalization and the…
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This scenario report examines how hidden resources in people and communities can be better utilized to tackle the toughest challenges of health and healthcare. Ageing population, digitalization, freedom of choice, and prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases are among the main reasons healthcare systems are reformed. Today, the average office worker sits…
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