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Public Policy

Public Policy

Enabling non-partisan organisations to provide evidence-based research and advice to policymakers

Our mission is to support policy research in the UK that brings about positive tangible change for society, and leads to improved economic performance.

Institute for Government building

Our motivation

The organisations and institutions that we support aim to conduct quality research and assemble robust evidence bases, with a particular focus of looking beyond the UK to gather lessons from alternative models.

All are driven by the need to build a consensus. Their success is not based on media coverage or plaudits, but on the basis of their recommendations being implemented and resulting in better performance.

Our work in policy

  • Supporting policy research

    Providing insights that support policy making in science, technology, innovation, and manufacturing

  • Improving economic performance

    Translating new science and engineering ideas into technologies, industries, and economic wealth

  • Enabling practical results

    Disseminating the research and turning the insights into practical recommendations

The Institute for Government is based on the firm belief that pragmatic, non-partisan institutions can make a real and positive contribution to improving the quality of policy-making in various different areas.

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Gatsby is a foundation set up by David Sainsbury to realise his charitable objectives.

We work across a number of other sectors across the globe.