National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts - created from the first ever publicly supported national endowment in the UK
Chair - David Puttnam
CEO - Jeremy Newton
Emily Cummins - Inventor of the solar powered fridge
Kevin Fong - Doctor & science communicator on BBC
Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh - Inventor of Sugru
FutureLab : a global leader in developing digital curriculum materials for schools
Chair - Chris Powell
CEO - Jonathan Kestenbaum
Nesta becomes a major source of original research and influential policy work in the field of innovation
New measures of national innovation performance
Tim Berners Lee, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry, Muhammad Yunus; all take part in Nesta events
It leads experimental practical projects
It is one of the first projects worldwide to use a prize competition to tackle a social issue
CEO - Geoff Mulgan
Chair - John Chisholm
Set up to help local governments develop radical solutions to their biggest challenges
A £10m fund from the Cabinet Office. Supported Goodgym (now in 40 cities) & Crowdfunder
A new focus on evidence & data leads to the creation of The Alliance for Useful Evidence and the Innovation Growth Lab which helps governments make their economies more innovative and entrepreneurial
Nesta becomes an independent charity
Nesta spreads Young Digital Making across the nation
The Next Gen Report uncovered deficiencies in the education system that threatened the future of the UK’s high-tech creative and digital industries
Nesta Impact Investments launches. It goes on to back Oomph, which help hundreds of thousands of older people and vulnerable adults stay healthy
Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund: a £14m fund supporting volunteering & social action alongside public services
The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts: £7m to fund digital experimentation in arts organisations for accessibility
Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre launches The Longitude Prize - a £10m prize to reduce the lethal rise of drug-resistant infections
The first major survey of public attitudes to innovation & innovation policy
Nesta’s flagship event inspires innovators to shape a better future. Speakers include: Edward Snowden, Vivienne Westwood, Brian Eno
Our DIY toolkit has been used by over a million people and translated into dozens of languages
Showcasing 50 radical thinkers changing the UK for the better
The Alt Finance report offers better opportunities for entrepreneurs to get their ideas off the ground
European digital city index EDCi compares how well different cities support digital entrepreneurship
Readie: Launch of new centre championing digital policymaking across Europe
Nesta Italy launches
The Future of Skills 2030 with Pearson uses machine learning to map future employment in a more nuanced way than ever before
Creativity vs Robots is a landmark report showing that creative jobs will be more resistant to automation
ShareLab - exploring how public services, civil society and the private sector can harness collaborative platforms for good
Health Lab - bringing together Nesta’s practical work on health and ageing
Y Lab - the first innovation lab for Wales, set up between Nesta & Cardiff University
A crowdfunding platform for schools that fuels imagination in the classroom by helping students and teachers access the latest technology
A £5 million challenge prize to explore the benefits of opening up banking to small business
Nesta pioneers new types of data analytics to transform how we see the world
Inspiring and harnessing the potential of the UK's home-grown inventors
States of Change launches: a learning platform providing practical guidance and tools to people in and around government
Challenging cities to imagine how drone technology could be used for good
Nesta scans the horizon to find the emerging technologies and radical ideas which will help us tackle the next generation of challenges we face, for example:
Exploring how human and machine intelligence can work together to tackle social challenges
Nesta leads successful consortium of universities to run the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre as part of the AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme
A new unit that consolidates our work in social impact investment in arts and culture