Geoff Mulgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 762837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Mulgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulgan |
| SIGNATURE | MULGAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Young Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0907-5132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the influence of research quality on policy citations
Addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires policymakers to utilise high‐quality scholarly research effectively. This study explores the extent to which bibliometric indicators of research quality—field weighted citation index, journal CiteScore, author h‐index and mentions—influence the likelihood of SDG‐related research being cited in policy documents. Analysing metadata from over 16 million SDG‐related articles …
Possibility space
Social science no longer does enough to map out the possibilities for the future, at a time when there is a serious need for more options. There are many reasons for this including the structure of incentives within universities, and the impact of an otherwise healthy focus on evidence and data. This piece describes both how social sciences can better understand the future and their role in helping to shape options, including methods for creativi…
Social Innovation
Can a Post‐Brexit UK Grow a Knowledge‐Based Economy that Works for Everyone
Artificial intelligence and collective intelligence
About Time
"Where does all the time go? Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time - from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves - we don't seem to have any more of it on our hands. We simply fill the space we clear with more things to do - consuming more, spending more - and then look around for new ways of saving time. And so we spiral onwards, upwards, ever faster. Being busy has become a habit, and a habit that gives us …
True Collective Intelligence? A Sketch of a Possible New Field
The art of public strategy
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples’ lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, p…
Après le capitalisme
The Process of Social Innovation
Every truth passes through three stages.First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed.Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur SchopenhauerMuch of what we now take for granted in social life began as radical innovation.A century ago, few believed that ordinary people could be trusted to drive cars at high speed, the idea of a national health service freely available was seen as absurdly utopian, the concept of "kindergarten" …
Problems, Ideas and Leaders
Thinking in Tanks
Leçons du pouvoir
Government, knowledge and the business of policy making
English Governments are becoming increasingly dependent on externally produced knowledge. Their demand for knowledge has been amplified by a relatively non-ideological political climate; by the influence of international organisations sharing practice and assessing policy effectiveness; and by public opinion. Supply has grown in tandem within academia, government bodies themselves and international organisations, all hugely helped by the Web. Thi…
The market place of ideas
The discussion below is an edited version of a Radio 4 Analysis programme, “Thinking Ahead’, broadcast first on 25 May 1995, and introduced by Geoff Mulgan, who has also written a short introduction for this volume. The discussion examines, albeit briefly, many of the themes explored in this issue: are ideas ever ‘original'; why and how are some taken up when others are discarded; what is the role of think tanks and other ‘straddler’ institutions…
The Process of Social Innovation
Every truth passes through three stages.First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed.Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur SchopenhauerMuch of what we now take for granted in social life began as radical innovation.A century ago, few believed that ordinary people could be trusted to drive cars at high speed, the idea of a national health service freely available was seen as absurdly utopian, the concept of "kindergarten" …
Government, knowledge and the business of policy making
English Governments are becoming increasingly dependent on externally produced knowledge. Their demand for knowledge has been amplified by a relatively non-ideological political climate; by the influence of international organisations sharing practice and assessing policy effectiveness; and by public opinion. Supply has grown in tandem within academia, government bodies themselves and international organisations, all hugely helped by the Web. Thi…
Thinking in Tanks
The market place of ideas
The discussion below is an edited version of a Radio 4 Analysis programme, “Thinking Ahead’, broadcast first on 25 May 1995, and introduced by Geoff Mulgan, who has also written a short introduction for this volume. The discussion examines, albeit briefly, many of the themes explored in this issue: are ideas ever ‘original'; why and how are some taken up when others are discarded; what is the role of think tanks and other ‘straddler’ institutions…
The market place of ideas
The discussion below is an edited version of a Radio 4 Analysis programme, “Thinking Ahead’, broadcast first on 25 May 1995, and introduced by Geoff Mulgan, who has also written a short introduction for this volume. The discussion examines, albeit briefly, many of the themes explored in this issue: are ideas ever ‘original'; why and how are some taken up when others are discarded; what is the role of think tanks and other ‘straddler’ institutions…
Government, knowledge and the business of policy making
English Governments are becoming increasingly dependent on externally produced knowledge. Their demand for knowledge has been amplified by a relatively non-ideological political climate; by the influence of international organisations sharing practice and assessing policy effectiveness; and by public opinion. Supply has grown in tandem within academia, government bodies themselves and international organisations, all hugely helped by the Web. Thi…
The Process of Social Innovation
Every truth passes through three stages.First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed.Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur SchopenhauerMuch of what we now take for granted in social life began as radical innovation.A century ago, few believed that ordinary people could be trusted to drive cars at high speed, the idea of a national health service freely available was seen as absurdly utopian, the concept of "kindergarten" …
Problems, Ideas and Leaders
Thinking in Tanks
Leçons du pouvoir
The art of public strategy
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples’ lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, p…
Après le capitalisme
True Collective Intelligence? A Sketch of a Possible New Field
About Time
"Where does all the time go? Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time - from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves - we don't seem to have any more of it on our hands. We simply fill the space we clear with more things to do - consuming more, spending more - and then look around for new ways of saving time. And so we spiral onwards, upwards, ever faster. Being busy has become a habit, and a habit that gives us …
Artificial intelligence and collective intelligence
Social Innovation
Can a Post‐Brexit UK Grow a Knowledge‐Based Economy that Works for Everyone
Possibility space
Social science no longer does enough to map out the possibilities for the future, at a time when there is a serious need for more options. There are many reasons for this including the structure of incentives within universities, and the impact of an otherwise healthy focus on evidence and data. This piece describes both how social sciences can better understand the future and their role in helping to shape options, including methods for creativi…
Assessing the influence of research quality on policy citations
Addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires policymakers to utilise high‐quality scholarly research effectively. This study explores the extent to which bibliometric indicators of research quality—field weighted citation index, journal CiteScore, author h‐index and mentions—influence the likelihood of SDG‐related research being cited in policy documents. Analysing metadata from over 16 million SDG‐related articles …
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