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Project brief AIP wishes to explore the concept of Think Tank/Thought Leadership to inform its own strategic change process. The study includes the following...
On Think Tanks (OTT) is the leading global platform dedicated to the study and support of policy research institutes and the broader policymaking environment. OTT provides independent...
There are many histories of think tanks – but I like this origin story of the modern think tank. Sometime in the late 1800s, business leaders, policymakers, experts and the interested...
Project brief To become better informed about its own impact and to be able to communicate that impact to a wider audience, the Alliance commissioned OTT to undertake a...
I was going to let it go this year. But after a quick read I found so many mistakes that it became a challenge not to write this at all. OTT and many others have been critical of the ranking...
Core funding from foreign aid funders for think tanks in developing countries does not seem like a revolutionary idea - but it is. Think about it: a funder provides long term funding for an...
Sarah Lucas, from the Hewlett Foundation, told the audience at the Think Tank Initiative's Exchange in Bangkok that we must talk about and be part of something that is bigger than...
The Think Tank Initiative's Exchange in Bangkok has been a well deserved celebration of the contribution the initiative and its approach to supporting think tanks has made to the sector. It...
Project brief The Open Society Foundations (OSF) and On Think Tanks (OTT) are exploring how they can best support partnerships between think tanks and social/popular movements. To inform...
The 3rd Latin American Evidence Week is over. It involved more than 80 events involving 15 countries and more that 3,000 participants among researchers, policymakers, journalists, activists,...
We know that policy professionals are biased. Every one is, after all. Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri have conducted a study on the biases of policy...
A series of speakers (and authors) at an academic event in June 2017 attempted to address "role of and responses to experts and expertise in the changing political...