Melanie Rayment, director at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (video)
Early on in the pandemic, Melanie Rayment, director at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation talked to Enrique Mendizabal about how to redesign your value...
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Oswaldo Molina, executive director of Red de Estudios Para el Desarrollo (video)
Oswaldo Molina, executive director of REDES talk about how REDES, a new think tank in Perú, is working to bridge the work of research fellows and media partners to...
Setting up a think tank: step by step
Over the years we have been asked for advice on setting up a new think tank by wannabe leaders and supporters. This post outlines some steps (or considerations) based on the advice we have...
Rarely discussed yet critically foundational: Business Model among Indonesian Think Tanks
In the business world, designing and re-examining business models is a must. Indeed, innovation in business models is seen as a way to be leading producers of novel...
The future of think tanks in Africa: Trends to look out for
This is the first of a series of posts on think tanks in Africa -and Kenya in particular. It looks at some trends that may help to understand the future that think tanks...
Gilles Yabi from West Africa Citizen Think Tank
Gilles Yabi, founder of West Africa Citizen Think Talk, talks about his personal and professional motivations for setting up this new think tank. The interview also discusses the main...
The art of creating time: invest, don’t spend
Are some organisations too successful for their own good? How can think tanks take a brake from donor led project funding to develop their own agendas and take the initiative on the projects...
What think tanks do? A view from India
Neeta Krishna, Associate Professor, Father C Rodrigues Institute of Management Studies, writes about the functions and main activities of think tanks. This is the second of a series of three...
Rethinking how research is communicated: two cases from Cameroon
This post was written by Sandrine Ebakisse, a knowledge manager by profession. She carried out this analysis with a research grant from the Communications Division of the...
Insight into factors affecting perceptions of performance in policy communities (Part 2)
In his second post, Philippe Martin outlines some of the key findings of his study of the effect that certain contextual factors have on think tanks' performance. He...
Insight into factors affecting perceptions of performance in policy communities (Part 1)
Philippe Martin has used the Think Tank Initiative's database to test a number of hypothesis about the effect that certain contextual factors have on think tanks'...
For think tanks, big is not always better
Growth has become a way of life for many think tanks. Growth means more income, it means covering more policy issues, more visibility, more influence. But growth can also come with higher...
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