OTT Annual Review 2020-2021: Think tanks and change
How do think tanks react to or foster change? For the OTT Annual Review 2020-2021, 20 authors from around the world reflect on the role of think tanks in times of crises and how they have...
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How do think tanks react to or foster change? For the OTT Annual Review 2020-2021, 20 authors from around the world reflect on the role of think tanks in times of crises and how they have...
The School for Thinktankers is going online! We look forward to welcoming thinktankers and policy entrepreneurs from around the world to our new digital learning platform in February 2021. The 2021 School for...
The Center for Study of Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP) hosts the second edition of CSTEP’s ‘Discussion Series on the Role of Science and Technology in Society’. The two-day...
Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Mercator launched Research and Advice in Foreign and Security Policy: An analysis of the German Think Tank Space, authored by Christoph...
The Open Think Tank Directory was born to overcome the lack of centralised and publicly available information about think tanks and other policy research organisations. But it serves other...
The first think tank state of the sector report, based on analysis of 2019 data of 2,802 active think tanks from the Open Think Tank Directory, provides an overview of the sector and uncovers...
The first online OTT Conference 2020 was held in March/April after the need to postpone our annual face-to-face conference (read about the process). Our second event was...
. The first online OTT Conference 2020 was held in March/April after the need to postpone our annual face-to-face conference (read about the process). Our second event...
The German think tank landscape has become larger and more diverse in recent years. The Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Mercator, both funders of think tanks,...
For the closing session, we decided on a different approach. We invited a set of keynote listeners from different regions to share their insights and thoughts about the keynote and parallel...
This session, organised by INASP, brought together an expert panel, representing a range of sector perspectives, to reflect on some of the key issues outlined in this...
Think tanks do not often consider the ethical implications of their research methods. Douglas Mackay has reflected on the ethics of public policy RCTs. In his presentation, Douglas...