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Over the last year, many Middle Eastern think tanks have passed through several crises, challenges and changes. In the COVID-19-era, this change has led to a dead-end for...
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...
2020 has been a difficult year. We have all had to deal with personal and professional challenges. We have all been affected – some more than others – by the pandemic...
The article by Planells-Artigot, Ortigosa-Blanch and Martí-Sánchez provides a bibliometric analysis of studies that mention think tanks over a 35-year period (from 1985...
Evidence generated by researchers sometimes falls on deaf ears with policymakers. This disconnect between research and policymaking has to be addressed. Otherwise,...
I have chosen four new – or relatively new – think tanks to write about. Each has a different business model and offers a different proposal, but they all promise to contribute to...
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...
Como parte de la Semana de la Evidencia 2020, On Think Tanks convoca a 4 nuevos think tanks peruanos para explorar sus modelos, los retos que enfrentaron en su formación y cómo ven el panorama para los think tanks...
. 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,...