National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. NESTA works across all stages of the innovation process, including:

• learning about how innovation works
• funding new ventures in the areas of engineering, environmental technology, healthcare, and information and communications technology, building and delivering innovation programmes
• disseminating lessons learnt, nationally and internationally.

NESTA’s website provides further information on the different programmes they are involved in and the work carried out by their research and policy and research unit.