From Silos to Systems: Rethinking Urban Governance Тhrough Portfolio Approaches
Following the Istanbul Innovation Days held in March 2025, we are releasing a series of articles capturing key insights, bold ideas and solutions that emerged from the conversations on institutional innovation. From reimagining partnerships to leveraging frontier technologies, these stories showcase opportunities to rethink and transform institutional paradigms. Urban governance is undergoing a quiet revolution. […]
Toward Communion: Institutional Innovation for Bridging the Human-Nature “Dichotomy”
The “dichotomy” between humans and nature was always a fiction. A useful one for some economic accounting – reinforcing a license to extract and plumping up productivity numbers by ignoring essential inputs. A distracting one in other ways – a false sense of insulation from the vagaries of storms, floods, nutrient cycles, and other feedback […]
A Matter of Choice: reflecting on alternative economic models after the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025
by Alberto Cottica. R&D Specialist – Digital, AI and Innovation Hub Spring has arrived for economic alternatives As I stood on the stage of the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025, I experienced a feeling like the beginning of spring, when you throw the windows wide open and let warm air fill the room. The economics winter […]
