I've written an overview paper on the design of new institutions. It looks at the diversity of existing organisations, from the local to the global, and from the most commercial to public institutions. It proposes a framework for analysing twelve key dimensions of organisational design; and suggests some directions of travel, making the case for thinking in terms of what I call ‘meshes’, ‘multiple centres’ and ‘outside-in’ methods. ‘Meshes’ combine vertical and horizontal

What have we learned from an extraordinary two years when science, politics and government have been inextricably linked? Here I suggest some lessons, drawing on current work on science policy, the projects of the International Public Policy Observatory (which is publishing a series of case studies on science advice in different countries) as well as experience of having been a recipient of science advice in governments. My main argument is that we are seeing a convergence of