I've written an overview paper on the design of new institutions - prompted by growing interest in the need for a new generation of institutions to handle the big transitions of the next few decades. The paper makes the case for ideas that can feed a broader new discipline focused on the design of organisations and institutions. It argues that we need a discipline that – like buildings architecture - brings together theory, practice, interdisciplinarity and critical though

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