We scan for emerging trends, promising technologies and interventions to help test encouraging ideas that we can apply to our missions. The Mission Studio. We're building the next generation of mission-led start-ups. Impact Investments. We back innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good. Nesta in a nutshell.

We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society. A guide to getting the most from Nesta’s Competency Framework for Experimenting and Public Problem Solving.

Our expert teams blend different innovation practices to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges. We scan for emerging trends, promising technologies and interventions to help test encouraging ideas that we can apply to our missions. We're building the next generation of mission-led start-ups.

A skills taxonomy provides a consistent way of measuring the demand and supply of skills. It can also help workers and students learn more about the skills that they need, and the value of those skills.

This page contains information on how to install and use Nesta's skills extraction library. The skills library allows you to extract skills phrases from job advertisement texts and maps them onto a skills taxonomy of your choice.

Welcome to the documentation of Nesta's skills extractor library. This page contains information on how to install and use Nesta's skills extraction library. The skills library allows you to extract skills phrases from job advertisement texts and maps them onto a skills taxonomy of your choice.

We launched our Competency Framework in 2017. It identifies the core skills and attitudes that teams of innovators in the public sector combine in order to experiment and adopt innovative approaches to public problems.

The study identifies two new types of occupations (or combinations of skills) which are likely to emerge in the future. The first is an immersive experience designer, who combines creative and tech-based skills. This new occupation is closest to an artist or photographer.

As part of an ambitious study predicting the skills mix required of the workforce in 2030, in late 2016 we held two foresight exercises in the UK and the USA. We brought together a group of leading domain experts, and asked them to reflect on the implications of global structural change in all its forms for the future labour market.

For each occupation the tool provides a Skills Map using millions of UK job adverts. To get started, enter your job title below and then choose the closest occupation group. Which skills are employers asking for?