Social science is this year's theme for parks

By Elizabeth Gibney. Universities will this year start to build "social science parks" as a route to improving public services, according to a prediction published by Nesta, the foundation for innovation.
Contributing to an online article, "13 predictions for 2013", Adam Price, Nesta's public innovation lead, Wales, and a former MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, said that just as high-tech science parks are used to commercialise university research, clusters of practice-based research institutes will soon spring up to help public services function better and more cost-effectively. Read more...