We are Life Itself Labs
We innovate systemic solutions to complex problems in support of a global transition.
We innovate systemic solutions to complex problems in support of a global transition.
Life Itself Labs is a think-tank and consultancy specialising in designing economic and governance systems to support social transformation, and delivering strategic insights into complex topics.
Projects
- The Economics of Cooperatives: We explore the economic literature around the problems that face worker and multi-stakeholder cooperatives, and how further research might address them.
- Economics for the Information Age: developing new models for funding and fostering innovation in the age of information.
- Designing Incentive Mechanisms for Environmental Data Sharing: supporting the EU Green Deal Dataspace with innovative mechanisms to fund the creation and sharing of data central to a green transition.
- Unpacking the Implications of Web3 for Local Government: supporting the the US Government Finance Officer's Association to make sense of Web3 and Crypto.
- Making Sense of Web3 and Crypto: developing an in depth resource to help make sense of the complex claims made around web3 and crypto.
Writings
- Papers since 2022 can be found on the research page
- A Marxist, an Economist and a Political Scientist walk into a bar: Lessons from Elinor Ostrom for Cooperative Research - November 2022
- Can new social and digital technologies transform governance? - May 2022
- Incentive mechanisms for environmental data sharing - April 2022
