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Nesta (formerly NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is a British foundation, registered as a charity, which supports innovation. Nesta was originally funded by a £250 million endowment from the UK National Lottery. The endowment is managed through a trust, and Nesta uses the interest from the trust to meet its ...
The Longitude Prize is an inducement prize contest offered by Challenge Works, a social enterprise which was historically part of Nesta, a British lottery funded charity, in the spirit of the 18th-century Longitude rewards. [1]
This social enterprise, originating from Nesta (charity), uses IPCs, or 'Challenge Prizes', to catalyse innovative solutions to the world's largest problems. Their work includes the continuation of Longitude rewards , for example, the Longitude Prize on Dementia , which seeks to use Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to ...
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Nesta or NESTA may refer to: Nesta (charity) , an innovation charity in the UK, formerly the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Nesta (gastropod) , a genus of gastropods
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He is a former Chief Executive of the innovation foundation the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). He was founding Chief Executive of the non-profit "action tank" The Portland Trust. Kestenbaum was created a life peer in 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset, and sits on the Labour benches.
On 5 February 2014, BIT's ownership was split equally between the government, the charity Nesta, and the team's employees, [13] with Nesta providing £1.9 million in financing and services. [14] Reportedly this was "the first time the [UK] government has privatised civil servants responsible for policy decisions."