Adtones intelligently tailors mobile ads to users in developing countries and shares the revenue with them to subsidize their phone bills.

Adtones

Boston Consulting Group is a management consulting firm that advises businesses and organizations on strategy, transformation and growth.

Boston  Consulting Group

The BCG Henderson Institute applies insights from academic disciplines to the strategic challenges facing business, government and society.

BCG Henderson Institute

Bit Bio is a human synthetic biology enterprise, which reprograms human cells for use in research, drug discovery and cell therapy.

BitBio

Cancer Research UK supports scientific and medical research to help beat cancer sooner. It is the world's largest cancer research charity.

Cancer Research UK

The Centre for Defence Enterprise funds research that could lead to a capability advantage for the armed forces and national security.

Centre for  Defence Enterprise

The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency makes pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies that benefit national security.

Defence Advanced  Research Projects Agency

The U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency funds research to prepare for and combat weapons of mass destruction and improvised threats. 

Defence Threat  Reduction Agency

The European Innovation Council funds world-class scientists and innovators to develop and accelerate disruptive technology businesses.

European  Innovation Council

Framework Programme 7 was created by the European Commission to fund scientific research and innovation in Europe and associated countries.

Framework Programme 7

The Garfield Weston Foundation supports a range of charities across the UK and the restoration and redevelopment of their buildings.

Garfield Weston  Foundation

Horizon 2020 was created by the European Commission to fund scientific research and innovation across Europe and other member countries.

Horizon 2020

Invenia is a company of scientists and engineers that uses machine learning to optimize complex decision making and reduce inefficiencies.

Invenia Labs

LIMS Ventures is the start-up incubator of the London Institute which accelerates projects with potential for widespread commercialization.

LIMS Ventures

The Medical Research Council, one of the seven UK Research Councils, supports basic and applied medical research throughout the UK.

Medical Research Council

The U.S. Office of Naval Research supports basic research and technology for future naval power and the preservation of national security.

Office of  Naval Research

The Pilgrim Trust supports the preservation of architecturally important buildings and historically significant artifacts and documents.

Pilgrim Trust

The Porter Foundation supports projects in education, the environment, culture, health and welfare that encourage excellence and innovation.

Porter Foundation

The Rose Foundation provides financial assistance to charities undertaking building restoration and development in and around London.

Rose Foundation

The Edward Harvist Trust supports organisations that improve the quality of life for local people in Westminster and other London boroughs.

Edward Harvist Trust

The European Commission Migration and Home Affairs supports research to ensure the security of the EU and cooperation with non-EU countries.

European Commission  Migration and Home Affairs

The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Parallels between the perfect and abundant numbers and their recursive analogs point to deeper structure in the recursive divisor function.

Ample and pristine nos.

Physicists and biologists discuss theoretical models of cell programming and reprogramming, shaped by experimental innovations at Bit Bio.

Reprogramming the cell

Welcome to our new postdoc Ryan Hannam. He’ll be developing theoretical insights into cell programming in our collaboration with BitBio.

Welcome onboard

If the government really wants a rich and diverse ecosystem of scientific research organizations, it should extend core funding to IROs.

From zero to IRO

BitBio has partnered with the London Institute on a moonshot mission to decode cell programming and create every human cell type for use in biomedical research.

Bit Bio-LIMS partnership

Innovation is to technology what evolution is to life: it is how technology improves and adapts to a changing environment. Yet despite advances in our understanding of evolution, what drives innovation has remained elusive. Is the process of innovation essentially Darwinian—variation, selection and inheritance—or are there fundamentally different forces at work? 
In this project we develop a simple mathematical model of innovation in which technologies are made up of components and new components become available over time. In this expanding space of building blocks, we find that innovation has a structure all its own. While the choice of components plays an important role in determining the innovation rate, this is countered by an intrinsic rate specific to each domain. 
Our work helps structure the empirical investigation of innovation in the real world, and highlights the intrinsic versus intervenable aspects of technological change. Speeding up innovation in sectors such as energy production, software development and drug discovery will have far-reaching effects on sustainability, technological progress and the health of society.

Creating a mathematical model of combinatorial innovation to understand how innovation rates can be influenced as components are acquired.

Mathematical structure of innovation

Developing radical new approaches to inference and automated decision making using advances in quantum information and statistical physics.

Fundamental advances in machine learning

Homer’s Iliad and Wikipedia. One, the first great work in Western literature; the other, the world’s most-used work of reference. The link? Both are the products of collective creativity. The Iliad was created over generations by a series of oral poets, each of whom improved on the previous version, deleting some passages and adding others. Meanwhile, Wikipedia relies on contributions from the public, on the same basis of deleting and inserting. Shared knowledge curation efforts and open source software suggest that explicit cooperation may not be necessary for integrating multiple collaborators in their efforts to achieve a complex goal.
In this project we ask whether anonymous collaboration with constrained freedom can give rise to the spontaneous display of creativity within a non-cooperating group, greater than any one person could achieve alone. By studying simple creativity tasks and the dynamics of games, we devise a theoretical model for collective creativity and extrapolate key design principles for platforms capable of achieving it.
Collective creativity could profoundly extend the limits of human creativity in areas such as scientific collaboration, coding, creative writing and illustration.

Understanding collective creativity: anonymous collaboration under constrained freedom that transcends the creativity of the individual.

Dynamics of collective creativity

Examining the effect of public opinion on stock market returns and harnessing social sentiment to make quantitative market predictions.

Markets and the mind

Bootstrap percolation originated as a simple cellular automata model of the spread of infection. Given a set of initially infected sites, in consecutive rounds sites become infected if they satisfy a certain infection rule, for example, more than a given number of their neighbours are infected. Percolation occurs if every node is eventually infected.
In this project we investigate the typical and extremal properties of bootstrap percolation for various infection rules and underlying networks. For sites that are initially randomly infected, we study the critical density of infection that leads to percolation. Alternatively, if the initial infected sites are set by hand, we study how many infected nodes are necessary to infect the whole network.
Bootstrap percolation can be used to model many real-life phenomena, such as pandemics, computer network failure, ferromagnetic behaviour, the spread of voting preferences and information processing in neural networks. A better mathematical theory will help us understand these processes and draw reliable conclusions well beyond what can be achieved through computer simulations.

Advancing the mathematical theory of bootstrap percolation, where active cells on a lattice with few active neighbours cease to be active.

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Dynamics of collective creativity

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