Summary
- Since the 1990s, think tanks, the media and NGOs have been under pressure to reform due to funding constraints and technological changes.
- This has led to the emergence of new models, including ‘think nets’, which may be cheaper to run, despite potentially high initial investments.
- Think nets promote open innovation, are more flexible than traditional structures and can adapt more quickly to new policy demands.
- It remains to be seen, however, whether think nets can make inroads into the multidisciplinary policy research world. Web 2.0 can help them do this – or not.