Albert is the founding director of the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), a global partnership based at Nesta that brings together governments, foundations, and researchers to develop and test new approaches to increase innovation, support high-growth entrepreneurship, and accelerate business growth. IGL aims to make innovation and growth policy more experimental and evidence-based, in order to improve the design of the programs and institutions that help to make our economies more innovative and entrepreneurial. Among others, his research has also looked at the drivers of venture capital performance, the linkages between financial institutions and innovative performance, and the effectiveness of innovation policy.