The Daily Pennsylvanian's article on the Philadelphia Behavioral Sciences Iniative includes quotes from an interveiw with PPE's associate director, Doug Paletta: 

"One of the goals of Penn is to have an impact in the greater Philadelphia area and GovLabPHL and the PBSI are clear ways of partnering interested and engaged academics with interested and engaged city officials, and I just think the more of that the better. I think it tends to make for better research and tends to make for better policy when everything goes well."

https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/11/mayor-kenney-philadelphia-upenn-be...