Failing successfully: Graham Kennedy, Alexoria on cultural barriers to innovation in the UK
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
emerging markets,
asia
Robert Atkinson, founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Iqbal Quadir, founder of MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, debate where innovation is moving in the 21st century in this week’s Mckinsey ‘Debate zone’.
Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Education
| Tags: innovation,
media,
entrepreneur,
financial,
government,
talent,
university,
car,
india
Neutron Jack is back. Jack Welch, General Electric’s supercharged former CEO, is putting formidable wealth right next to his informative mouth, launching a new online MBA which he claims will compete with bricks and mortar programmes.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: government,
healthcare,
google,
medicine
Each year, hospital errors kill five times as many Americans as AIDS. Scared? There’s more. According to the Institute of Medicine, hospital errors kill more people than car accidents or breast cancer. So, pop quiz. Do you think society in general is more or less trusting of medical institutions?
Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Healthcare
| Tags: health,
john wilden,
global healthcare
“Global Healthcare Futures (GHF) is a UK company that is the brain child of John Wilden, a former specialist and consultant neurosurgeon. GHF is developing and promoting software products for “Time to Cure” and “Cost to Cure” Common Diseases based on the advances of molecular biology and other technologies which will underpin the fast looming world of curative global healthcare, thereby ushering in a new age of diminishing healthcare costs across the developed and developing world”.
Dr Tim Evans, Chairman of Global Health Futures
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: investment,
bonds
Will King, founder of grooming product firm, King of Shaves, is asking his customers to buy £5m in bonds to finance expansion of the brand. It’s a move believed to be the first instance of a company turning directly to its customers to raise investment funds.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
government,
energy,
university,
innovators,
science,
car
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
innovators,
science,
economist,
india
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
financial,
international,
emerging markets,
talent
“We need to reinvent ourselves and invest in innovation to compete in the emerging markets”, writes Gerard Lyons in the Sunday Times 31 May 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneurs,
government,
renewable energy,
energy,
europe,
science
OPEC has delayed 35 of 150 scheduled oil production projects. Oil prices have swirled between $147 a barrel last July, to $32 per barrel in February. China has announced investment of $400bn in solar energy production.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
government,
renewable energy,
national grid,
biogas
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
microtrend,
google,
virul marketing,
twitter
Google admits it has something to learn from Twitter….
Friday, May 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
science,
amazon
“Jeff Bezos is outpacing our expectations,” wrote an analyst of Amazon’s CEO…
His much-viewed appearance on ‘The Daily Show with John Stewart’ was classic Bezos, nerdy, smiley, hyperactive. Struggling, just a little, to convince Stewart we’ll all read from slim digital screens in the future, he rocked back and forwards with laughter, like Spock on a rollercoaster.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation
In the Times today Rob Killick at cScape talks about why we should be encouraging the “spirit of innovation” in the UK today
“...we want post-recession Britain to mean something on the world stage. We do not want to end up as losers in a world of opportunity. And to do that we need politicians who inspire us to achieve things “not because they are easy but because they are hard”.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
jackie hunter,
pharmaceutical
Jackie Hunter is the Senior-Vice President and Head of External Science Development at
Friday, May 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
energy,
healthcare,
science,
pharmaceuticals,
nanotechnology
Defence of our nation’s health persists as a matter of priority. It’s an irrational position to take, for ultimately the nation cannot preserve our health, we all expire, a bit like identity cards. Our expectation, is that one day we won’t shuffle off this mortal coil, but just go for a refit, an upgrade, popping into Me-Me World at lunch to get memory chips expanded and a couple of heart valves replaced.
Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Education,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
university,
europe,
intellectual property,
economist,
patent,
entrepreneurial,
capitalism
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Education
| Tags: government,
intellectual property,
teri willey,
cambridge enterprise,
ip laws
Turning great science concepts into commercial reality.
Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.