The rise of Innovation in a fifth dimension – is linear modelling dead?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Education,
Technology | Total Views: 2922
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Education,
Technology | Total Views: 2922
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: government,
nuclear,
economist intelligence unit,
geneva motor show,
electric cars | Total Views: 2893
Some years from now, there will be less talk of economic gambling and more on how we played a steady hand in heavy seas. We will talk of how innovation, and investment in electric cars, changed the way we live our lives, how green cars became the catalyst for economic recovery and a beacon of British science and ambition.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
microtrend,
google,
virul marketing,
twitter | Total Views: 2877
Google admits it has something to learn from Twitter….
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: government,
healthcare,
google,
medicine | Total Views: 2874
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?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
emerging markets,
asia | Total Views: 2787
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’.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Education,
Technology | Total Views: 2753
Descartes’ ‘I think; therefore I am,’ will be surpassed by ‘We have; therefore we will’ – our capacity for assessing reality is heading for a quantum leap.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation | Total Views: 2699
Friday, March 13, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
great depression,
economic downturn | Total Views: 2674
Apple. Those crazy guys. They’re about to launch an up-scaled IPod Shuffle, and rumours grow of a new touchscreen device. Recently, they previewed a refreshed desktop range. What’s with all the innovation Steve, there’s a recession on? Maybe a depression. Even with cool little headphones jammed in your ears you can hear the world collapsing, or maybe Apple is too in tune with a different beat.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: investment,
bonds | Total Views: 2656
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.
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: Bloom, Energy, Wired, California, Domestic, Carbon, Market, Patents, Acacia Research, Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Vogue, Stylist, Streaming, Horizonal Innovation, Bill Gates, | Total Views: 2601
This is the market-making story of the month. Bloom Energy unveiled an energy server which can provide 100 kilowatts of power by converting natural gas or other hydrocarbons into electricity, pretty much on demand.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation | Total Views: 2592
Oscar-winning director, Danny Boyle had this advice for the British film industry: “Persist. Keep going. Do all you can do… and keep Film 4 well funded.” As companies trim budgets and stare at slumdog sales charts, Danny Boyle’s advice will pay dividends.
Hard times compel the ambitious, inspire the creative. Will King, creator of the King of Shaves grooming range, launched a global business at home, from a back room, in 1992, when he had just lost his job. Poor thing, all that time on his hands to make a fortune.
Monday, April 06, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Environment | Total Views: 2528
This demo, from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry, was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine ‘Minority Report’ and then some:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
economic recovery | Total Views: 2451
BBC Radio 4’s Peter Day hears from those who are pinning their hopes for economic recovery on innovation.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation | Total Views: 2418
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”.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation | Total Views: 2410
Picasso, pedantic? Not likely. For all the angst of Guernica, the turmoil of a crying woman, Picasso is probably best loved for his child-like sketches. And Dali, didn’t he do well? But you wouldn’t want him at your house for dinner, or careering around Downing Street.
Deconstructing the conventional and building something new, vigorous and bold, requires not just imagination, but a form of mania best enjoyed from a distance. Innovative high achievers are thought to benefit from a particular pressure on the prefrontal cortex. They won’t know it, but their lifestyle will be an indicator. Prodigious work output and the appearance of a consuming passion must draw on a vital inspiration source.
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.