Friday, April 09, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models,
Business,
Media
| Tags: media,
technology,
government,
business models,
Mark Henshaw,
Finance Bill,
Digital Economy Bill,
Landline tax,
Spotify
“The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the
Monday, January 18, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
government,
google,
Russia,
Japan,
Boris Berezovsky,
Sergey Brin,
Abramovitch,
Dmitry Medvedev,
London Evening Standard,
Putin
Russia is aspiring to be a global force for the innovative and ambitious
“The secret of politics?” said Bismark, “Make a good treaty with Russia.” Otto von Bismark, Prussian Prime Minister, founder and Chancellor of the German Empire, knew how to separate roubles from rubble. Today, more than 100 years after Bismark, the dead dog of communism has awakened as a proud lion. Russia ended 2008 with GDP growth of 5.6%, following 10 straight years of growth averaging seven per cent.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: government,
James Caan,
iawards,
BIS,
innovation awards
Is your organisation British and inventive? Does its innovative products, practices and projects deserve wider recognition? Then the
Monday, July 20, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
government,
renewable energy,
energy,
science,
car,
eco,
desalination,
gas,
bio fuel
When Big Oil claims its going green, seasoned market watchers sigh deeply and trade a few million barrels before lunch. More generous observers will consider Big Oil’s alternative energy ventures part R&D, part PR. But, what if the numbers really do stack up and the technology really can get beyond drilling holes in the ground?
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?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
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.
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
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.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: government,
nuclear,
economist intelligence unit,
geneva motor show,
electric cars
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.
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.