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
Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
economic recovery
BBC Radio 4’s Peter Day hears from those who are pinning their hopes for economic recovery on innovation.
Thursday, April 02, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
regulation,
financial innovation,
the ascent of money,
niall ferguson,
turner review,
derivatives,
alastair darling,
louisiana purchase
Niall Ferguson, Scotland’s finest export since steel, recently wrote that the development of credit and debt is: “as important as any technological innovation in the rise of civilization, from ancient Babylon to present-day Hong Kong.” Glasgow born Ferguson, a financial historian and Harvard professor, has delighted television audiences with his pithy presentation of The Ascent of Money. Despite all the monumental fiscal calamities he details, a recurring message is “We never really learn”.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
“Are we really hiring the irritants? Because it’s the irritants that are the risk takers, and it’s the risk takers that contribute to the culture of innovation.” Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO,
Friday, March 20, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
| Tags: innovation,
desalination,
open innovation,
nuclear fusion,
professor john beddington,
jet,
manhattan project
Kennedy began the US space race. Obama is going to cure cancer. And the United Kingdom, is, er, um, going to – make the trains run on time, maybe. Personally, that seems a little too mission impossible for my kind of optimism. How about? “This generation of Britons will harness controlled nuclear fusion for civilian use.”
Friday, March 13, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
great depression,
economic downturn
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.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
Don Elgie, Chief Executive Officer of Creston PLC gives his view on promoting innovation in the UK, what the obstacles are and how the economic downturn will affect the UK's position on the world stage.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
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.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation
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.