Innovation Blog

Nathan Myhrvold’s opens the gates to ‘Invention Capital’

Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Environment, Technology | Tags: technology, innovators, Bill Gates, economist, eco, nuclear, travelling-wave reactor, Nathan Myhrvold, TerraPower

The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.

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Electric transport - The third industrial revolution

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.

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