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Solar-powered bras, slump-time inventions and a 2010 events calendar – innovation roundup

Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business, Environment, Healthcare, Technology | Tags: innovation, links, recession, patents, patent, teamwork, NHS, solar power

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Ingenious solar-powered designs, successful products from recessions past, radical innovation in the NHS, innovation events around the UK, and more – the Grant Thornton Innovation team aims to bring you the most popular business stories and useful links each month. Here’s what we’ve been reading…

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Get me a dealmaker – One part innovator, one part salesman. Shaken and stirred.

Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Education, Technology | Tags: innovation, financial, technology, research, university, europe, intellectual property, economist, patent, entrepreneurial, capitalism

Seventy years ago, Schumpeter, economist and entrepreneurial cheerleader, declared the pending death of capitalism and the rise of sober socialism – the consequence, he said, of the innovation equivalent of corporate perpetual motion.

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