Innovation Blog

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, patent, patents, NHS, teamwork, solar power

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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Nick Robertson, CEO ASOS plc: From recession to recovery through innovation

Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, recession, awards, National Business Awards, ASOS, Nick Robertson, online, Mid-Cap Business of the year, Retail

Find out what Nick Robertson, CEO of ASOS plc, winner of Grant Thornton’s Mid-Cap Business of the Year Award, thinks about the UK’s ability to recover from recession and how innovation will help us ‘work our way out of this recession’. Filmed interview courtesy of The National Business Awards.

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