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Open innovation, the linear model of innovation, and risk avoidance Kitchen interview on how companies abdicate responsibility for innovation Innovation: what is it and who spends money on it? Kitchen interview on the basics of new products and services, R&D, state intervention and the role of basic scientific research Innovation: the picture in energy and in pharmaceuticals Kitchen interview on the barriers – both real and assumed – to progress in the two sectors The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for? In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing A very conservative approach to innovation The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future Let’s go back to the Moon – and beyond As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration Risk-taking, R&D and the recession The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind A top sociologist has kind words for what is in fact a searing polemic Climate change will be a central part of government agendas in 2009 - and a rich source of diplomatic squabbles, too Instead of a dispassionate approach, the BBC gives us dumbed-down moral absolutes, far-out footage, and a sprinkling of "balance" Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change Environmentalists are cagey about techno-fixes to climate change because berating mankind for its impact on nature is their raison d'être How the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fairly sober summary of climate science has been spun to tell a story of Fate, Doom and human folly. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky How IT will cook up a feast for the eyes Trends in computing mean developers will soon have to add visual literacy to their skills The legacies of a high-tech holocaust Two decades have confirmed that tech guru James Bellini's alarmism about chemical toxicity was always misplaced |
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