18 April 2010 | Interview with Grant Thornton

The defects of business models

New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation

29 June 2009 | spiked

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

June 2009 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

Paying in cash: more than the strange pastime of a few

Contactless debit cards, the decline of cheques and the rise, in Korea, of payments made by mobile phones: all raise the spectre of a cashless Britain. But that will never happen 164kB

15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

27 May 2009 | spiked

An R&D recession

Today’s economic crisis springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development

17 August 2008 | Design magazine, July 1982

Interim report

Interview with the late Herman Kahn, the man who pretty much invented forecasting

15 July 2008 | Forecasts proved right

Freddie Mac – when are you coming back?

What my book Why is construction so backward?, written with Ian Abley, said four years ago about today's financial crisis in the US

14 July 2008 | Times Online

Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West

The West's pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives

1 January 2008 | The Register

The Electric Car Conspiracy... that never was

What a hit movie really tells us about innovation

28 September 2007 | The Listener, 15 October 1987

Toward the global concept

Twenty years ago, design was just beginning today's upswing – but the US had clearly begun to regain its worldwide prominence in the field

12 September 2007 | spiked

Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth

Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal use for those nations.

30 August 2007 | spiked

Let’s research our own R&D record

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe

24 July 2007 | spiked

Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’

Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward

12 July 2007 | spiked

Let's fight back against the new Model Army

Like voodoo forecasts, computer models of climate change are being used to stifle political discussion and resign man to his Fate

25 July 2006 | spiked

The folly of carbon swipe cards

David Miliband is right: his plan for all citizens to carry around a card that measures their use of carbon will be seen as ‘burden’ by most of us.