29 April 2010 | BBC Radio 4 Material World

Interview on innovation and the UK general election

The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico shows the need to think big in undersea robots and every kind of technological innovation. British politicians, wake up!

8 April 2010 | spiked

Election 2010: question everything on innovation!

This article explores the roots of Britain's current neglect of scientific and technological innovation, and calls for the creation of new industries for the twenty-first century

4 November 2009 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

Innovation: 10 case studies

Paper to the conference Insight Shanghai on how to translate social trends into new products – new technologies and emerging patterns of use 108kB

16 September 2009 | Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council

Challenge of the crisis

In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? 6MB

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

7 April 2009 | spiked

A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?

Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated

26 March 2009 | Computing

Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D

If regulators get the better of innovators, it will only serve to prolong the recession

11 September 2008 | Computing

Is man's best friend a robot's worst enemy?

As consumers start to explore the benefits of mobile robotics, a potential rival to the technology is emerging from an unlikely source

11 July 2008 | IT Week

Will insight lose out to inanity on the mobile web?

Mobile web’s business potential may be undermined by its more frivolous aspects

30 May 2008 | IT Week

Innovators must follow Frank's example

Sinatra’s My Way might be a hammy song, but it’s the right policy in R&D

28 April 2008 | IT Week

Experience trumps youthful exuberance

Firms must resist calls to indulge the techno-whims of the MySpace generation

28 March 2008 | IT Week

Race to be green saps creative energy

The energy conservation fad is symptomatic of IT leaders’ narrowing ambition

18 December 2007 | IT Week

In praise of Do It Yourself

Bringing in outsiders to help big firms innovate doesn’t guarantee success