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It's easy to beat up 'boffin' inventors for not being worldly enough - but innovation is a matter broader than just taking an idea to market.
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Innovation

27 August 2010 | spiked review of books

‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned'

A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril

12 August 2010 | spiked

Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings

Flight is one of man’s greatest achievements. Let’s challenge the greens and officials who want to snuff it out

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!

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

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

7 April 2010 | Proof

Letter from India

Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala 1.3MB

11 March 2010 | spiked

How the state is a roadblock to progress in innovation

Obsessed with red tape, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky developments society needs

30 January 2010 | spiked review of books

Do we need a more venturesome economy?

In the world economy, R&D, laboratories and national competitiveness aren’t everything – but they count for more than Amar Bhidé suggests

23 January 2010 | special to Woudhuysen.com

Innovation: principles, not models!

Innovation cannot prosper without curiosity, serendipity, unpredictable outcomes, inspiring vision, and sheer hard work. These things are principles, not models

21 December 2009 | special to Woudhuysen.com

Think Big!

In innovation, as we look toward a new decade, it's a moment to broaden horizons and demand much more: herewith the first of 14 Principles of Innovation, to be published as BIG POTATOES, the London Manifesto for Innovation

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

19 August 2009 | spiked

New Labour’s power vacuum

The UK government’s obsession with energy self-sufficiency and renewables looks set to lead to blackouts in the next few years

21 July 2009 | spiked

Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?

The fact that Greens oppose even eco-friendly electric cars shows that what they really dislike is travel itself

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

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