8 January 2009 | BBC Breakfast

Lights: Behind the controversy on compact fluorescents vs incandescents

Keeping the lights on is more vital than improving the energy efficiency of lighting products

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

17 August 2008 | Design magazine, July 1982

Interim report

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

17 July 2008 | Battle of Ideas

China... pollution solution?

How China's economic growth can help the world's environment

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

7 July 2008 | SAB Miller Globalisation Debates

Are global consumer brands a force for good?

Panel speeches and discussion at the Royal Society of Arts, with SAB Miller, Interbrand, Coca-Cola and brand guru Stan Slap

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

1 January 2008 | The Register

The Electric Car Conspiracy... that never was

What a hit movie really tells us about innovation

| Design Council

Mission creep; the limits of design

Transcript of speech at the Intersections conference on design, Newcastle, 25 October 2007

18 December 2007 | IT Week

In praise of Do It Yourself

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

20 November 2007 | IT Week

Lara Croft gets down to business

Is IBM right to believe that computer games can aid corporate education and inspire innovation?

10 October 2007 | spiked

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

4 October 2007 | spiked

Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit

When the Soviets put the first man-made satellite into space, 50 years ago today, the event launched an era of US self-doubt that continues to this day

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.