Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
energy,
education,
Gordon Brown,
healthcare,
security,
collaborative innovation,
Saul Kaplan,
downing street
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
Bill Gates,
innovators,
eco,
economist,
nuclear,
Nathan Myhrvold,
travelling-wave reactor,
TerraPower
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: research,
university,
engineering,
print
For around $200,000, a true spring bargain, you will soon be able to buy the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
entrepreneur,
research,
financial,
business models,
New Business Models,
car,
Alysoun Stewart,
economist
Nearly two thirds (63%) of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery according to new research from leading financial and business advisers, Grant Thornton.
How is your business responding to the recession?
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: recession,
Board,
research,
financial,
strategy,
New Business Models,
Economist,
EIU,
M%A
Our research shows that most companies need to review, and possibly renew, their business models.
Here are some suggestions from our own experts on the areas that you might wish to table:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: strategy,
Wendy Hart,
Google,
Stephen Weatherseed,
economist,
Microsoft,
EIU,
Dominic Preston,
Will Oxley,
New Business Model
Read here what our Grant Thornton experts think about the weaknesses of business models used by UK businesses today.
Let us know what you think
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: financial,
business models,
Wendy Hart,
New Business Models,
Lead Advisory Services
Business models - the challenges facing UK businesses today
Some of our experts give us their view ...
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Wall Street Journal, apps
This is the coolest piece of innovation I’ve seen so far this year… the Jawbone device
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: market, patents, Acacia Research, design, Business Week, Rachael King, law
‘Pimp my patent’ might just be runner as an obscure digital TV channel – with exclusive membership for lawyers. Based on the USA’s cult car show ‘Pimp my ride’, patent attorneys would trawl databases for patents to buy, then sue companies who have infringed those patents. In financial innovation terms, it’s a sort of derivative market, nothing is actually made, just innovative deals made out of current legal frameworks. The presenter wouldn’t be a banker, it would be troll; where differences end and similarities begin?
Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: Bloom, Energy, Wired, California, Domestic, Carbon, Market, Patents, Acacia Research, Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Vogue, Stylist, Streaming, Horizonal Innovation, Bill Gates,
This is the market-making story of the month. Bloom Energy unveiled an energy server which can provide 100 kilowatts of power by converting natural gas or other hydrocarbons into electricity, pretty much on demand.
