Innovation Blog
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
government,
energy,
university,
innovators,
science,
car
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
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Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
india,
innovators,
science,
economist
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
google,
microtrend,
virul marketing,
twitter
Google admits it has something to learn from Twitter….
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Friday, May 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
science,
amazon
“Jeff Bezos is outpacing our expectations,” wrote an analyst of Amazon’s CEO…
His much-viewed appearance on ‘The Daily Show with John Stewart’ was classic Bezos, nerdy, smiley, hyperactive. Struggling, just a little, to convince Stewart we’ll all read from slim digital screens in the future, he rocked back and forwards with laughter, like Spock on a rollercoaster.
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Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Education,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
financial,
university,
europe,
intellectual property,
economist,
patent,
entrepreneurial,
capitalism
Seventy years ago,
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Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation
Marie Wold discusses the drivers of innovation at
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Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
innovators,
broadband,
financial innovation,
starbucks,
telecoms,
voip,
mobile financial services,
3-d imaging,
global banking
Data is about to drive some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions the global markets have ever seen. Some banks are preparing for a breathtaking integration of telecom delivery channels which will leave their competitors gasping for growth.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Technology
| Tags: government,
nuclear,
economist intelligence unit,
geneva motor show,
electric cars
Some years from now, there will be less talk of economic gambling and more on how we played a steady hand in heavy seas. We will talk of how innovation, and investment in electric cars, changed the way we live our lives, how green cars became the catalyst for economic recovery and a beacon of British science and ambition.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
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Business,
Education,
Technology
Descartes’ ‘I think; therefore I am,’ will be surpassed by ‘We have; therefore we will’ – our capacity for assessing reality is heading for a quantum leap.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Education,
Technology
David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
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