Innovation Blog

Nick Robertson, CEO ASOS plc: From recession to recovery through innovation

Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, recession, awards, online, National Business Awards, Nick Robertson, ASOS, Retail, Mid-Cap Business of the year

Find out what Nick Robertson, CEO of

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Failing successfully: Graham Kennedy, Alexoria on cultural barriers to innovation in the UK

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business

Graham Kennedy of

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John Wilden, Global Health Futures on the state of curative healthcare both in the UK and US

Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business, Healthcare | Tags: health, john wilden, global healthcare

“Global Healthcare Futures (GHF) is a UK company that is the brain child of John Wilden, a former specialist and consultant neurosurgeon. GHF is developing and promoting software products for “Time to Cure” and “Cost to Cure” Common Diseases based on the advances of molecular biology and other technologies which will underpin the fast looming world of curative global healthcare, thereby ushering in a new age of diminishing healthcare costs across the developed and developing world”.

Dr Tim Evans, Chairman of Global Health Futures

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Janine Freeman from National Grid discusses the future of Biogas in the UK

Thursday, May 28, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business, Environment | Tags: innovation, government, renewable energy, national grid, biogas

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Measuring Innovation: The Success Story of a Start Up

Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: 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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The Evolution of Innovation

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, jackie hunter, pharmaceutical

Jackie Hunter is the Senior-Vice President and Head of External Science Development at

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Driving Innovation

Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business, Technology | Tags: innovation

Marie Wold discusses the drivers of innovation at

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The rise of Innovation in a fifth dimension – is linear modelling dead?

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business, Education, Technology

David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at

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How to foster a culture of innovation - hire more irritants

Wednesday, April 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation

“Are we really hiring the irritants? Because it’s the irritants that are the risk takers, and it’s the risk takers that contribute to the culture of innovation.” Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO,

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Keeping Innovation Alive

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton

As President of

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The Currency of Common Sense

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation

Will King, CEO of KMI (

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Can the UK still be considered innovative thinkers?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation

Don Elgie, Chief Executive Officer of Creston PLC gives his view on promoting innovation in the UK, what the obstacles are and how the economic downturn will affect the UK's position on the world stage.

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