Innovation Blog

Nathan Myhrvold’s opens the gates to ‘Invention Capital’

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.

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Flawed strategies put business recovery at risk as recession ends

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

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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?

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What are the weaknesses in today’s business models?

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

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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

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Green business – Energy and Auto

Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business, Environment, Technology | Tags: links, renewable energy, energy, engineering, science, car, eco, economist, euronews

This is the year for green energy. All the main players have put there money where their mouths have been for years. We will see more and more serious, competitive, ambitious lifestyle products focused on green values. Electric cars have been a persisting favourite of this column, and finally our television screens are selling us real, cool, cheaper electric cars we can be smug to be seen in.

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Multi-touch platforms, the innovation of precision

Monday, January 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Technology | Tags: innovation, media, technology, global, eco, economist, Wallpaper, 3-D, augmented reality, Sensitive Object, multiplatform, Innovation Island Conference

Aretha Franklin wanted us all to “reach out” and we thought it was a bit personal, but today, reaching out, touching, creates a new connection likely to integrate your finger tip with a remote control system based uniquely on acoustics.

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Water rescue: Innovation, a fight for survival

Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: 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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Get me a dealmaker – One part innovator, one part salesman. Shaken and stirred.

Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Education, Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, financial, university, europe, intellectual property, economist, patent, entrepreneurial, capitalism

Seventy years ago,

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