Innovation Blog
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?
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Monday, January 18, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
government,
Russia,
google,
Japan,
Boris Berezovsky,
Abramovitch,
Sergey Brin,
London Evening Standard,
Putin,
Dmitry Medvedev
Russia is aspiring to be a global force for the innovative and ambitious
“The secret of politics?” said Bismark, “Make a good treaty with Russia.” Otto von Bismark, Prussian Prime Minister, founder and Chancellor of the German Empire, knew how to separate roubles from rubble. Today, more than 100 years after Bismark, the dead dog of communism has awakened as a proud lion. Russia ended 2008 with GDP growth of 5.6%, following 10 straight years of growth averaging seven per cent.
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Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Education
| Tags: innovation,
media,
entrepreneur,
financial,
government,
talent,
university,
india,
car
Neutron Jack is back. Jack Welch, General Electric’s supercharged former CEO, is putting formidable wealth right next to his informative mouth, launching a new online MBA which he claims will compete with bricks and mortar programmes.
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Friday, May 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
energy,
healthcare,
science,
pharmaceuticals,
nanotechnology
Defence of our nation’s health persists as a matter of priority. It’s an irrational position to take, for ultimately the nation cannot preserve our health, we all expire, a bit like identity cards. Our expectation, is that one day we won’t shuffle off this mortal coil, but just go for a refit, an upgrade, popping into Me-Me World at lunch to get memory chips expanded and a couple of heart valves replaced.
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