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Here is an interesting article on the BBC site featuring Martha Lane Fox. She addresses the question how can we survive a global downturn? And she quotes Frank Lloyd Wright’s marvellous words, ‘An idea is salvation by imagination.’ She says, ‘All the headlines talk of businesses cutting enormous numbers of jobs and scaling back investments. [...]  What are the key characteristics of a corporate culture that promotes innovation? And those that inhibit innovation? These were the topics we discussed in a workshop I facilitated yesterday for the Global Business Partnership Alliance. We discussed a number of issues. We conducted a survey among attendees and these were the main issues in the [...] In this article in Businessweek Sami Mahroum says that ‘during economic downturns, innovation is the single most important condition for transforming the crisis into an opportunity’. He argues for active government intervention to boost innovation. ‘In the short term, governments need to provide support to small companies to help them manage the crisis and continue to [...] |
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