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Jonathan Kestenbaum Today I attended a lunchtime discussion on the hot topic of innovation in local government. It was held at NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. It was on the launch of a booklet, More than Good Ideas; the power of innovation in local government. The speakers were: Jonathan Kestenbaum, [...] 
Lord Drayson The BQF is delighted that Lord Drayson, The Minister of State for Science and Innovation, will attend the BQF/DIUS Innovation Summit on 22 April. The summit will provide the opportunity to hear from Lord Drayson and senior members of his team, and to discuss with them current innovation policy and the relationship [...]
The World Wide Web is 20 years old. It is a remarkable innovation that has changed our lives. How did it come about? In this video clip from TED, Tim Berners-Lee, the Englishman who started the whole thing, talks about the origins of the Web and his vision for the future. He invented the use [...] You are invited to the next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit on Wednesday 22 April in Victoria, London. It will be hosted by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). The programme includes: Christine Hewitt, Deputy Director Innovation Delivery, DIUS The innovation ecosystem, design, standards, accreditation and public sector innovation Fergus Harradence, Deputy [...] I was asked last night how companies could afford to allocate scarce resources to innovation in these unprecedented times. When every extraneous expenditure is cut back to preserve cash flow how can it be justified to lavish money on experiments that might fail? You do not get innovation for free – you have to allocate [...] As some light relief on a Monday morning let me share this old story I received from Nigel Risner. My first job was working in an Orange Juice factory, but I got canned. I couldn’t concentrate. Then I worked as a Lumberjack, but I just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the axe. After [...]
The Thinker How can you think of things that no-one else thinks of? The answer is by deliberately taking a different approach to the issue from everyone else. There are dominant ideas in every field. The brilliant thinker purposefully challenges those dominant ideas in order to think innovatively. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who discovered Vitamin C, said, [...] |
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