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There are three upcoming innovation events that you can take advantage of. 1. Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation Workshop. To be held in London on Thursday Sept 16th. This is a one day workshop in which you practise and learn creativity and innovation methods. It will help you to develop new products and services. 2. [...]  I was recently asked in an interview what advice I would give to an incoming government on how to increase innovation in our economy. Here is what I would recommend: 1. Make it as easy as possible to start a new business. Most radical innovations come from start-ups and we need a lot more of [...] Alistair Darling (photo by the Sun) In December the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, announced that he would make cuts of £600m in funding for higher education, research and science by 2012. Shortly afterwards the Science and Technology Facilities council announced a range of cuts in experimental programmes. The number of students funded to [...] There is an informative investigation by the UK National Audit Office entitled, Achieving Innovation in Central Government Organisations. It draws on evidence from specific innovation cases in the public sector to assess government productivity and effectiveness at innovation. Among the findings are ‘Compared with leading commercial organisations, there is potential for departments to develop more [...] Today we had a summit meeting on Innovation between BQF members and senior officials from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills including Lord Drayson, the Minister of State for Science and Innovation. It was a lively and interactive dialogue. DIUS speakers included Christine Hewitt, Deputy Director of Innovation Delivery, Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director of [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] The UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has recently issued a White Paper on how the government plans to help the UK ‘excel at all types of innovation.’ You can download the press release, the executive summary or the full report (all 98 pages). The role of the Department is ‘to champion innovation across the [...] |
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