When a new technology appears it is usually accompanied by great excitement, at least from its inventors. What new opportunities does the technology open up? Where can we use it?
The early enthusiasm quickly runs into practical barriers. The Gartner Hype ...
You may have seen the TV advert for Experian in which Marcus Brigstocke meets his ‘data self’. A collection of live information that governs how financial institutions treat him as a customer. This is a variant of the ‘digital twin’ ... What do Mumbai, Copenhagen, the Spanish town of Castellón de la Plana, and the small US town of Dalton, Georgia, have in common?
Each is at the centre of a concentrated industry cluster.
Mumbai is famous for being the home of Bollywood, ... I love reading innovation stories. Where the idea came from, how they overcame problems, and what they make possible. Stories are how we excite people about innovation and why it matters. We need to tell more stories and better stories.
My ... I have long thought the only way we can create cities that are economically successful, great places to live, sustainable and resilient, is to treat them as an integrated system of systems.
The problem is that cities are so complicated we ...
150 years ago, Dimitri Mendeleev developed the Periodic Table of the Elements. A way of organising all the information about the behaviour of the 63 elements known at the time. It has become an iconic image of science, and in ... To innovate, we need to try things out; to experiment.
But how do we select the right experiment? How do we choose?
Whenever we conduct an experiment, we want the maximum information at the minimum cost. Experiments should be as simple and ...
Last Friday I attended the annual Business Green Technology Awards. I always enjoy these events as they provide a great snapshot of innovation activity in the cleantech sector in the UK.
This year I was a member of the judging panel ... We know that business needs to innovate. Whether a startup, established SME or major industry player, new customer offers are critical for survival.
We also know that most innovations fail in the market; despite our enthusiasm, creativity and persistence.
We need to ... In 1955 C. Northcote Parkinson wrote an article in The Economist that introduced the world to Parkinson’s Law – “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”.
An observation so universal in application that it is instantly recognisable in ...
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