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Google and the Cold War that businesses must play
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... without much science, innovation or enterprise. Without their spies, the Soviets could not have developed the technologies that they did. Countries, aware of the value of strategic technologies in ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
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... origins? Would they speak the same language, share the same jokes or be driven by the same goals? Innovation, almost by definition, is about the new and the different. The likelihood of any two innovators ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
The infinite size of an infinitely sliced fish
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... portions - finance has created almost limitless opportunities, innovation and jobs. And consider further that anyone who would regulate this industry must be as sensitive to it as is a fisherman to his ... Thursday, 28 January 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... that the high strength of these materials might make the concept possible. In March 2005, NASA introduced an annual competition - the Space Elevator Challenge - in order to promote investment and innovation. ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
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... caused by sudden innovation. The credit crisis is not a failure of one industry. It is a signal flare lighting up more general wilful ignorance and bad planning. ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
The delicate subject of patents
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... to patent the first telephone and the spoils went to Alexander Graham Bell. The purpose of a patent – an exclusive monopoly on the ownership of an idea – has always been to promote investment in innovation ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... leads to a greater return on that effort. It also leaves time for innovation. That innovation triggers further division of labour and creates more opportunities and wealth. None of this can happen, ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
American healthcare reform is merely a warm-up for the rest of us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... rapidly become unaffordable. Most of the controversy is based on the assumption that healthcare is a zero-sum game. Either the poor pay, or the rich do. But innovation and competition introduce the prospect ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
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... allow – even encourage – this pursuit of profit is simple. We, as a society, hope that others will be inspired by these profits to push themselves harder and further to generate greater innovations and ... Thursday, 29 October 2009 -
Strikes won’t help, but a little ingenuity goes a long way
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to; reduce the amount of red-tape they have to deal with so that administration doesn’t become horribly expensive. Monopoly practices, too, can be intolerable for business innovation and growth: whether ... Thursday, 27 August 2009 -
America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
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... innovation and design, and pay that money to their pension funds. That, added to a global glut of manufacturing capacity, and the international network of auto-manufacturers is facing a crisis. The ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
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... revolution? South Africa’s problem is not that the government is not doing enough to protect existing jobs. Rather it is that economic policy has so dampened innovation in order to protect chosen industries ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 -
Is the Tata Nano recession proof?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... 21,000, the four-door car is the cheapest on the planet. Innovation over the past few decades has involved using technological improvements to offer ever more sophisticated products at ever-increasing ... Wednesday, 10 June 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
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... who really drive growth and innovation. Worrying about the pay of CEOs in comparison to unskilled, semi-employed workers is a red-herring. It misses the real question: how do we make it more exciting ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Government and Business, Panic and Rescue
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... banking sector. Does this mean that free-market capitalism has failed and that the future is state-owned enterprise? The short answer is, “No.” Only capitalism can unlock innovation. ... Wednesday, 26 November 2008 -
Higher food prices are good for the poor
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... as well as more efficient appliances. International investment in new forms of energy production rose 30% in 2008, to over $ 100 billion. Higher prices do more for stimulating innovation, new capacity ... Sunday, 02 November 2008 -
Apple, the destroyer of comfort-zones
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... by surprise, are rapidly catching up to Apple's innovations. Apple appears to have realised that they are going to have to adapt. Their new 3G iPhone was released, without contractual strings, on ... Tuesday, 02 September 2008 -
The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
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... brutality. Herodotus, Histories What Herodotus knew in 440BC, some 2,500 years ago, was this: opportunity is set on the margin. It is the historical power to choose either astonishing innovation, ... Wednesday, 27 August 2008 -
Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Governments do not know anything about competition, innovation or the power of individual investment. The best they can ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008 -
Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
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... and ban incandescent light bulbs. The only way to promote responsible use of electricity, as well as creative innovation, is to make it expensive. As a side-effect it'll help the environment as well. ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008
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