Innovation Matters
Published: 19/03/2008
You can’t delve far into the literature on selling without bumping into Henry Ford. Although normally hailed as the designer of the Model T car and father of the assembly line, Ford’s greatest achievements actually came in the marketing and sales arena.
Published: 25/02/2008
David Ogilvy, founder of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, once said of market research, “I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard
Published: 24/01/2008
2007 was the year ‘the environment’ finally made it to the top of the world’s agenda. The UN Climate Change Conference in Bali saw 187 countries agreeing a two-year process of negotiations to decide on measures to fight global warming.
Published: 20/12/2007
In the world of innovation, 2007 was a good one for UK enterprise. The 2007 R&D Scoreboard showed a 9% increase in R&D investment by the UK’s top companies, up to £21 billion.
Published: 12/11/2007
Who would have thought that writing children’s books was such a legal minefield? Author Robert Ronsson recently found himself in the news for all the wrong reasons when his latest book, Olympic Mind Games, was threatened with legal action.
Published: 03/10/2007
In July this year, Anglo-French relations were strained yet again when an Australian historian revealed that the metric system was first invented, not by a Frenchman, but by the English scientist John Wilkins in 1668.
Published: 11/09/2007
The history of the world shows that artists and scientists have a lot in common. Leonardo da Vinci’s achievements in the arts and the sciences are universally regarded as staggering. Einstein himself was a superb violinist.
Published: 07/08/2007
In an age of unremitting digitalisation, it’s refreshing to see that the world’s oldest toy manufacturer, Lego, is still educating and entertaining the world’s children after 70 years.
Published: 17/07/2007
Scientists and theologians are locked in debate in the US about ‘intelligent design’. Is life on earth the result of conscious design by an intelligent ‘entity’, or the product of evolution, fuelled by millions of years of random biological mutations?
Published: 19/06/2007
26 April 2007 was World IP Day. You might have missed it, but the UK Intellectual Property Office (formerly the Patent Office) chose that day to publish their 2006 Intellectual Property (IP) Awareness Survey.
Published: 04/06/2007
Changes to the R&D Tax Relief regime announced in the Budget will increase the number of eligible companies and the amounts they can claim, but will reduce the timeframe within which claims can be made.
Published: 03/05/2007
Gambling and politics – both risky businesses. Not even ‘dead certs’ are guaranteed to win, as the Government discovered to its embarrassment when the House of Lords defeated its plans for a new generation of casinos.