The US research funder is widely admired, but does the UK have the guts to start its own version?
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My year of buying almost nothing saved me thousands of dollars – but also taught me valuable lessons as a teacher, including about the benefits of failure.
Innovation is integral to the success of Canadian retailers and encouraging consumers to shop in stores as well as online. The big strategic risk is not innovating and failing, but failing to innovate.
The US defence industry spawned the IT revolution. It gives us tips for how to limit climate change, but not a complete road map.
Long before Apple vs. Microsoft or Facebook vs. Google, there was Edison vs. Westinghouse.
Although Black, Indigenous and people of colour have been shown to do more with less resources, government funding to bolster social and economic innovation doesn’t tend to reach these communities.
Historically, the Canadian government supported Canadian innovation and discovery. This support will be threatened if a Conservative government is voted in.
Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship has been on a worryingly downward trend since the 1980s – here’s why.
Universities, industry and government should work together so that knowledge translates into socio-economic benefits.
Australia is falling behind other countries in digital skills and infrastructure, but smarter planning and investment can turn things around.
Traditional banks don’t understand the challenge they face from fintech disruptors and their competitive advantage is on the wane.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Our understanding of where new and exciting ideas come from in the business world is backwards.
Policies that will drive investment and change the structure of economies in the West African sub region are facing several challenges.
New technologies and services aren’t creating irreversible damage, even though they do generate some harms. Preemptive bans would stifle innovation and block potential solutions to real problems.
Legal bans and moratoriums on other emerging technologies need not be permanent or absolute, but the more powerful a technology is, the more care it requires to operate safely.
Our new research shows that public servants are eager to become innovative public problem solvers, but their leaders are standing in their way.
Challenge prizes have triggered some great leaps forward.
From the Tory leadership election to innovation policy, a small number of similarly-minded people are making the big decisions.
Business minds using up leftovers.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Innovator in Residence, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Co-fondateur du Laboratoire d’usages culture(s)-art-société (LUCAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute