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We want to do more to help organisations turn their inspiration and ideas into sustainable value and overcome the problems they face in making innovation happen. Listen to our unique insights and thoughts on why innovation matters, how it happens in reality, and what matters most when it comes to taking action to increase innovation.

  1. Oct 2

    From Pilot to Scale: Crossing The Innovation Valley of Death

    The innovation adoption and scaling up problem in the UK has persisted for many years and the unacceptable low return on investment in a fiscally constrained economy demands a change in approach. Funding needs to shift from innovation creation to innovation adoption. This will help successful innovations scale. Businesses only grow when customers buy their products and services. Hear about our research, the scale of the challenge, and some new ways forward.

  2. Oct 1

    Productivity with Purpose: The Power of Social Innovation

    The relationship between productivity and social innovation means we can build a better future together, without the need to compromise the increase in living standards that comes from economic growth. Productivity has long been viewed as the holy grail of economic growth. From the Industrial Revolution to the digital age, countries and companies have strived to produce more with fewer resources, boosting wealth and living standards in the process. Yet, in recent years, a growing number of researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs have started to question the narrow focus and global obsession with economic growth.

    Productivity with Purpose: The Power of Social Innovation

  3. 09/06/2024

    Increasing Productivity to Reduce Climate Change and Improve Living Standards

    There is a significant gain from increasing productivity – but the way we think about productivity is disconnected from the prevention of climate change and the improvement of living standards across the world. So why not change the message and put the challenge of preventing global climate change and poverty at the forefront of the productivity challenge?  A shared purpose and shared goal will help us pick up speed to win the race to zero carbon.

  4. 04/16/2024

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  5. 08/10/2023

    Selling Innovation

    We work with innovative start-ups in the tech and AI sectors who often find it hard to create a company, product, and service narrative. Their inclination is to focus on what they see as the innovation – the technical detail - rather than what interests customers most. You need to know your technology to instil confidence in the customer that your products work, and your service performance is great.   But creating a compelling narrative about your company, products and services is equally important when it comes to building relationships and winning business.   It's often the stories that people tell about what they do, and why, that matters most when it comes to customer, employee, and supplier engagement.

  6. 06/09/2023

    AI - The Hype and the Reality

    There is much misinformed hype about apocalyptic scenarios where Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more intelligent than humans. But rest assured, whilst we need to accept the fact that the development of new applications made possible by AI will be as disruptive as the industrial revolution, and may be exploited by bad actors, the models that underpin AI, including deep learning using neural networks, will never make machines more intelligent than humans. It is simply not possible to take the step from what we know as AI today, to what we would describe as 'general artificial intelligence' - the human capacity for creativity, innovation and what is widely considered as just being "common sense".

  7. 03/12/2023

    Creating Time to Think

    Creating time to think is a key enabler of innovation. Organisations that create the time and environments for their people to think, and increase the quality of their collective team thinking, can foster a culture that increases innovation – as well as many other benefits.

  8. 01/19/2023

    Improving Your Return on Investment From Innovation

    We need to think differently about how we set businesses up to innovate. Our analysis of funding SME product development and research using the current traditional approach shows we need change - the return on investment is too small. But this can be addressed by investing in innovation enablers, which come at much lower cost. These enablers focus on making innovation business-as-usual, creating a shared organisational purpose, collaborating to innovate, and creating market contagion - and can make the difference between success and failure.

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