Sustainability research funding – Is this just a case of Government lip-service?

The latest spin from the Technology Strategy Board reveals that a paltry £7M is going to be spread thinly across 17 projects – shared by 70 institutions, with a direct benefit to a clutch of very well known global companies… Continue reading

The democratization of institutions

The other week, I was at a meeting of a century old institution. The incoming President presented the results of a review that he’d been engaged in, that had impacts on the organisational structure, especially that affecting a number of… Continue reading

What exactly is an entrepreneur?

BLOG: What exactly is an entrepreneur? I’ve been doing a lot of work around the nature of entrepreneurism lately, and thought it might be a worthwhile topic to explore with a wider group of people too. Mention the term ‘entrepreneur’… Continue reading

Was Marshall Field really all that wrong?

I have learned something today. According to a debate on another social networking platform, apparently, if a customer wants something that is beyond their full understanding, then if they fail to learn enough to be able to explain to the… Continue reading

Business Book of the Week – Understanding the Small Business Sector – Storey

I’d like to draw your attention to a blog by Julian Thompson who is the director of projects at the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (the RSA). Julian has worked as a social researcher for 10 years.… Continue reading

How crowd accelerated innovation is transforming the nature of entrepreneurship

There have been entrepreneurs forever, though the industrial revolution created the conditions for far more of them to find an expression for their skills and ideas. Before that, entrepreneurship was given a huge stimulus when Gutenburg transformed the process of… Continue reading

Operational Excellence and Leadership

This article was posted on one of my earlier websites as a PDF file. The original file is available here: 021wilson.pdf I’m having a few technology hiccoughs extracting the original text so that it can appear here. For the time… Continue reading

Accessing Knowledge and Networks (Book Extract)

This article was posted on one of my earlier websites as a PDF file. The original file is available here: 020wilson I’m having a few technology hiccoughs extracting the original text so that it can appear here. For the time… Continue reading