Sami Mahroum

Innovation: throwing away the old books

Across the world innovation policy remains largely dominated by an “assembly line” Fordist-style thinking – but 21st-century innovation is based on fuzzy logic, says NESTA’s Sami Mahroum.

First choose your innovation index…

The UK government has asked the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts to come up with a new index of innovation achievement. But by any measure, says NESTA’s Sami Mahroum, the UK is moving up.