Innovation

Traditional innovation has been about creating something new that an individual can pay for. That’s no longer enough, says Mats Williander.

An advisory board of technology visionaries and venture capital leaders from all over the world will work alongside 3i to encourage entrepreneurship in the companies it invests in.

Corporations may be their own worst enemy when it comes to new ideas and innovations, which is good news for external partners, says an IBM executive.

Can you relate a firms performance and its technological capability?

Finding the magic ingredients that will generate innovation remains a major preoccupation across the public and private sectors. Two leading protagonists from academe and industry shares their thoughts.

The Scottish Funding Council has put up £870,000 in an initiative to provide a single point of access for matching the know-how within the country's 20 universities and research institutions with the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Everyone wants to encourage innovation. But, says Alain de Serres from the OECD, a survey of the world’s leading industrial countries shows they are going about it in different ways and with very different results.