Innovation

3i calls in experts in entrepreneurship

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.
23 Oct 2006

Innovation needs partners, says IBM

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.
03 Oct 2006

The innovation problem just won’t go away

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.
27 Sep 2006

Scotland's 'Interface' links businesses, researchers

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.
29 Mar 2006

Going for growth

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.
15 Feb 2006