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The UK’s new £1 billion start-up fund should support entrepreneurs with immediate plans to bring a product into the market, not long-term projects to commercialise new research, says NESTA’s Sami Mahroum.

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.

A greener lifestyle is not inimical to economic growth, says the author of a new report on how green initiatives are triggers for innovation.