John Whatmore
John Whatmore will be blogging on the innovation ecosystem: what he calls the "powerful undertow of invention and cross-fertilisation among products, services, processes, IT and business models".
Follow John's blog as he explores the latest thinking in how creativity can be harnessed and used to secure a golden future for the UK.
The innovation ecosystem has opened up. Once confined to research institutions, university research and corporate R&D, it now includes customers and suppliers, science parks and venture capital, incubators and accelerators, and myriad intermediaries. It extends to public services, social enterprise and local innovations. It is now a much wider world in which finding and developing collaborations and partnerships is itself a big opportunity for creativity.
A bit about John
John has worked in industry all of his life, most recently as chairman of a group of venture capital companies. He has also had a parallel career in local politics and local institutions, especially housing associations in London. Belbin recognises him as a co-ordinator and a creater.
Where accelerators (intensive hothouses designed to generate rapid development) focus on innovation-to-market, do they have anything to offer in those sectors of the economy whose innovation times are inherently longer?
26.03.2012Mentoring is fashionable but elusive: for every outstanding example there are probably many faltering relationships.
22.03.2012Astonishingly, the recently published Finnov Report - about finance, innovation and economic growth in Europe - has been virtually ignored by the UK press, and given only a modest formal welcome by politicians.
16.03.2012Mix together different disciplines and technologies, theory goes, and the sparks of creativity and innovation will fly; but many science parks (like incubators) have been more like property companies than crucibles of alchemy.
15.03.2012I was recently given a glimpse of Springboard, the 13-week Cambridge based accelerator, in operation, which set me wondering what might be the next developments in processes or programmes for the development of innovations and new businesses.
08.03.2012
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