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.
Mix 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.
08.03.2012I was fortunate enough to listen in on the winter meeting of the British Business Angels Association held recently at NESTA. Of particular interest was a session on opportunities for investment in 2012 - which I have added below to the views of an Economist correspondent.
22.02.2012In a recent edition of the New Yorker, a top-notch surgeon tells about how he came to make use of a coach and what it did for him.
01.01.2012We have just held a 'Feast of Innovation Workshops' at City University where a unique collection of workshop leaders, each of four in turn leading a workshop on the same stage of innovation process, demonstrated the need to adapt the style of your workshop to its theme.
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