s Welcome to my new Investments blog. I'll be sharing insights with you about growth companies, early stage investments and the wider entrepreneurial and venture industry
s NESTA's research team have just completed a review of the UK early stage Venture Industry
s Over the past few years in the UK there has been a growing sense of disillusionment in the transparency of parliament and its elected officials. Revelations and the resulting scandal over unnecessary expenses claims means that our trust in MPs has never been lower.
s Apparently the average productive time of a drill in its entire lifetime is about 12-13 minutes.
How to open up local data: notes, tips and tricks from Warwickshire council
s Driving cars can be fun. The personal freedom, the wind in your hair and the stereo switched up to 11 while singing to Gary Numan.
s No doubt that in years to come – probably with family and friends over a small glass of wine – someone will ask “Where were you when Gordon Brown left Number 10?”
Going forward into cash-strapped times, there will be increasing pressure to deliver better public services for less.
Yesterday, the team at Patient Opinion hosted mypublicservices, a conference to reflect on how the web is transforming public services and what more it could do in the future.
NESTA's call for radical innovation in public services found a new level of comfort among decision-makers in the NHS this month. As the thinking has evolved about how cuts in budgets could be met, the penny suddenly dropped.
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