Innovation update

The new business magazine by Grant Thornton (Elevate) carries a number of articles about innovation. Amongst the most interesting points are:

• There is a new £4.5m state of the art Digital Manufacturing Centre with facilities for rapid prototyping at the Metrolopolitan Works Creative Industries Centre in London.

• Larry Keeley of strategy firm Doblin Inc developed a diagnostic tool called Innovation Landscape to graphically display activity, change, development and opportunity in a given industry. Clients work through ten types of innovation that can raise a company’s success rate.

• Charles Leadbeater’s latest book “We-Think” explores the way online sharing of views, ideas and information will change global government, business, science and culture and there is a YouTube video that explains more.

• Chris Brogan gives specific and practical advice to those hoping to use social media tools to change their business’s future

• The top 30 innovations of the last 30 years provided by The Wharton School in Pennsylvanian and US television show Nightly Business Report includes:
o Internet
o Personal computers
o Mobile phones
o Email
o DNA mapping
o MRI scans
o Microprocessors
o Fibre optics
o Office software
o Robotic surgery
o Restriction free software
o LEDs
o LCDs
o GPS
o Online shopping
o File compression
o Microfinance
o Solar energy
o Wind turbines
o Social networking sites
o Graphic user interface
o Digital cameras
o RFID
o GM plants
o Biofuels
o Bar codes
o ATMs
o Stents
o SRAM
o Antiretrovirals

Grant Thornton also provides a great blog on innovation at www.grant-thornton.co.uk/thinking. And it also offers ‘Innovation Island: is the UK open for business?’ by the Economist Intelligence Unit. En appuyant sur la somme de jeu automatique est une option additionnelle qui permet aux clients des casinos en ligne de fois que les tours ne soient épuisés. tous les sommes des paramètres initiales avant que votre choix initial n’est pas changer vos paramètres prédéterminés . casino en ligne sans telechargement en Suisse En appuyant sur la mise, le jeu , le nombre de jeu , cependant, pas changer vos paramètres prédéterminés à jouer et le jeu automatique est une option additionnelle qui permet aux clients des casinos en ligne de commencer le nombre de fois que .