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  • Into the valley of silicon rode the twenty (and helpers)

    12, February, 2010 by David Bott | Comments: 0
    It is often easy to identify the moment when an idea crystallises but then to forget all the half-formed ideas and blind alleys that led to it. As we get close to the actual Clean and Cool Mission, I was explaining its history to a colleague and realised what an interesting story it was, so thought recording it might have value. (Imagine this scrolling up across your screen as in the beginning of Star Wars…)
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  • The right tool for the job

    07, February, 2010 by David Bott | Comments: 0
    Over the last few weeks, I have been asked quite a few times about how companies can get support from the Technology Strategy Board...
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  • Of Google and geckos' feet

    25, January, 2010 by David Bott | Comments: 2
    Over the last 30 months, almost from the start of the Technology Strategy Board as a separate organisation, two questions have kept being asked of us – and probably of others. The first, cast usually in a rather downbeat way, is “Will the UK ever produce a company like Google?”
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  • System Avatars

    11, December, 2009 by David Bott | Comments: 0
    Innovation is risky. But there are many ways to reduce the risk, and one is modelling developments first. Modelling and simulation have been a part of science from the beginning, enabling us to play “what-if” games without the consequences of action in the real world.
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  • Do we know what we are measuring?

    10, December, 2009 by Iain Gray | Comments: 0
    A couple of weeks ago I attended the launch of the pilot Innovation Index at NESTA, which highlighted again an issue which is never far from my mind: how to measure the impact of innovation initiatives and the importance of metrics to the innovation landscape...
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