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We’re delighted the Business Innovation and Skills Committee of the House of Commons has engaged positively but critically with ‘Digital Opportunity’ (known as the Hargreaves Review) in its new report published yesterday.

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Dr Ben Reid

I want a Catapult Centre I can print out at home

Posted By Ben Reid

26 January 2012

In a world where you can download and print out a range of operational weapons at home, it is appropriate that today the Coalition government announced that one of the new ‘Catapult Centres’ (the entities formally known as Technology Innovation Centres) will be focused on technology transfer for the ‘Connected Digital Economy’.

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The ‘vital 6%’ of high growth firms in the UK, it has been said, are responsible for up to half of new job growth. That 6% are, almost exclusively, Small or Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – at least when they start their growth spurt. So how is the pool of ‘potential’ high growth SME firms in the UK likely to be feeling following George Osborne’s 2011 Autumn Statement, and what are the implications of its prescriptions for their opportunities to innovate and create jobs?

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Dr Ben Reid

We need to get smart on open innovation

Posted By Dr Benjamin Reid, Senior Researcher

06 September 2011

Some commentators have placed the blame for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s decision to close its research and development site at Sandwich in Kent on the rise of ‘open innovation’.

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