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		<title>REDISCOVERING AMBITION IN INNOVATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks there have been a number of articles mainly in the US media which chart the decline of Silicon Valley and the broader decline in US innovation. See for example, Tyler Cowan&#8217;s very useful piece in the New York Times published on Friday 29 January titled &#8216;Innovation Is Doing Little for Incomes&#8216; or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=844&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHINA TO LEAD WORLD INNOVATION BY 2020&#8230;APPARENTLY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters News Service, published on the ABC News channel China is now set to become the leader of world innovation by 2020&#8230;according to a public opinion poll of 6,000 people in six countries done by drug maker AstraZeneca. Public perceptions of course are always impressionistic. But the sentiments expressed in the survey are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=836&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CORPORATE R&amp;D SPENDING IN DECLINE IN 2009</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/11/09/corporate-rd-spending-in-decline-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Booz &#38; Company Global Innovation 1000 Study, corporate R&#38;D spending declined during the 2009 downturn. The report also shows how vacuous the concept of innovation has become and its separation from R&#38;D. The report, the sixth annual study of corporate innovation, notes that total research and development (R&#38;D) spending among the world&#8217;s top spenders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=813&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future City: Is London missing out on the potential of new technologies?</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/10/06/future-city-is-london-missing-out-on-the-potential-of-new-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be participating in the ﻿Story of London Festival tomorrow evening (Thursday 8 October) at the British Library in a debate about London and the future of innovation. This is very timely. Just today the EU has declared an &#8216;Innovation emergency&#8217; recognising that Europe is now falling behind globally in the investment in and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=751&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OECD&#8217;S INNOVATION STRATEGY &#8211; SOME BIG BUT PITTED POTATOES AT LAST!</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/05/28/oecds-innovation-strategy-some-big-but-pitted-potatoes-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 08:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication of the OECD&#8217;s Innovation Strategy this week provides strong support for the Big Potatoes position that future innovation remains fundamental to resolving the global economic crisis we are facing. The OECD report is to be welcomed despite the confusion at its heart about the role of R&#38;D. As can be seen from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=643&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIG POTATOES: INNOVATION, R&amp;D AND THE GENERAL ELECTION</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/04/19/big-potatoes-innovation-rd-and-the-general-election/</link>
		<comments>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/04/19/big-potatoes-innovation-rd-and-the-general-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R&D and Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 27 April, the R&#38;D Society and the authors of BIG POTATOES: The London Manifesto for Innovation in association with EPOCH have together organised an eve-of-election event  on innovation and the future of the UK. Despite its importance to our economic future, innovation has largely been overlooked since the credit crunch and is being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=572&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIG POTATOES: THE LONDON MANIFESTO FOR INNOVATION IS NOW LIVE!</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/03/14/big-potatoes-the-london-manifesto-for-innovation-is-now-live/</link>
		<comments>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/03/14/big-potatoes-the-london-manifesto-for-innovation-is-now-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Potatoes Manifesto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog will know I have been plugging BIG POTATOES: the London Manifesto for Innovation for some time. I&#8217;m pleased to announce that the website is now live. Check it out here. I look forward to your comments, criticisms and hopefully, your support. JOIN THE DEBATE AND HELP GROW BIG POTATOES! Filed under: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=485&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REGULATION &amp; INNOVATION: WHEN THE STATE BECOMES A BARRIER</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/03/13/regulation-innovation-when-the-state-becomes-a-barrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Risk and Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my co-authors of BIG POTATOES: the London Manifesto for Innovation, James Woudhuysen and I have just published an article on government and regulation on spiked-online, titled, &#8216;How the state is a roadblock to progress&#8217; in which we argue that red tape-obsessed, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky innovation society [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=472&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INNOVATION CAPACITY IS STILL IN A STATE</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/03/06/innovation-capacity-is-still-in-a-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics of Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was really struck by this article on Amazon&#8217;s Kindle from the New Republic website based upon an article on the HBR Blog &#8216;Is the US Killing its Innovation Machine?&#8217; by Professor Willy C Shih, titled &#8216;The U.S. Can&#8217;t Manufacture the Kindle and That&#8217;s a Problem&#8217;. It highlights the opposite of what every globalisation guru [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=445&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Potatoes Principle 1: THINK BIG</title>
		<link>http://futures-diagnosis.com/2010/02/06/big-potatoes-principle-1-think-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normlewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recovering ambition in innovation: principle 1 of the Big Potataoes manifesto for Innovation - THINK BIG!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futures-diagnosis.com&amp;blog=850680&amp;post=427&amp;subd=normlewis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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