Time to wake up and smell the coffee in terms of innovation?

Time to wake up and smell the coffee in terms of innovation?

The Boothroyd Room in Portcullis House in Westminster was an emotive place yesterday.  It was the venue for the UK parliament’s, Public Accounts Committee, to interview on the record, leaders from Starbucks, Amazon, and Google on the taxation of multinational corporations. Whilst this is obviously an emotive subject, the element of the discussion that I was surprised…

The Role of Timing in Innovation

The Role of Timing in Innovation

Inventions can happen anywhere, to anyone, and at any time.  At some point during everyone’s life they will come up with something that could be categorised as new and novel and an invention.  When you then look at inventions and overlay what happens to them, how far they are then innovated, you can probably categorise…