Incredulous of Cambridge

Tracking stories of interest to the policy community around science, technology, innovation and growth.

Monday, 10 September 2012

No medals for the metaphors

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It has been a great summer to be in the UK, with the Olympics providing a much needed lift. Most of us were drawn in at some stage to the ac...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

Wishful thinking in policy debates

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Four years after the global economic system almost crashed in on top of itself we're still searching for ways to build sustainable econo...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Terms of engagement

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There has been a rash of pieces lately on industrial policy, rebalancing, growth and competitiveness, all discussing what the UK needs to do...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Is this a failure of democracy?

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The continuing crisis in the Euro zone, framed by a series of meetings that seem to never come to a conclusion, has many people asking wheth...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Inevitable or not? The return of manufacturing to the US

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The credit crisis and the recession have been good at one thing - forcing commentators, researchers and managers to challenge their implicit...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

The problem of scale

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I've been reading Ian Morris' Why the West Rules - For Now over the past couple of weeks (some of the blow by blow in the earlier ce...
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Friday, 30 September 2011

Industrial policy back in the Economist

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At the risk of being a cracked record, countries need to consider industrial policy anew. Interestingly even the Economist is looking at ind...
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