“We want to cement the UK’s place as a science and technology superpower.”
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Benedict Cooney
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- That headline does feel like a lifetime ago. The US has also taken a hit, but the UK’s GDP per head is more than 30% lower than it would have been if pre-crisis trends had continued
This is the way. While Britain is good at creating companies, it has trouble scaling them. telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/… - Time to rustle some up
00:00The world would look very different if nuclear continued to grow the past three decades. Emissions would be 6% per cent lower, the same as taking 460m cars from the road or removing the combined total emissions of Canada, S Korea, Australia and Mexico. institute.global/insights/clima… - Possibly the only time I’ll be an opening act for Selena Gomez, but it was great to have her
Trying not to scream every time I see Selena Gomez’s Instagram story… Enormously successful make up brand (obsessed) funding more mental health innovation (obsessed) with TBI (obsessed) Amazing work from @LaurenPackard8 @MalaraElizabeth & Jess Northend - Web3 offers exciting possibilities for new forms of organisational structure, ownership and innovation. It can be a liberating force. Piece for @Discourse_Mag, which nods to @cdixon, @balajis, @packyM and others leading the intellectual charge discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-so…
- The world would look very different if nuclear continued to grow the past three decades. Emissions would be 6% per cent lower, the same as taking 460m cars from the road or removing the combined total emissions of Canada, S Korea, Australia and Mexico.
- We have a plan. We now need a relentless focus on the action thetimes.com/article/f851d2…
- Honestly I try to be charitable but what is the point of these articles. It’s just the usual “It’s all very complex,” “Stuff can go wrong” and “We need to consult more” dross we see time and time again Never anything practical. Ridiculously vacuous criticism on issues we address'Tech has the power to create a better society, but it’s unlikely to happen if AI is unleashed upon us. Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation: it's what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems' My piece for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/comment/2024/1…
- Behind the scenes shot. Well worth listening to the whole episode on Wednesday.
01:04Tony Blair on how a leader can figure out whether their intelligence agencies are wrong (Iraq) or whether they're right (Ukraine). Full episode out Wednesday. - The UK has a stated ambition to become a science superpower, but this will not happen without new organisational models and institutional innovation. Along with the brilliant @Convergent_FROs and @TenThinkTank, we are proposing Focused Research Organisations. 🚀 A short thread
- A NEW NATIONAL PURPOSE part 3 Leading the biotech revolution. Out now. institute.global/insights/polit…
- A growing body is looking at how to tackle scarcity. @ezraklein's written about supply-side progressivism, @tylercowen @patrickc about progress studies, @s8mb this strange concept of "growth." For @InstituteGC, @DKThomp sets out his abundance agenda.
