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...Nesta, which describes itself as the UK’s innovation agency for social good, says peer review can be “biased against radical new thinking, geography, ideology and gender”....
...“If there is an iron law of research policy it is that plurality and diversity are really important,” says James Wilsdon, professor of research policy at Sheffield University....
...August 27 No Time to Die$600m was the rumoured asking price at which studio backer MGM would have considered selling the new James Bond movie No Time to Die to Netflix or Apple....
...“I think he will announce virtue tomorrow,” predicted John Gieve, a former BoE deputy governor and chairman of Nesta, the innovation foundation....
...James Flint says Hospify, a GDPR-compliant messaging platform he co-founded to replace WhatsApp messaging among medical professionals, had been going for five years by the time it was admitted to the NHS...
...James Robinson, a vaccine manufacturing expert, told the science writer Maggie Koerth: “A vaccine manufacture . . . might source several thousand ingredients to make a vaccine....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...The report was issued by the charity Nesta. Geoff Mulgan, its chief executive, was an adviser to former UK prime minister Gordon Brown....
...Keen to get a sense of what the industry looks like from the inside, I phone the developer James Delaney, who runs the boutique London-based gaming outfit Blockworks....
...The research, in partnership with innovation foundation Nesta, also classified films in genre categories, an exercise that showed British filmmakers had a marked preference for comedy over love, producing...
...This change, demonstrate Haskell of Imperial College and Westlake of Nesta, raises extraordinarily complex challenges for businesses and public policy....
...the full memo Further reading A fairy tale for 2017 Stian Westake muses on a post-Brexit UK where innovative industrial strategy, devolution and public investment make the country more like Germany (Nesta...
...James Clunie, a fund manager at Jupiter, said there had been a “morphing” of the people who are lending. “The image is of a person on their sofa on a laptop....
...Stian Westlake, head of policy and research at innovation charity Nesta, says investors will not know “until the next recession” how the risk rating operations of the lenders hold up....
...James Meekings, UK managing director of Funding Circle, argues that the criticism has been overdone....
...Case study: Speedy process After jumping through “lots of hoops” to try to secure a bank loan for his handmade chocolate business, James Hutchins turned to Funding Circle....
...James Knightley, senior economist, ING Inflation is likely to rise above 3% next year as the pound’s collapse translates into further increases in import prices....
...Last year, companies raised £26m on rewards-based crowdfunding platforms in the UK, Nesta estimated....
...John Gieve, the chairman of Nesta and former deputy governor of the Bank of England, said “the short term reaction has been smaller than I expected but this is only the beginning of the story”....
...James Sproule, chief economist, Institute of Directors More fiscal room for manoeuvre will be needed than we would like....
...James Sproule, chief economist, Institute of Directors Up, but ever so slowly....
...John Gieve, chair, Nesta Any fiscal boost in the US will help our economy but the shocks and uncertainties of the Trump style will offset that....
...Sharing online is no longer an activity reserved for the cutting-edge digital user: a 2014 study by Nesta, the innovation foundation, found that a quarter of people had used the internet to take part in...
...James Sproule, chief economist, Institute of Directors Immigrants remain vital to UK economic growth, from construction and infrastructure to the NHS to start-ups....
...James Knightley, senior economist, ING We think the 2017 growth rate of the economy will be half the rate of 2016 (1.1% versus 2.1%)....
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