UK economy – maintaining the growth momentum
28/01/2014
It is encouraging news that that the UK’s economic recovery is really starting to take hold. For the first time since the recession, we have…
Innovation
After the awakening: UK technology is vital to next stage of the Rosetta Space mission
24/01/2014
With today’s BBC report on Major Tim Peake’s preparations for being the next UK astronaut in space, it is worth re-visiting another big space story…
Robots and jobs (again)
17/01/2014
As an economist, I hate bad data and over interpretation of bad data. And although a picture may say a thousand words, those thousand words…
Single-Aisle Savings
16/01/2014
Aviation Week have released a great infographic (below) on just a few of the fuel saving technologies that will be available on the next generation…
Space: A Strategy for Growth
07/01/2014
The focus this week on the success and innovation of the UK’s space industry, has included the UK’s ambition to obtain 10% of the global…
Robots aren’t stealing our jobs
06/01/2014
It may seem a rather odd title, but there’s a very lively debate going on in the UK and US on whether robots are stealing…
100 years of Commercial Aviation – but what of the next 100?
03/01/2014
As commercial aviation celebrated 100 years since the first commercial aircraft flight this week, industry leaders have been discussing and debating what the next 100…
‘Disruption is capitalism’s great party trick’
16/12/2013
Great article from Stian Westlake from NESTA this morning in City AM looking at the need to foster disruption in UK finance models via crowdfunding…
UK lags behind in R&D spend
13/12/2013
Tera Allas, a strategic advisor at the Department for Business, has tweeted a chart that looks at absolute R&D spend (as opposed to R&D as…
Secular stagnation & ‘faux capital’ (or why not all growth it equal)
11/12/2013
Following a speech by Larry Summers (former US Treasury Secretary & advisor to Presidents Clinton & Obama), economists around the world are debating something called…