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Theme : enterprise
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Wanted: risk-takers for the next decade
Duncan O'Leary and Paul Skidmore of the think-tank Demos argued that enterprise should be embedded within the teaching of employability skills, for both young people and adult learners.
"Common debate centres around literacy, numeracy, and communication – all of which are valuable and potentially life-changing skills. Yet these may not necessarily be the skills that will equip our nation to be enterprising go-getters in the global economy," said O'Leary.
from : mollywebb
15th July 2008
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The Big Picture
With the moving image sector the fastest growing part of the creative economy,Demos Head of Culture John Holdon has written this study of the nine Regional Screen Agencies. The Big Picture looks closely at how the screen agencies work, highlighting their impact across communities, creativity and the economy.
from : markfuller
21st July 2006
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Localism in the market place?
Yesterday I came across this article about local breweries in South Africa not being allowed to sell their beer in the football stadiums during the 2010 World Cup, because they have been outbid by an American beer giant. This painfully reminded me of a passionate conversation I had with my friends in Munich a few months ago when they told me that the same was true for the World Cup in Germany this year. This means that in a country, Bavaria, that is famous for its variety of local brews and...
from : juliahuber
28th February 2006
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Getting it right
According to FastCompany, and in line with Duncan's thinking below, 'what defines an entrepreneur (as well as an entrepreneurial organization) is that relentless problem-solving approach, not the specifics of the problem itself.' And the winners of FastCompany's 2006 annual social capitalist awards show us how it is possible to be entrepreneurial and change the world at the same time.
from : juliahuber
20th January 2006
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Dublin's Digital Hub
The site is in an area called the Liberties just on the edge of Dublin city centre on what was once part of the vast Guinness brewery. Over the past couple of decades the Liberties have fallen on hard times as employment in the area has dropped, buildings have become derelict and literacy rates have stagnated. Schools are struggling with enrolment as people have moved out to the suburbs over time.Through their DLLI scheme, the Hub has created some great examples of technology as a tool for...
from : paulmiller
6th September 2005
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Relationships, Generosity and Openess
Yesterday, I went to visit the Bromley by Bow Centre - a community initiative in east London. When I walked into the central courtyard of the centre, I felt like I had entered a green oasis in the middle of one of the most deprived wards in the UK.Bromley by Bow offers a whole range of services and activities - from health care to art classes to gardening to educational qualitifcations - and has over the years developed into a community hub and social enterprise incubator. In the last year or...
from : juliahuber
1st June 2005
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Are the best places to work 'disorganised'?
The FT ran a special supplement yesterday on the UK's best workplaces which confirms much of the argument we made in Disorganisation last year. The general theme is that employees are increasingly demanding organisations fit around their aspirations and values rather than try to slot them into an organisational machine. In case you're wondering, Demos didn't qualify because we have less that 50 employees.
from : paulmiller
29th April 2005
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All the right ingredients, but what's the recipe for Swedish Success?
I'm not talking meatballs. World class achievements in innovation, legendary investment in people and a thriving export industry aren't enough to ensure Sweden's sutainable success, prosperity and global competitiveness. Although Sweden enjoyed the fourth highest GDP per capita in the 1970's, it has since slipped down to 17th place in the global rankings.Healthy conditions for innovation aren't translating into proportionate rates of entrepreneurial activity. But why?Tom and I travelled to Are...
from : kirstenbound
6th April 2005
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Is Digby Bitter?
(Sir) Digby Jones is quoted in the Guardian today saying that NGOs have become too powerful at Davos:"The pendulum is swinging too far in favour of the NGOs. The World Economic Forum is caving in to them. Davos has been hijacked by those who want business to apologise for itself."Or is it he worried that the NGOs have become more relevant to chief execs and world leaders than the CBI?
from : paulmiller
31st January 2005
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The lab is no more
Media Lab Europe is set to close reports The Register. Based just near the Guinness Brewery in Dublin it was meant as an outpost of the Media Lab in MIT but seems to have fallen foul of funders who were looking for more immediate commercialisation prospects [via John Naughton].
from : paulmiller
18th January 2005
