The genesis of something new is called an innovation.
Every feature added to a custom built thing is called an innovation.
The creation of a product from what was once custom built is called an innovation.
Every product to utility business model is called an innovation.
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Every feature added to a custom built thing is called an innovation.
The creation of a product from what was once custom built is called an innovation.
Every product to utility business model is called an innovation.
...
... all four of those things are wildly different, requiring different skills, different attitudes, different financing, different methods .... they are all however called the same thing.
Innovation
It is a dreadful word. Mostly useless ...
Innovation
It is a dreadful word. Mostly useless ...
... which is why is so pleasing to see the EU start to consider context, to do a bit of mapping in its recent strategy work.
Which brings me to the UK Innovation Strategy - gov.uk/government/pub… ...
Which brings me to the UK Innovation Strategy - gov.uk/government/pub… ...
... there are some pleasing bits like the focus on skills or directing "innovation" towards our top societal missions ... but overall, there is no contextual awareness, no maps, no strategy worth the name.
Even our top picks only include three which we are truly world class ...
Even our top picks only include three which we are truly world class ...
*Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
* Bioinformatics and Genomics
• Engineering Biology
The rest, well let us face it ... we have to consider what we're up against in China and others.
There was lots of nods to diffusion ...
* Bioinformatics and Genomics
• Engineering Biology
The rest, well let us face it ... we have to consider what we're up against in China and others.
There was lots of nods to diffusion ...
... i..e how different financial approaches are needed in the diffusion of a product or service but that's diffusion not the evolution of a market. It's as different in biology ... a virus diffuses but it also evolves. Related but no the same thing. 
When China publishes its five year plans, you see that they focused on how the market is evolving, where to attack, connections between the components in the value chain ... the UK, it feels like an effing story made in pub which someone has gone out to find supporting data ...
... oh, and the "We are creating a truly innovator-friendly agile regulatory system" ... I am surprised you didn't want to blockchain it, maybe with a bit of digital transformation?
So, I had been looking forward to it. Now I've read it, I'm not looking forward ... period.
There are some aspects which I do like - focus on societal missions (assuming you can pick the right ones), focus on skills, more regional development and the use of freeports. There is the occassional spark that makes me smile.
But I feel uninspired.
But I feel uninspired.
I think @ChiOnwurah comment fairly sums up my view -
https://twitter.com/ChiOnwurah/status/1418250439770923009
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