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by Alec PattonI found the following sentence (which I’ve truncated for the sake of clarity) in a government evaluation document:Preparations… to develop the vision for transforming learning with schools are developing in a timely way.<>This strikes me as rather beautifully absurd, like saying of <>St</></>... more

by Alec PattonSo, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner have written a sequel to Freakonomics, which they’ve called Superfreakonomics, and they’re getting a lot of press for being ‘contrarian’ on climate change (you can read the relevant chapter here).<>Nobel laureate and economics hero Paul Krugman has</>... more

By Peter Baeck<>Yesterday I attended the LSE seminar ’Innovating out of the recession in the NHS’. One of the speakers at the seminar was Jim Easton, NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency at DoH. Easton’s job is to save 20 billion between 2011 and 2014, and at the same time improve q</>... more

by Alec Patton<>A bunch of us at the Innovation Unit cycle all or part of the way to work, so we have a personal stake in making sure drivers are aware that they share the road with cyclists. So we’re pleased to read in Debra Rolfe’s  Guardian Cycle Blog piece  about  Stop-SMIDSY.org.uk – a crowd-s</>... more

by Alec PattonIt’s less than a week until the Innovation In Education conference that we’re running with the Guardian, and it’s looking very exciting!<>Speakers include Larry Rosenstock, CEO of High-tech High (not a Saturday morning cartoon but a seriously innovative cluster of schools in Californi</>... more

by Alec Patton There’s a really nice, concise blog post on the Nesta Connect blog by Roland Harwood, on barriers to open innovation. Check it out here more

by Alec PattonLast week, I posted about Why Twitter is Good for Conferences. Now that the conference has happened, it turns out that Twitter is much more exciting, unpredictable, and anarchic than I’d anticipated.<>To give a flavour of what it looked like, I’ve created an edited version of the twit</>... more