Innovation Conversations

In one of my odder finds, I met Jonny in the Kids tent at the Curious Arts Festival in July this year. He’d been roped in to be on a panel…

I’ve known Ilya for a long time, and as my interest in innovation has grown, so his professional field has become ever more fascinating, so…

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His particular field of interest is the…

I joined the RSA a few years ago after I came across their work project on self-employment — as a recently self-employed professional, it…

I’ve been wanting to talk to Margaret ever since I saw her speak at the Vision conference in Bristol a few years ago, so I was incredibly…

I met Luke at the FEI Innovation Europe Conference in June, where he gave a great presentation about the challenges of running an…

The Museum of Innovation Failure enjoyed a lot of press coverage recently, which is how I first came across Samuel. But although I wanted…

For this conversation, I spoke to Antony Beckett, the Undergraduate Programme Director and Dave Jarman, Postgraduate Programme Co-Director…

In this second part of my interview with Antony and Dave, we discuss the University’s new innovation-focused degree programmes. I wish…

Talking to Nicola was a pleasure as it brought up a topic I hadn’t thought about for a while — system change and system design. I wrote…

Talking to Julie was inspiring — not just because Parkinson’s UK is an example of an organisation working with CAST to bring about a huge…

This was a great conversation — I met Michelle by chance at an event hosted by the lovely people at Boundless (ask them about their…

If there’s one organisation whose name is a byword for innovation right now, it’s probably Team Sky. In just six years, this professional…

Mark is an innovation consultant, founder of Ape Studios and the Do Lectures, a visiting fellow in sustainable design at University of…