An economy that provides the conditions to develop new ideas whose value can be traded, for example, by the design and production of high-value goods and services. It contrasts with an economy that is focused primarily on production using existing ideas.
Ice cream a dream.
...as Susan Boyle might have sung. On SocialEnterpriselive.com this week:
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- Not one but two great videos with Dave Dawes on innovation in health
- The big brains of social investment on bubble burstings
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- Critical Mass Event - Leeds Homeless Link
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- Supporting homeless people into work: conference Homeless Link
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- My question to Oscar Pistorious as published in The Guardian 07.02.2012 In The Loop
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- Update on OxfordJam Ben Metz blog
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