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Sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor
Johan Bruneel
talks
about the Innovation,
Entrepreneurship
and Design course at
the Business School,
which brings together
engineers, academics,
MBA students and
designers from the
Royal College of Art,
who work together for
six months to come up
with a fully operational
business plan.
Executive Education: A chance to think
Professor Nelson
Phillips
extols the
virtues of Executive
Education as providing
“one of the few
occasions when
corporate leaders get
the chance to actually
think and reflect upon
their management and
leadership styles”.
,
Innovative Capital growth
Professor David Gann
talks about the next wave of
innovation, why London’s Tech City is at the heart of
this and how university incubators, such as Imperial
Incubator, are helping to capitalise on this talent.
CNBCmagazine,
June 2012
Silicon Sally
Research co-authored by Dr Pantelis Koutroumpi
is used in this discussion about whether digital
economies grow faster than analogue ones. The
research looks at how digitalisation and growth
are correlated, and uses a wider mix of digitisation
metrics than previous rankings.
European buyouts hit hard
Private equity dealmakers are sitting on their hands,
unwilling to sell their companies until the euro zone
stabilizes and debt markets improve enough to
support higher prices, according to a study from the
Centre for Management Buy-Out Research, whose
Director is Professor Mike Wright.
The Wall Street Journal,
6 July 2012
Universal Health Care
Shouldn’t Be Reduced
“Programs such as Medicare for senior citizens
and Medicaid for the poor in the U.S. and similar
programs in other countries led to increased use
of preventive, inpatient and outpatient services
and better health status for previously uninsured
populations”, according to Professor Peter Smith and
Dr Rodrigo Moreno-Serra.
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BUSINESS
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2012 – 2013
