LOCKDOWN DEBATE: Matt Ridley discusses his new book in conversation with Rob Lyons. Innovation is key to economic growth and the improvement of human welfare. In his new book, How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley examines how new technologies, products and medical advances come about. He notes that innovation is more than mere invention - the aim is not simply to create an interesting new device, for example, but to produce something that is genuinely useful and widely available. What drives innovation? Is he right to conclude that we cannot speed up innovation through central direction? What are the barriers to greater innovation now and in the future? Matt Ridley and Rob Lyons discuss.
Book Launch: How fear works - Professor Frank Furedi in conversation with Claire Fox
#BattleFest2017: The international abortion wars
#BattleFest2017: Are science and medicine threatened by borders?
#BattleFest2017: Medical dilemmas - who decides?
#BattleFest2017: Xi’s China - new global power?
#BattleFest2017: Silicon Valley - from heroes to zeroes?
#BattleFest2017: Was it Big Data wot won it? Political campaigning today
#BattleFest2017: Safety first - do we live in a ’cotton-wool society’?
#BattleFest2017: Putin’s Russia - a new Cold War?
#BattleFest2017: From Sandy Hook to Boston: guns, bombs and a changing America
#BattleFest2017: The corruption of political language
#BattleFest2017: Diversity - does it matter?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Presidents’ Club dinner, Brexit and the ’war on plastic’
#BattleFest2017: Do you trust the media?
#BattleFest2017: Millennials - youthquake or snowflakes?
#BattleFest2017: Can biotech lead an economic revolution?
#BattleFest2017: Is globalisation over? The future of world trade
#BattleFest2017: In the wake of Weinstein - #MeToo, calling out and sexual harassment
#BattleFest2017: From AI to Big Data - can technology save the NHS?
#BattleFest2017: Free speech for me, but not for thee
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