Hancock’s willingness to embrace such innovation is encouraging, and will bring sizeable benefits.
“Today over half of the UK’s resident researcher population were born overseas. When we leave the European Union, I will ensure that does not change.”
As I set out in my report, my challenge to the NHS is to move all GP surgeries and hospitals from being paper-first to digital-first organisations over the next 10 years.
To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.
What is the objective of higher education if it does not play a major role in addressing our country’s skills deficit?
Free enterprise has huge benefits. But more than that, it is intensely democratic, open and diverse – breaking down monopolies, hierarchies and outdated practices.
“A Britain fit for the future” might sound a bit exhausting, but it is achievable – if Ministers avoid the pitfalls of the past.
The Chancellor should also support life-long learning through training vouchers, and offer tax breaks for politically independent trade unions.
No matter the size of the economy, or the early advantages a country might enjoy, the consequences of inaction or an anti-innovation policy platform are disastrous.
That means explaining the benefits in day to day life, and preparing an appropriate regulatory structure to deliver them.
My new project takes inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt, who saved American capitalism from itself.
The 4IR should not be framed as people versus machines. It can – and should be – people empowered by machines.
The second piece in the author’s series on the coming economic revolution proposes a series of policies to turbo-charge the post-Brexit economy.
The first piece of our series on the coming economic revolution urges the Government to challenge Corbyn’s Luddite approach.
Money would go from one person through a bureaucracy to another person in the same household – who probably holds a joint bank account with the first person.