Monthly Archives: May 2013
Digital Shoreditch – An Interesting Festival
If you are a techie/a social media junkie or someone like me who is interested in the link between digital, innovation and place there is a really interesting week coming up in Shoreditch – titled Digital Shoreditch. A week focussing on Tech City Tomorrow’s World – what’s coming up round the corner Future Brands – […]
Greater Birmingham’s Strategy for Growth: A step forward
An ambitious plan for the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership was launched today. I will review this in the next few days but on a quick look, it is an advance of where we were, but it is tentative on the how, tentative on what is needed to happen and how it will […]
Measuring Innovation in Europe – How the UK and West Midlands fare
Originally posted on Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands:
Recently the EU published two major documents on Innovation within the EU. Firstly the 2013 Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) (download here) which looks at EU and national performance on Innovation and secondly the 2012 Regional Innovation Scoreboard (download here) which attempts albeit with fewer datasets to look…
Inspirational Videos on City Planning and Transportation Approaches
I come across a lot of videos that really inspire me and give me confidence that we can positively change our urban environments and economies. I thought it would be good to collate them in one place – so here they are. I will add to this post over time. Please let me know if […]
UrbanPivot 