- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
- Fatalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
- Civil Society
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- Nov 07, 2020