

Corporate strategies to accelerate innovation through partnership, collaboration and competition
In today’s fast-moving digital era, corporates can keep up with emerging and rapidly growing startups through partnership, collaboration...


Fintech partnerships in the Open Banking era
There are both positive and negative outlooks regarding partnership prospect between incumbent banks and fintech startups. There is a...


The Cambridge Cluster: Why are there very few large firms?
Cambridge has been acknowledged as one of the world’s leading high-tech business clusters. It is currently home to over 1,500 high-tech...


Co-working: Not Just Spaces but Also Technologies
In recent years, a phenomenon has shown that members of coworking space not only co-work but co-innovate products and services. By...


The Myth of Co-working in Co-working Spaces
In the latest decade, a new working form—co-working, has become popular in startup communities as well as Small and medium-sized...


Production v Consumption: what drives workers to our cities today?
Human capital has long been recognised to be a key driver of modern economic growth (Florida, 2002). This is based on the idea that the...

Knowledge sharing across organisations (II): How blockchains provide incentives to jointly solve bus
Blockchains – frequently associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies – can provide valuable incentive schemes to share knowledge...

Knowledge sharing across organisations (I): How and why collaboration will always be limited
The digital world affects everyone yet is incredibly difficult to understand. Take Artificial Intelligence (AI), for example. While there...


Looking outside: Why global pipelines are needed for a healthy innovation ecosystem
An innovation ecosystem could be described as encompassing economic actors within the research and commercial economy, that are linked...


Standing on the shoulders of broken links: The Knowledge Commons in the face of the internet
All of those who have studied economics at any level will have been introduced to the concept of the commons. A Commons is a resource,...