One of my colleagues at NESTA informed me that the total amount of UK venture capital dedicated to tech startups is just 1.6% of the total amount of money invested by UK VC every year. That’s shockingly low.
My blog post about it over on the NESTA blogs generated quite a flurry of response… have a look here for the full story.
I can’t believe it, but I am going to link to Microsoft…
A post I wrote on the NESTA blogs about the winner of Microsoft’s Design IT competition, which is a screensaver created by user-generated content designed to help Alzheimer’s sufferers store their personal memories:
The screensaver is a simple application with the “why didn’t I think of that” factor: a carer and person with dementia can upload text, video and photos to the screensaver to help them remember important people, moments and facts about their lives. It’s great when an existing technology like this can be adopted and put to good use…
Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >>
A little comment I wrote on the NESTA blogs about the constant stream of mixed and confusing messages we are bombarded with these days:
Two stories which resonated with me this morning…
1) A colleague forwarded this nugget from popb*tch:
An avatar in Second Life has a larger carbon footprint than the average Brazilian2) Slashdot commented on the world’s biggest digital dump, where Chinese locals harvest the gold, copper and other valuable parts within discarded PCs from the West.
How should I feel about these things? It’s a confusing state, as both coins have 2 sides…
Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >>
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