Crisis, opportunity and understanding innovation

Article by Paul Kirkham, researcher in the field of entrepreneurial creativity at Nottingham University Business School. “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change.” So wrote Milton Friedman, economist and Nobel Prize winner, in his highly influential Capitalism and Freedom, first published more than 50 years ago. This is, of course, palpable …

Flexible working for SMEs

Millions of employees now have the right to request flexible working. The new law which came into force on 30th June 2014 entitles any employee with 26 weeks’ service to ask for a range of flexible options, including compressed hours, 4-day weeks, working from home and job shares. In the July 2014 Business Barometer survey, …

Innovation, healthcare and hidden potential

Article by Simon Mosey, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Nottingham University Business School and Director of the Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The notion that more should be done with less is central to much of the debate that continues to swirl around the healthcare arena in general and the NHS in particular. …