Category Archives: Innovation

Sleep promotion takes off globally

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Nicholas Gruen

I recently published this musing in my Substack newsletter. And coming across a further free kick from the policy world — something that would have negative costs and do a lot of good — I thought I’d publish both. Think … Continue reading →

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Democracy: doing it for ourselves

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Nicholas Gruen

Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I reproduce (AI generated) timestamps in the shownotes of the video below. 00:00 – Introduction and Overview … Continue reading →

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The David Solomon Lecture: Government 2.0 a couple of years on . . .

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Nicholas Gruen

Finding a formatting mess when I looked this up on Troppo, I’ve reposted it here for the record. I’m a bit embarrassed by my wooden speaking style. Here’s the David Solomon Lecture I’ll be giving at the Brisbane Museum of … Continue reading →

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A metaphor, a hack, a ladder: On the difficulty of telling yourself the truth

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Nicholas Gruen

I wrote a couple of pieces for apolitical a few years ago, but didn’t persevere. I then got an invitation to discuss my experience with the inevitable internal review and had a good discussion. Saying that apolitical seemed very optimised … Continue reading →

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Metaphysical Animals: a feminist masterpiece?

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Nicholas Gruen

‘A wonderful, important and also a necessary book, which sets the records straight… and celebrates a remarkable quartet of women thinkers’  Peter Conradi I’ve previously mentioned the two books on the Golden Age of female philosophy at Oxford and how … Continue reading →

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Me on investing and innovation policy at #Tech23

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Nicholas Gruen

In 2011 I think it was, I presented Kaggle to Tech23 an organisation that held an annual awards and rewards process for the best start-ups. It was a cool thing then and it’s great that it’s still going. However it … Continue reading →

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Practical steps towards Ivan Illich’s world

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Nicholas Gruen

I. Introduction Owing to quite a bit of recent hoopla about him, I’ve recently been reading Ivan Illich. Like the Molière character who discovers he’s been speaking prose his whole life, I discover I’ve been thinking a little like Illich for … Continue reading →

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