A modest proposal
Date: 16/05/2010
What do we want?
The chop for Nesta.
When do we want it?
Now!
As the post-election tide of surprise, dismay, disbelief, guarded optimism, recrimination and rather pleasing lack of triumphalism washes over us:
Dear David and Nick,
Can we please have a rapid winding-up of the useless money-pit that is Nesta? (For those unfamiliar with the saga, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Set up to help inventors, now won’t touch them with a barge pole. See umpteen earlier blogs.)
Instead, can we please have some urgent recognition that individuals can be engines of innovation and enterprise, and that they deserve better support and encouragement than they get at present.
Are we to be a society that supports enterprise? If so, let’s see a lot more help for inventors. Carry on supporting innovative SMEs by all means, but don’t carry on behaving as though innovation can only come from companies and universities.
Don't ignore the efforts of lone grassroots innovators just because they’re not yet businesses, or not yet investment ready, or too far from market, or too close to market, or too [insert some other excuse]. Good ideas start with individuals, even within companies and universities. Encourage and support individuals with demonstrably good ideas and innovative new businesses will follow.
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Reply From: John Biddleston
Date: 14/06/2010
I for one can't wait for the dissolution of the RDAs!
For years they have been professing help for inventors, but have led us to running round bloated quango's and a massive waste of public money and our time.
I'm thinking of setting up a blog to discuss the corruption that extends right the way through RDAs, the DTI and is responsible for these outrageously incompetent people.
John
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