At last – after many months of difficult development, the Economic Policy Centre , the think tank which I am proud to be Chief Executive of, is launching today a new ground-breaking platform – www.ukcrimestats.com UKCrimeStats is the UK’s only crime ranking platform for neighbourhoods, Police Forces and Streets with maps, analysis and reports – starting with this one here – Decoding the Crime Data Dec 10 to Feb 11. I don’t know why crime isn’t researched by economists more [...]
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Writing in the Yorkshire Post today, I described what was wrong with typical regional policy and how to do it much better. I suggested doing effective, boring and unpopular stuff like moving workers to the work (not the other way round) with more low cost roads and buses and paying lower wages and benefits in poorer areas to increase employment. This would do so much more than taking a bet on low-return but glamorous infrastructure projects like high speed rail [...]
Categories: Economics, Innovation
Under the aegis of Future Energy Strategies, I’ve organised an evening seminar on 20th January 2011 which seeks to answer this question, with the help of these three experts – Leigh Bolton of Holmwood Consulting, Nick Grealy of No Hot Air and Dr John Buggenhagen of San Leon Energy plc. To attend, please see here for details – it promises to be a fascinating evening. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers [...]
Categories: Energy, Innovation
HSBC is telling all its customers to download this programme – Trusteer Rapport. Unfortunately, it never occured to them to do the work and check for programme compatability with major software for small business customers. And www.gotomypc.com is very clearly not compatible – my pc is completely unaccesible ! It doesn’t help that Trusteer support said to me today that there is “a known problem with gotomypc” but fails to make it known to the wider world anywhere on their [...]
Categories: Innovation
It’s here! The Global State of Carbon Capture and Storage 2009 A one-stop report for all you need to know on CCS. What is happening, what are the technologies, what are the problems, where are the opportunities? Read it at Future Energy Strategies Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Categories: Energy, Environment, Innovation
