General
08/10/2025

Modern urban living for an older generation

Following my flow of thinking about innovation and an ageing population, I saw this article on Tomorrow City titled RETHINKING URBAN MOBILITY FOR AN OLDER EUROPE. There’s a lot of myths and misunderstanding about the concept of the 15 minute city, usually boiled down as oppressive anti-car policies by the left wing, but it’s about us, going about our lives with amenities within walking or […]

General Innovation Parks and Centres
27/09/2025

Invest Somerset Digital Showcase event

Held at the Firepool Centre for Digital Innovation, the Invest Somerset Digital Showcase event was to share Somerset Council’s Economic Prosperity Strategy 2025-2045, and to have various local organisations and businesses take part in panel discussions and present workshops. The video includes a short interview with Councillor David Woan, Somerset Council Associate Lead Member for Business Partnerships. He summarises the strategy and goals. He also […]

Bridport housing project in Dorset
General
05/09/2025

Co-housing project in Dorset, wellbeing innovation

I have touched previously on the opportunity that Dorset could have in being a living lab for growing older and improvements in wellbeing. I certainly believe this region should have investments made in leading that research and innovation. This article is about a co-housing project in Dorset. BBC News article on Dorset co-housing project. Living around people, the daily contact, the volunteering and participation all […]

Stuart Laws
General
04/07/2025

UK Defence Innovation – UKDI

The UK government has announced the launch of an organisation tasked with bring technological innovations to the armed forces, at pace. UK Strategic Command is also being renamed as the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) from 1 September 2025. This shows very clearly the importance of cyber as part of the military mission of today. Stuart Laws, Innovation Lead at MOD, was at the […]

General
20/04/2025

Co:Create – showing innovation and collaboration at AUB and BU

On Thursday 17 April 2025, an event held was held at both the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) and Bournemouth University (BU) campuses around innovation. Called Co:Create, this was to showcase the great work happening at those two universities and their Innovation Centres. The Spark is a concept, a community, an idea and goal of Dan Ware to bring some collective positivity and support to the […]

Tony Mears holding up his book, Innovation is Dead.
General
19/04/2025

Tony Mears – NHS healthcare innovation must look outside

Introduction to Tony Mears It’s a provocative statement to make, to say that Innovation is Dead. Heck, why not go all the way and make it the title of your book, especially if that is your role. Is NHS innovation dead too? His found can be found at this website: https://www.innovationisdead.com Starting off with a degree in archaeology might be a strange starting point compared to […]