We are not simply facing the short-term costs of an economic downturn, but the consequences of an ageing, unsustainably consuming and carbon-dependent society. This situation should indeed make governments, businesses and charities furiously innovative; generating creative new ideas by the bucket-load, then testing them and refining the ones that don’t work out.
The RSA is ideally placed to look into the research the best in innovation and to show how new ideas are successfully introduced.
