Richard Jones

A really interesting episode, highlighting the paradox that UK ranks as no 4 on the global innovation index, yet it's close to bottom of the leave on productivity growth. V good discussion digging below the aggregate, highlighting both UK's strengths & weaknesses in innovation.

“In many sectors this is the way globalisation works: a small handful of companies are responsible for the world’s production of a single widget” Great piece on the detailed texture of globalisation:the world economy is even more interdependent than simple trade figures suggest.

Important & rightly praised thread on why UK's problem is lack of demand for skilled people, not lack of supply. Result of chronic underinvestment in UK & resulting economic stagnation Some important additional context: post-GFC divergence in economic performance between UK & USA

Just finished @mjohnharrison’s marvellous new book. Essential reading for all of us who have suffered “the blunt force trauma of having reached the future”.

An interesting thread on the semiconductor strategy from @ProfRachelGaN - but it does emphasise that this is really science policy rather than industrial strategy (the former, of course, being much cheaper than the latter).