What do Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff Ice and Guinness all have in common? They are all made by Diageo, which is one of the worlds largest drinks company who recently hosted an LFIG business reception with Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chief
“The first step in winning the future,” declared President Obama, “is encouraging American innovation”. So how is the UK doing in the area of winning the future? Sadly, the answer is, “not very well” as evidenced by the feeble patent
The economic slump is not going away. The Coalition government likes to say that the glue holding it together is its commitment to eliminating the structural public deficit over four years. But its confidence that deficit reduction alone boosts private
Innovation – who can argue with that? If it promises to make our world a better place, it would rightly get a full show of hands. But patents, drafting patents, filing patents and prosecuting patents – what’s exciting about that?