In 2016 we hosted our ninth
Inspire Innovate
Conference on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 March at the award-winning
ANZ Stadium,
Sydney Olympic Park.
Website:
http://inspireinnovate.nsw.edu.au/
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Charles Leadbeater is a renowned author, thinker and strategic adviser on innovation whose advice is sought by governments, cities and corporations
across the world.
Charlie’s expertise is about how these organisations respond to and make the most of the current upheaval, the tensions and the opportunities it creates.
We are living in a time of stagnovation – stagnation combined with relentless innovation and rising inequality.
The New York Times anointed Charlie’s idea, The Pro-Am
Revolution, referenced extensively by
Chris Anderson in his landmark book
The Long Tail, as one of the biggest global ideas of the last decade. Charlie’s
TED talks on innovation have been watched by well over a million people.
The Spectator Magazine described him as “the wizard of the web” after the publication of his bestseller “We
Think: mass innovation not mass production” which forecast the rise of more collaborative, open forms of innovation made possible by the web. The YouTube animation based on the book has been watched by more than
300,
000 people.
The Financial Times described Charlie as the outstanding innovation expert in the UK. A past winner of the prestigious
David Watt Prize for journalism, Charlie was assistant editor at the
Independent newspaper after a distinguished career at the
Financial Times, where he was
Labour Editor,
Industrial Editor and
Tokyo Bureau Chief.
Charlie went on to become a key adviser to
Prime Minister Blair’s policy team (he was
Tony Blair’s favourite global thinker) and the
Department of Trade and Industry, specialising in the impact of the
Internet and the knowledge driven economy. He drafted the
UK Government’s
White Paper – Our Competitive
Future:
Building the
Knowledge Driven Economy which was one of the first policy papers in the world to argue that advanced economies would become increasingly dependent upon innovation for growth.
Charlie is a long standing senior research associate with
Demos, the influential
London think tank; a co-founder of Participle, the leading public services innovation agency, which is working with public sector agencies to create next generation public services and a visiting fellow at the
National Endowment for
Science Technology and the Arts, where he has championed ideas of open and user driven innovation. Charlie is co-chairman of the social enterprise Apps 4
Good, one of the first charities to be granted a license to make
Facebook apps which has recently caught the attention of the
White House.
He has a track record for spotting ideas ahead of time.
The Rise of the
Social Entrepreneur, published in
1997, for example, was one of the first books to predict social enterprise solutions to public problems would become more compelling.
Social entrepreneurship has since become a global movement. Charlie gave a keynote address at the inaugural Skoll
World Forum on
Social Entrepreneurship in
Oxford.
His work ranges widely over innovation in the private, public and social sectors. In
Learning from the
Extremes, a widely read report he published in 2009, Charlie looked at the way social entrepreneurs are using technology to create new low cost approaches to learning in the slums and favelas of the developing world. From a new position working on health innovation with
Imperial College London he is looking at the way new, low cost and distributed models of health care are emerging in the developing world.
Charlie’s latest book, The Frugal Innovator, analyses the spread of super low cost, simple, robust and shared solutions to pressing social challenges. The Frugal Innovator looks at how the global dynamics of innovation are shifting during the downturn with more new products being devised for and with relatively poor consumers of the developing world.
- published: 08 Apr 2016
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