Experts in innovation fail to innovate

Originally posted @ 8:16 am, Tue 23rd Sep 2008

I've often heard that the fringe meetings are more interesting, but although there's more chance to have a say, listening to journalists and opinion formers is often dull, especially compared to politicians.

So it was with an IPPR meeting. I've found some of their briefings pertinent and useful in the past, but the meeting on innovation let the speakers drone on without sufficient focus or discipline; and then sought to reduce the audience to questions only.

All very ironic when the theme of the meeting was supposed to be innovation.

And some of the innovative ideas? From the right - introduce even more markets disciplines into school funding schemes – passé and wasteful. And celebrate heroes - OK, but there's a lot more to success than that.

The campaigning innovation for me this year has been the "You Tube" "Labour:Vision" exercise and I have now started to post video replies to interviews made 11 days ago at Swadlincote.