The Great Global Refinery
Previously we have looked at the economic behaviour of an enterprise through an evolutionary prism used more commonly in biology. Now we extend this approach with a physics analogy to recognise enterprise…
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When the worm turns How we reinforce past choices
David Rawlings poses the question: if the reality of “control” turns out to be different from the promise will people change their minds? Left-wing or right-wing. Socialist or capitalist. Brexiter or Remainer….
Robotics: Beauty and the Beast
Will humans soon be dreaming of electric sheep, asks James Fitzgerald. Beyond the angry headlines on immigration lies a more subtle movement that promises to usher in a population explosion – of…
Trade negotiating reality check
Soon Britain will be going it alone on trade at a time of resurgent protectionism. A parliamentary committee has been told it is ill-equipped for the challenge of quickly finding export markets,…
Scotland in the EU – the UK’s successor state?
The sudden glow of goodwill from Brussels suggests that when the going gets serious the European Union will be on Scotland’s side, writes Murray Ritchie. Two issues have become central to the…
The awakening of a new nuclear power
In the early, halcyon days of nuclear power, British prowess in engineering enjoyed some of its finest hours. Here was a clean power and an unlimited resource that the country had the…
The big read: Plant gene – turn on, tune in, or drop out?
A regulatory system that is as clear as mud to many crop producers and the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union will raise new questions, says James Fitzgerald. A middle ground…
Canada and the EU tie the knot
The European Union is opening the doors to freer trade at precisely the moment that free trade is under the most serious threat since the Great Depression, writes Geoff Kitney Amid an…
A new economics for an age of innovation
Prosperity, health, longevity – all good things in principle but they come with a cost. In this major new section of Chief-Exec.com we seek to discover how society can pay the bill…
For a fairer, united, outward looking future
Prime Minister Theresa May must do more than utter platitudes because the future of the UK’s young is too important, writes National Union of Students’ representative, Mike Day. The United Kingdom Parliament…