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Geoff Mulgan
English
Educator
Born:
1961
Come
Every
Good
Government
Innovation
People
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Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
Geoff Mulgan
Innovation
Crime
Benefit
Systematic
Find
Invest
Development
New
Accept
Still
Governments
Child
Just
Just As Much
Might
Cutting
Much
Hard
Such Things
Billions
Things
Hardware
Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
Geoff Mulgan
Creativity
Solitary
Lots
Should
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
Geoff Mulgan
Work
Best
Technology
Musicians
Together
People
Better
Problems
Own
Other
Extreme
Would
Solve
Best Work
Composers
Seeing
Networks
Almost
Ideas
Greatest
Doing
Link
Than
Get
Just
Confinement
Fields
Them
Certainly
Uses
Many
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
Geoff Mulgan
Government
Technology
Made
Understanding
Valley
City
London
Silicon
Vast
Never
Investment
Knowledgeable
Known
Matched
Tradition
Been
Just
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
Geoff Mulgan
Respect
Integrity
Commitment
People
Values
Example
Virtues
Those
Moral
Distrust
For Example
Return
Yearning
Greatly
Who
Businessmen
Agree
Display
Even
Elementary
Necessarily
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.
Geoff Mulgan
Book
Innovation
Way
Tablet
Make
Exercise
Replacing
Just
Different
Notes
Different Way
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
Geoff Mulgan
Politics
Religion
Business
Society
Entrepreneurship
Idea
Does
Arts
Much
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.
Geoff Mulgan
Collective
Market
Out
Case
Just
Just One
Decision-Making
Turns
Special
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
Geoff Mulgan
Recycling
Collar
Jobs
Sexy
Cost
Area
Could
Very
Green
Where
Low
Low-Cost
Created
Workers
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
Geoff Mulgan
Nothing
Think
Everybody
Worse
Than
Where
Agreed
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
Geoff Mulgan
Dark
Bit
Out
About
Physically
Parliament
Like
Very
Being
Heavy
Depressing
Much
Found
States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.
Geoff Mulgan
News
Communicate
Values
States
Citizens
Directly
Through
Messages
Commentary
Where
Which
Used
Media
Now
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