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Innovation

Innovation is the activity of people and organisations to change themselves and the environment.

In the News Teaching Activity – How much would it cost to reduce ocean plastic waste? (June 2026)

22nd June 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – How is climate change affecting the tea market? (May 2026)

18th May 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – Should Netflix be allowed to acquire Warner Bros? (Dec 2025)

11th December 2025
In the News Teaching Activity - Why have Dyson’s profits been falling? (Oct 2025)

6th October 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – Can technology help improve the productivity of land? (Sept 2025)

15th September 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – why are the government planning to create a ‘Silicon Valley’ in the UK? (Feb 2025)

3rd February 2025
What role does innovation play in determining profits in an industry?

Study Notes
What are the differences between sustaining & disruptive innovations?

Study Notes
How can economic growth bring environmental benefits?

Study Notes
Circular Economy - How the Royal Mint is Turning E-Waste into Treasure

9th August 2024
What is the true cost of electric cars?

19th June 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – is big tech causing environmental damage? (May 2024)

3rd June 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – how can the UK’s lacklustre productivity growth be improved? (Mar 2024)

18th March 2024
In the News Teaching Activity –the debate over the Labour party’s £28bn green investment pledge (Jan 2024)

15th January 2024
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)

Topic Videos
What is the difference between invention and innovation?

Study Notes
Is Tesla doing to the motor industry what Apple did to Nokia?

6th August 2023
What are cost-reducing innovations?

Study Notes
Innovation and Climate - Cooling our Cities without Air-Conditioning

10th March 2023
Wonderful examples of cross-industry innovations

18th February 2023
Explaining Creative Destruction

Topic Videos
What is Secular Stagnation?

Topic Videos
Plastic Packaging Tax (Revision Essay Plan)

Topic Videos
Innovation and Environmental Impact - Can new innovations reduce beer’s water usage?

9th February 2022
Contestable Markets (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Circular economy - the companies making stuff from CO2

7th December 2021
Innovation and Creative Destruction - The Rise And Fall Of Polaroid

24th August 2021
Innovations that help make the circular economy a reality

17th August 2021
The Geography of Innovation - How disruptive technologies diffuse

11th August 2021
UK Economy - Policy Focus - Innovation

Topic Videos
Do patents help or hinder innovation?

2nd October 2016
Elon Musk's Glass Roof

6th November 2016
Innovation: Mariana Mazzucato

30th November 2016
Cloud Fishing in Morocco

28th December 2016
Five industries under threat from creative destruction

28th December 2016
Comparative Advantage: China (Finally) Masters the BallPoint Pen

3rd February 2017
Patents

Study Notes
Innovation and Invention in Markets

Study Notes
Innovation and Government Policy

Study Notes
Economic Growth - Endogenous Growth Theory

Study Notes
Economic Growth - Human Capital

Study Notes
Economic Growth - Innovation

Study Notes
M-PESA - Technology and Growth

Study Notes
Market structures and innovation

Study Notes
Revision Video on Economic Growth in the UK

Topic Videos
Revision Presentation: Competitiveness in the Global Economy

Teaching PowerPoints
Competitiveness and Innovation

Study Notes
Competitiveness and Human Capital

Study Notes
Non Price Competition in Oligopoly

Topic Videos
What is Dynamic Efficiency?

Topic Videos
Sources of Comparative Advantage

Study Notes
How covid-19 is boosting innovation

11th March 2021
Supply side: UK to launch new 'high risk' science agency

19th February 2021
In Praise of Scientists

7th January 2021
Fish farms regenerating the environment

4th October 2020
Surge in innovation is silver living from Covid crisis

3rd July 2020
Greening the Economy - No Trade Off with Growth

23rd May 2020
Economics of the Crisis - Innovation [Head Start in A-Level Economics]

Topic Videos
Introduction to Supply Side Policies (Online Lesson)

Online Lessons
GSK and Sanofi join forces to research a vaccine

15th April 2020
How can we fund a Green New Deal?

28th November 2019
Jet fuel from thin air

3rd October 2019
Sweden leads the 2019 EU Innovation Rankings

21st June 2019
Technology and the innovation possibilities frontier

8th May 2019
Interventions to address environmental market failure

Study Notes
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

28th December 2018
Lessons on innovation from a 2018 Nobel Prize winner

18th October 2018
Out of the frying pan and into the ship

16th October 2018
Policies to Improve Labour Productivity

Study Notes
Innovation can challenge the digital monopolies

25th April 2018
Supply-Side Economics - Research and Development

Study Notes
Carbon: From Pollutant to Product

28th December 2017
Capitalism without capital

4th December 2017
51st thing that made the modern economy

25th September 2017
Dynamic Efficiency - Clothes that Grow with your Child

7th September 2017
The Changing Economics of the Book Industry

27th April 2017
Industry Evolution - Why Most Businesses Fail

19th April 2017
How the razor introduced us to two-part pricing

10th April 2017
Old Europe and the Innovation Crisis

14th June 2016
Innovative Monopolist vs Defensive Monopolists: Monopoly Power in the United Arab Emirates

27th April 2016
Nokia and the Multiplier Effect

24th March 2016
Ethical dilemmas facing Japanese academics

4th March 2016
Innovation in the Collective Brain

29th February 2016
Impact of competition in the mobile phone market

19th February 2016
Innovation Clusters as Drivers of Innovation

22nd February 2016
Tim Harford - How messy problems can inspire creativity

12th January 2016
Who were the world's most innovative companies in 2015?

6th January 2016
Innovation and Growth - the Entrepreneurial State

2nd September 2013
China at the Cutting Edge

19th September 2013
30 Most Innovative Countries in the World

24th January 2014
Footballs in Pakistan: An Innovation Story

30th May 2014
New series of short films on Economics

29th July 2014
Tim Harford on Monopoly and Innovation

27th August 2014
All we are saying: give capitalism a chance

16th November 2014
Creating markets in things that don't yet exist

24th November 2014
Does technological innovation increase unemployment?

24th November 2014
Why electric cars aren't always greener

26th December 2014
“Ricardo, Ricardo, that wonderful guy” - innovation, job losses and living standards

1st February 2015
Is The Raspberry Pi 2 an indication of an evolving UK Manufacturing sector?

3rd February 2015
Growing fast and growing slow - an anatomy of economic growth

18th February 2015
Can we escape the grip of secular stagnation?

9th March 2015
Building the Entrepreneurial State

2nd April 2015
Revision Presentation - International Competitiveness

29th May 2015
Shazam turns to image recognition

30th May 2015
A-Z of Disruptive Businesses

5th June 2015
Bill Gates Interview: Tax, Climate and Microsoft

26th June 2015
250 Years of Capitalism - Positives outweigh the Negatives

28th August 2015
Apple & Microsoft: Collaboration not Competition

10th September 2015
Disruptive technologies - 12 of the best

29th September 2015
Can China move beyond being an innovation sponge?

1st November 2015
Supply-side Economics: Commercialising University Research

10th November 2015
The UK Productivity Issue

15th November 2015