An insider's guide to the innovation ecosystem

 Innovation is crucial for improving quality of life and clearing away ossified and unhelpful ways of doing and being, like fossil fuel capitalism. So how do we get it moving? The innovation ecosystem of a nation, a region, or even the world is a complex network of physical infrastructure, human capital, industrial policy, and R&D centres among other things. If any part of the network grows weak, it can drag down the whole system. Here to help us navigate this environment is Halima Jibril, Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Warwick Business School. She is Co-Investigator on the £7million Innovation and Research Caucus funded by United Kingdom Research and Innovation. We could not have a better guide. 

• Halima's website:

https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/halima-jibril/    

• H Jibril, A Kaltenbrunner, E Kesidou (2018), Financialisation and innovation in emerging economies: Evidence from Brazil.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/181485/1/fmm-imk-wp-27-2018.pdf 

• Ivan Vendrov Podcast: Robin Hansen on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift (2026)

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/robin-hanson-on-cultural-evolution 

• Help to Grow: Digital, Department for Business and Trade (2024)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/help-to-grow-digital-evaluation-report 

• AI Upskilling fund, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (2024

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flexible-ai-upskilling-fund  

• Mazzucato on governments taking equity stake in R&D firms is in her book:

https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state/ 

• French government R&D incentives:

https://www.abgi-uk.com/news-resources/innovation-funding-incentives-france/ 

• Halima Jibril, Carol Stanfield, Stephen Roper (2020), What drives productivity growth behind the frontier? A mixed-methods investigation into UK SMEs

https://www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk/publications/what-drives-productivity-growth-behind-the-frontier-a-mixed-methods-investigation-into-uk-smes-research-paper-no-89/ 

• The Lupe Vacuum cleaner is sadly discontinued: 

https://vacuumwars.com/lupe-technology-closes-a-loss-to-the-vacuum-industry/