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Dan Pritchard, co-founder of Tech South West

Dan Pritchard, Tech South West: "Collaboration is not about winning"

Alone or with others? A spark of insight in a crowded room or during a walk in the wild?

We all have different ways of working things through, getting creative, shaping our plans and actions. For me, collaboration is at the heart of what I strive for, helping build communities for brands. There is no other way. So it was great to talk with the alumni of GLIDE this week, a fantastic programme...

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A typical South West coastal scene - Port Isaac, Cornwall

Peter Evans: Now is the time for a South West regional investment fund

Sometimes a simple statistic can knock you sideways. Take this one from the British Business Bank (BBB): When broken down by local authority area, three of the top five locations for equity investment into South West businesses are London boroughs.

In other words, venture capital funds, business angel networks and individuals based in Westminster, Islington and Camden invest...

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10 Top Tips to Making Your Business More Sustainable – Without Becoming a Green Washer

Responding to climate change is a shared responsibility. September through to November, there are several events like Technology Live 2021, Climathon 2021 and the vast COP26 coming up which will magnify key environmental issues across different sectors, reinforcing the need for the commitment and the acceleration of purposeful governmental and corporate social responsibility initiatives....

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Insider tips: How Stratiphy smashed its crowdfunding target by 220%

Nikki Hawkes, co-founder of investment app Stratiphy , discusses the recently-closed crowdfunding campaign that saw her company raise more than £440,000 from 700 investors in 53 countries.

Stratiphy, which came through the South West’s SETsquared accelerator programme, lets users build trading strategies according to their risk appetite and sustainability criteria.

Why...

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Thoughts on why we speak to young girls differently than boys

Feyaza Khan: Why we need to talk to little girls like they're boys

I have two children, I’d like to tell you more about them and then I’d like you to decide what gender they are, from everything you've read.

Firstly, they are identical, in that they’re children and the world is new to them and they’re excited by it. But, they’re nothing like each other. Despite the fact they’re twins, they look very different, dress differently, think differently...

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A grey shot taken upwards at some high rise buildings in a financial district.

From Silence to Noise - the Path to Action in Sustainable Finance

Armen Papazian is a financial economist and the CEO of analytics platform Value XD . This post is an excerpt from his upcoming book due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the near future.

Beyond buzz words and broadly titled global targets and initiatives, the fact is, we are still thinking and crystallising the principles, equations, methodologies, data points, and...

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Matt Baker of Jurassic Fibre smiling at the camera, with a branded Jurassic Fibre van behind him

How digital connectivity can help South West food and drink businesses thrive

The South West food and drink industry is a key part of the identity of the region.

Matt Baker, Head of Business Sales at Jurassic Fibre, shares his views on how faster and more reliable broadband connections can help food and drink businesses thrive in the South West.

Fast and reliable connectivity for businesses in the digital age

South West businesses have seen a...

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Net Zero: Are local authorities being forced by the government to take actions into their own hands? And, if so, what should they do about it?

This article was originally published as a blog piece on cityscience.com

Working with and speaking to many local authorities, it is clear that there is huge ambition to show leadership on decarbonisation and take the action we need to avert a climate disaster. More than a third of local authorities (38%) have now committed to decarbonising their areas as early as 2030 - twenty years...

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How we can make the South West a hub of public sector technology excellence

The South West plays a key role in ensuring the UK’s public sector functions effectively. The region is home to some of the nation’s most important service providers, including HMRC, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Met Office, not to mention 36 local councils.

Like many private companies, these organisations are increasingly turning to technology to provide better,...

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The Uyuni Salt Flat, home to an estimated 17% of the world's lithium

Piers Corfield: What price the green technology revolution?

These days it is all but impossible to avoid being bombarded with news related to climate change or the consequences of global warming. The debate as to the extent to which this has been caused by mankind has raged for decades, but the scientific community has coalesced around a clear consensus: It is happening and it is accelerating.

To slow down or even reverse climate change, it...

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Opinion: Innovators are precious and must be protected

Innovators are innate risk takers and thus their courage to imagine, play, experiment and refine (often thousands of times as in the case of Thomas Edison, who spoke of the lightbulb having had 10,000 steps to success) deserve our respect as they risk everything. All innovators are standing on the shoulders of giants, perhaps best illustrated by the wheel (estimated to have been invented in...

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