For most of us the 80/20 rule provides an uncannily accurate measure of events - and the world of business is no exception. So I was expecting this effect, known as the Pareto principle, to rear its head as I was reading Goldman Sach's recent report...

This year's budget could scarcely be painted onto a worse economic backdrop: a falling pound, the shock bailout of Cypriot banks and the crumbling of the Chancellor's credibility in the face of the oft-predicted downgrading of the UK's cherished - and supposedly untouchable - triple A credit rating.

So...

It was with no surprise that I read Dame Sally Davies' comments on the dire threat posed by antibiotic resistance earlier this week. She highlighted, quite rightly, the scale of the problem of over-use and under-investment in the next generation of treatments. This is a subject dear to my heart....

So the latest GDP figures show what we had all feared: that the Government's prescription to jolt the economy back to full health has failed and we are heading towards an unprecedented triple dip recession.

To my mind this just confirms that the fair economic winds of...

When I heard that Vince Cable was coming to UCL spinout, Space Syntax - the company behind the map of East London used in the opening ceremony of the Olympics - to announce more funding to get academic research out onto the market and benefitting the...

It's a rare thing to hear a resounding success story for UK Plc nowadays. Yet Tech City, the Government's anointed digital and media hub in East London, is just that. Over the weekend, one of the Prime Minister's closest advisers, Rohan Silva, was talking up the...

Britain's haul of gold medals in the Olympics has changed the nation's perceptions of our small island: we can emphatically be winners. Now is the time to celebrate Britain's success across more than just sport - our country, and London in particular, has quietly become one of the most amazing...

At a time of economic and financial crisis, we should expect our universities to carefully consider what they can do to make the UK a more compelling place to carry out business. This is not an abstract notion: universities up and down the land are taking on the challenge to...

Abolishing the 50p tax rate, a mansion tax, slashing fuel duty - speculation has been rife in the last few weeks on the surprises which might be in this year's Budget. Undoubtedly these are all important changes which will affect people quite significantly, if enacted. Yet behind the headlines and...

Our economy has had its fair share of adrenaline shots in recent years, but nothing yet to get us out of intensive care.

No wonder, then, that the government has commissioned the Wilson Review in an attempt to make the UK the best place in the world for business and...