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All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Geoff Mulgan

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Geoff Mulgan
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
Economist
Writer
Letting
Innovation
Saying
Create
Space
Things
Goodbye

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I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.
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Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
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Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.
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The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
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The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
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The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.
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Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
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Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
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Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
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Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
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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.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
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Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
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In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
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The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.
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As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
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