The academics learning to become entrepreneurs

Petrofac goes bust: Around 2,000 jobs in Scotland are at risk after North Sea oilfield services group Petrofac filed for administration, says Philip Georgiadis in the Financial Times. The trigger was

Canada’s critical mineral drive: Canada’s energy minister Tim Hodgson (pictured) has announced 25 critical minerals investments and partnerships as it “races to develop” $4.6bn worth of projects to co

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Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

Earlier this month the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to three academics noted for exploring the two most urgent practical questions in their discipline: why do economies grow, and how can we h