Dan Lewis

Category: Innovation

  • Latest paper – based on a talk in Berlin last September 2012

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    I really enjoyed being in Berlin (or rather Potsdam) last September and presenting this paper to a conference organised by the excellent Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung Fuer die Freiheit – the think tank of the of German Liberal Democrat Party. And full marks to them for having an excellent url www.freiheit.org – i.e. freedom.org ! It’s not…

  • Space Tourism

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    I’ve got a number of policy/personal interests; energy, crime data, tennis and space – and a couple of new platforms that I will be revealing soon. Following my paper for the IoD on Space: Britain’s New Infrastructure Frontier back in May, here’s a link to a video which I only just discovered on the BBC website interviewing me about…

  • www.ukcrimestats.com launches today

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    At last – after many months of difficult development, the Economic Policy Centre , the think tank which I am proud to be Chief Executive of,  is launching today a new ground-breaking platform – www.ukcrimestats.com UKCrimeStats is the UK’s only crime ranking platform for neighbourhoods, Police Forces and Streets with maps, analysis and reports –…

  • Regional and Regeneration policies share the same fallacies . . .

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    Writing in the Yorkshire Post today, I described what was wrong with typical regional policy and how to do it much better. I suggested doing effective, boring and unpopular stuff like moving workers to the work (not the other way round) with more low cost roads and buses and paying lower wages and benefits in…

  • Shale Gas – a new European energy revolution?

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    Under the aegis of Future Energy Strategies, I’ve organised an evening seminar on 20th January 2011 which seeks to answer this question, with the help of these three experts – Leigh Bolton of Holmwood Consulting, Nick Grealy of No Hot Air and Dr John Buggenhagen of San Leon Energy plc. To attend, please see here…

  • Don’t download Trusteer Rapport if you use Gotomypc !

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    HSBC is telling all its customers to download this programme – Trusteer Rapport. Unfortunately, it never occured to them to do the work and check for programme compatability with major software for small business customers. And www.gotomypc.com is very clearly not compatible – my pc is completely unaccesible ! It doesn’t help that Trusteer support…

  • The Global State of Carbon Capture and Storage

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    It’s here! The Global State of Carbon Capture and Storage 2009 A one-stop report for all you need to know on CCS. What is happening, what are the technologies, what are the problems, where are the opportunities? Read it at Future Energy Strategies