PROFESSOR DYLAN JONES-EVANS

Many have argued that one of the drivers of the referendum result to leave the European Union was a fear of immigration which, in the minds of a significant part of the population, had become too high. Yet one of the real failures of the remain camp was to emphasise the positive benefits of immigration which affects all aspects of our lives. With a similar discussion on immigration currently going on in America under the Trump Presidency especially in terms of increasing jobs for US born citizens, it may be worth looking in detail at the impact that immigration has had on the World’s largest economy over the last two decades. One of the first studies to identify the positive impact of immigrants was the ground-breaking book “ The New Argonauts ” published back in 2006 from the Berkeley academic Anna Lee Saxenian. In a tour de force of modern economic geography, she examined the effect that immigrants were having on the development of the most economically successful region glo...

Hat tip to the fantastic Brainpicker website which has found a rare video of a 1986 PBS documentary known as The Entrepreneurs. It offers "a rare glimpse of Jobs’ original vision with NeXT, from his aspirations for higher education and simulated learning environments to his decision-making process on price point and product features to his approach to company culture and motivational morale". Watch and marvel.

Should Universities be organised like Apple? In fact, could you imagine a higher education institution being managed without a single committee? I could.

On October 5th 2011, one of greatest entrepreneurs that this World has ever seen passed away in his California home at the age of 56, leaving an enormous legacy of brilliance. For those of us who study entrepreneurship, there are many who are put on pedestals as people who have changed the World around them. Josiah Wedgwood, Edwin Land, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Richard Branson and Bill Gates are all individuals who made a difference to specific industry but is there anyone who, in such a comparatively short lifetime, did more than Steve Jobs to change the way we work, play and communicate with each other? Let’s look at the evidence. In the 1970s, he created the Apple II, the World’s first personal computer, with his best friend Steve Wosniak. He then went onto to develop the Macintosh, which began the home computer revolution and created the desktop publishing industry. When he left Apple after a management dispute, he joined forces with John Lassiter at Pixar to create a wh...