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Technology is not enough, we need to talk to one another.

Recently I read a blog on the ‘ten most significant cultural trends of the last decade’ by Andy Crouch. His reflections resonated with me in my world of employment and skills. He said, ‘by far the most significant acceleration’ of the last decade was in ‘our technologies of connection’.

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The Bristol Pound: A local economic incubator

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10 ideas for change: Bristol

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Talking about regeneration: Community-led economic development in Bristol

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Could Bristol lead the way again?

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Bristol: How ‘alternative’ is its local economy?

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Making change happen: Bristol’s challenge

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Celebrating Bristol’s role in the emerging new economy

I’m a big fan of Bristol, having lived there on an off for many years and now working with a number of new economy initiatives based there. As I follow the ‘new economy’ space for the Real Economy Lab, based just outside Bristol, I spend quite a lot of time exploring the explosion of new economy initiatives around the world and I would say Bristol is one the UK’s, if not the world’s, hot spots on ‘new economy’ innovation. It’s no doubt why Bristol was voted Green Capital of the EU for 2015.