{"id":5091,"date":"2020-02-24T06:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmoneyreview.com\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2020-03-04T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:49:04","slug":"the-spirit-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/the-spirit-of-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"The spirit of innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money is undergoing unprecedented change: around the world, we see new ways of paying each other, new stores of value, new ways of recording economic activity and new forms of exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But how surprising is this period of upheaval? From the wheel to the loom, the steam engine to electricity and the computer, human history has witnessed regular, intense bouts of technological progress. Are there particular factors that lead to a spirit of innovation?<\/p>\n<p>Anton Howes, our guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/56483033\/the-spirit-of-innovation\/\">the latest <em>New Money Review<\/em> podcast<\/a>, is well-placed to answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>Anton is historian-in-residence at the UK\u2019s Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce, which is nearly 270 years old. Before that he was a lecturer in economic history at King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n<p>His specialist subject is the three-century period of English history when the country switched from being a \u2018godforsaken backwater\u2019 off the north-west coast of continental Europe to playing the leading global role in the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast to hear Anton\u2019s views on the following topics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is innovation?<\/li>\n<li>Why Elizabethan England lagged in agriculture and industry<\/li>\n<li>How an \u2018improving mentality\u2019 came to England<\/li>\n<li>Institutional support for innovation<\/li>\n<li>The role of royal monopolies and corporations<\/li>\n<li>Great exhibitions, world fairs and international competition<\/li>\n<li>Copyrights, patents and innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t miss any more New Money Review content:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/du6eTr\"><strong>sign up here<\/strong><\/a> for our\u00a0newsletter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/publish.blubrry.com\/content\/posts.php\">Click here<\/a> for a full list of episodes of the New Money Review podcast: the future of money in 30 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money is undergoing unprecedented change: around the world, we see new ways of paying each other, new stores of value, new ways of recording economic activity and new forms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1012,1053,1014,1011],"tags":[1668,1667],"class_list":{"0":"post-5091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-account","8":"category-exchange","9":"category-featured-1","10":"category-payment","11":"category-value","12":"tag-anton-howes","13":"tag-innovation"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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