Back in december we told you about the chance to pitch your products to Liberty Best of British. The BBC recorded the pitches, the ideas and the pitfalls during the commercial process of choosing the BEST OF BRITISH. Episode 1 covers Liberty BEST OF BRITISH. Watch it on iPlayer here.
Tag Archives: research and development
Best of British: Liberty design call 2011
From fashion to furniture, hats to handbags, craft to cushions, Liberty is encouraging anyone with a creative passion to bring in their designs for the panel to judge.
R&D: standing in the investors’ shoes
If you’re looking for funding from investors, you need to take a step back and look at your business from their point of view. In the creative industry we are familiar with grants, but investment is a whole new animal. Here are some things to think about
R&D: things to consider when taking in investment
Having identified investment as a route and knowing that you’ll be focusing on the parts of your business that bring growth according to your investors, what do you need to be aware of when considering what goes in the contract with the investor?
R&D: nurture informal experimentation
If you’ve been following our posts about research and development, you may well be thinking about how best to get R&D working in your business. But before you rush to set up a rigorous structures, you should think carefully about how much discipline and order is required
R&D: recommended reading list
here are some words to digest with your fourth MyCake Benchmark Bulletin
R&D: don’t forget to protect yourself
We were so surprised by the low figure for spend on research and development (R&D) and intellectual property (IP) (1.1% and 0.3% of turnover respectively) in the recent MyCake Benchmark Bulletin (no4), that we had a chat with ACID (Anti-Copying in Design) to find out whether MyCake users spend on these areas was lower than ACID members. As Read the full article…
Why does R&D matter to me and what’s the balance vs. bread & butter income work?
Research and development (R&D) matters for many reasons but in particular it should be the work that feeds you intellectually. In deciding where the balance lies between bread and butter income and time spent on R&D there are a couple of related things to consider that are beyond your control yet influence success…
Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas
When’s the last time you came up with 55 ideas … about anything?
Inventor and artist Steven M Johnson tells Allison Arieff (By Design columnist for The New York Times) how he does it…
R&D: Why Businesses Don’t Experiment
In your business do you have a culture of experimentation where failure is viewed as data, not a waste of time and resources? Experimenting on customers rather than relying on intuition may be the steeper path but gets better results in the end.