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By: Lord Alec Broers (Guest)
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Lord Broers takes on the subject of collaboration for his second lecture - but what do our team make of his views?

14 Sep
2006
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BBC A football team - but can we all work together for the technological future?

In the second lecture, Lord Broers explores the origins of modern technologies.

He emphasises that new products almost always result from the bringing together and evolving of existing capabilities and stresses the importance of teamwork.

Is this where we're going? A car satnav [Image: SlipStreamJC under CC-BY-NC licence] Creative Commons Image SlipStreamJC via Flickr
Is this where we're going? A car satnav [Image: SlipStreamJC under CC-BY-NC licence]

Using global positioning technology and the evolution of electronics as examples he talks about the need to be at the frontiers of technology in order to stand any chance of making the next breakthrough.

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You can listen to the lecture, or read a transcript, on the BBC Radio 4 site

First broadcast: Wednesday 6 Apr 2005 on BBC Radio 4

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Lord Alec Broers (Guest)

Alec Broers spent 19 years working at IBM, prior to entering academia in 1984, starting a twenty year association with Cambridge University.

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