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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...business, and we have also made a significant contribution to Shelter Scotland JOSH LITTLEJOHN: With the help of the money we raised at The Scottish Business Awards last year, we have so far managed to open up four shops: two in Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, and a central production kitchen out in Livingston. At the moment, we are employing 26 people. What's really unique is...
60 second adventures in economics: The Phillips Curve
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Phillips Curve

...money to spend, so prices go up and so does inflation. And likewise, when unemployment is high, the lack of money to spend means that inflation goes down. This became known as the Phillips Curve. Governments even set policy by the curve, tolerating the inflation when they spent extra money creating jobs. But they forgot that the workers could also see the effects of the...
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...money governments have to pass money bills (most notably, the budget). A signatory to a confidence-and-supply deal agrees to support the government in the passage of these bills. In exchange for confidence-and-supply support, a minor party would expect some influence over government policy, which is usually announced in a Queen’s speech at the opening of parliament....
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...business sectors, its jobs. From the moment of its ‘birth’ in 1967 as one of the country’s ‘new towns’, Milton Keynes was planned as a whole. Over the past three decades, it has out-smarted every other city in the UK in terms of its annual average growth rate of output and employment. Meanwhile, most of Britain’s old industrial cities – Newcastle, Sheffield,...
Positivity Portal
Health, Sports & Psychology

Positivity Portal

...money management. ...Believe you can and you’re half way there – Theodore Roosevelt 2020 was a challenging year for us all. With that in mind, The Open University’s positivity portal is here to help you get your 2021 off to the best start possible. We’ll offer advice from our academics, free courses on a range of subjects including mental health and wellbeing,...
Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...money, and more focused on creating social and environmental value. A proposed solution is to create a more democratic sharing economy. In other words, a sharing economy where the corporate owners are held accountable by the wider public, and users and workers govern platforms together. But democratising the sharing economy is no mean feat. Research I’ve conducted with...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...business at all levels, for the good of the whole company. The excitement comes from many areas: working/influencing (challenging) executives on strategic direction implementing change – identifying new strategies and working with the company to implement the thinking intellectual challenge – thinking through complex organisational problems and developing strategies...
Learn with Start Up Loans
Money & Business

Learn with Start Up Loans

...businesses get off the ground and stay there...Find out more about The Open University's Business and Management courses and qualifications [British Business Bank logo] Start Up Loans is committed to helping UK business owners realise their business dreams. Whether that’s making a business idea a reality, or helping new businesses to......