James Woudhuysen

James is a polymathic and expansive thinker and writer on innovation and technology, and how business and the economy is organised itself to grow and reproduce. He has written widely on innovation in the West and the East, with particular interest in technology and competition in industrial development in the UK, and US, Japan and China, and wrote a 4-book survey on Japanese growth in the 20th Century, ‘Asian Tensions’. James writes about the future of energy, analysing the nature and extent of climate change.

In his book, ‘Energise!’ he took a step back to analyse the nature of humanity’s response to it, exploring why we have so far failed to deliver an intelligent response to it. James also co-authored a manifesto to innovation for London, ‘Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation’, critiquing why the pace of technological innovation in the West is slow, and holding society and the economy back.