Britain should turn Ukrainian wartime innovation into shared leadership
Does innovation happen only under pressure? It is a difficult question to ask, because history does give us a difficult answer.
Wars, shocks and national emergencies have often forced societies to move faster than they would in normal times, and many of the technologies we now take for granted came from moments nobody would wish to repeat.
The Second World War is the obvious example, with its lasting influence on medicine, aviation, computing, communications and manufacturing.
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The Covid pandemic gave us a more recent version of the same pattern, when a global health crisis pushed scientists, regulators, governments and pharmaceutical companies to develop and approve vaccines at a speed that would previously have been treated as impossible.
Ukraine’s experience
It is often said that Ukraine’s experience of wartime innovation cannot be replicated in ‘peaceful’ Britain. In one sense, of course it cannot. One country is fighting...
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