Discussion Forums » Topic of the Month
Topic for August - Business Innovation and Business in Society
-
Our agenda for discussion of this topic is shown below:
Topic: Rewarding Business Innovation and the Role of Business in Society
Is Business Innovation a good thing?
- Conservative businesses
- Disruptive Technologies
How do we encourage business innovation?
- What incentives can we put in place?
- Productivity and incentives
- Turning research into UK products and services, rather than overseas companies reaping the benefits
- Should conservative businesses pay more tax?
Does Business have a role in society?
- What is it?
- What does business owe to society?
- What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
- Who are the stakeholders in business? How should they be recognised?
- What are the balance of roles and responsibilities of the different stakeholders?
- What incentives could we put in place for contributing more to society?
- Taxation and Business
- Responsibility for negative consequences
- Morality in decision making (versus letter of law)
- Social responsibility nudges
- Social interest statement
- Statement of ethical trading (tax etc)
What should business look like in future?
- How will AI impact business and in turn impact society?
- How will we pay for the impact?
- Pervasive Technology Contribution
- Productivity Contribution
- Paying for the Public Sector
- The role of Charities
This post was edited by Tony Clack at July 30, 2018 2:09 PM BST -
The Output from discussion of this topic is available at:
http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/39/rewarding-business-innovation-and-the-role-of-business-in-society