Babbage Forum

Lecture Series

Past lectures

The Babbage Lecture series includes lectures by leading figures associated with aspects of Industrial Innovation.

With speakers including former Science and Innovation Ministers Lord Sainsbury, Lord Willets and Innovate UK CEO Indro Mukherjee; Babbage Lectures have ranged from challenging conventional economic thinking on achieving ‘real’ growth to exploring how to more effectively structure public investment to address key industrial innovation challenges.

Upcoming lectures

The Babbage lectures series runs throughout the year, with details of all upcoming and past lectures listed on our events page.

We bring together a global network of experts from economics, engineering and operations management with a shared interest in industrial innovation policy.