James Pollard Woudhuysen

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James Woudhuysen is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. As James Wood he wrote for the 'theoretical journal' of the Revolutionary Communist Group in 1975 (before the faction led by Frank Furedi was expelled from the RCG in late 1976), was on the editorial board of Revolutionary Communist Papers in 1980 and 1981 and was active in the Revolutionary Communist Tendency (1977-1981) and later the Revolutionary Communist Party (1981-1996). He was appointed, under his own name, as a third director of Junius Publications the RCP publishing house in September of 1984 and gave his occupation as 'Lecturer' and an address in London N1. He declared also a further directorship of a firm called Wordsearch Limited. He resigned from that post in 1990.

James Woudhuysen in 2011

He has written or spoken for the pro-growth Big Potatoes for which he co-authored their manifesto, the East Midlands Salon, the Brighton Salon, the New York Salon,, the Leeds Salon, Culture Wars, the Battle of Ideas, the Institute of Ideas, Novo Argumente, WORLDwrite, for whom he is also a tour guide trainer, and Spiked , of which he is also a shareholder.He is a director of building promoters, Audacity, has joined a Manifesto Club campaign and is the fifth signatory of the statement of Academics for Academic Freedom.

Education

• 1965 – 1970, St Paul's School, London, Bachelor of Science (BSc)
• 1971 – 1975, University of Sussex, Physics, Physics, Social Dimensions of Science, 2.1

Career

• 1986 – 1991 (5 years), Associate Director, Fitch PLC
• 1991 – 1995 (4 years), Associate Director, The Henley Centre, WPP Group plc, London, United Kingdom
• 1995 – 1997 (2 years), Manager, Worldwide Market Intelligence, Philips Consumer, Electronics, Eindhoven Area, Netherlands.
• October 1997 – June 2001 (3 years 9 months), Director, Seymourpowell.
• July 1995 – July 2014 (19 years 1 month), Professor of Forecasting and Innovation, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
• March 2014 – Present (2 years 8 months), Woudhuysen Ltd, London, United Kingdom.
• April 2015 – Present (1 year 7 months), Visiting Professor, London South Bank University.

Publications

Pamphlets, Book Chapters & Books

• James Woudhuysen, In defence of the Enlightenment in Jeremy Myerson, ed, Design renaissance: selected papers from the International Design Congress, Glasgow, Scotland 1993.
• James Woudhuysen, Digital Vision: Cult IT, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, February 1999
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Online Campus' in The McDonaldization of Higher Education by Dennis Hayes (Editor) & Robin Wynyard (Editor), Praeger, 2002.
• James Woudhuysen & Ian Abley, Why is construction so backward?, John Wiley & Sons, 4 February 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Education as Entertainment' in The Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education by Dennis Hayes, Routledge, 2004.
• James Woudhuysen & Joe Kaplinsky, Energise!: A Future for Energy Innovation, Beautiful Books Limited, January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, Big Potatoes: The London manifesto for innovation, 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation, 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Colour, brands and identity in tomorrow’s cities' in Colour in Times by Jan Brand (Author), Anne Van Zwaag (Author), Terra Uitgeverij, 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rethinking packaging: How Electronic Packs for Pharmaceuticals Work with Mobile IT to Improve Patient Adherence to Medication Regimens' in Smart Design: Rethinking Packaging by Philip Breedon (Editor), Springer, 2012.
• Maurice Goldsmith (Editor), Alan Mackay (Editor), James Woudhuysen (Editor), Einstein: The First Hundred Years [Print Replica] Kindle Edition, Pergamon, 2013.

Popular press, Magazines articles (including Revolutionary Communist Party) and web publications

1975

• Ashley Heath and James Wood, 'The Labour Party, the EEC and Ireland', Revolutionary Communist: Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Communist Group, Issue 2, May 1975: 41-5.

1979

• James Woudhuysen, 'Political economy: the survival kit for designers in the 1980s', Design, 5 April 1979.

1980

• James Woudhuysen, 'Raymond Loewy: a message from a grand old man', Design, 28 May 1980.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beginning at the bench: interview with Gordon Russell', Design. 5 October 1980.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Exiled to Malibu', Design, 2 December 1980.

1981

• James Woudhuysen, 'The first CFL – Thorn’s new light', Design, 17 April 1981.
• James Wood, 'The belated rise of French 'Socialism', Prolonging the death agony: The rise, fall and reconstitution of social democracy, Revolutionary Communist Papers No.8., Revolutionary Communist Party, Sept 1981, p. 31.

1982

• James Woudhuysen, 'Herman Kahn – the forecaster as think-tank', Design, 2 July 1982.

1983

• James Woudhuysen, 'King Miranda and the legacy of Italian design', Design, 25 February 1983.

1984

• James Woudhuysen, 'Silicon High Street', Blueprint, 5 March 1984.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nick Butler: product designer as an anti-hero', Blueprint, 23 April 1984.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Tayloring People for Production', Design, 28 August 1984.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Japanese in Britain: Sharp Corporation', Blueprint, October 1984.
• James Woudhuysen, 'David King: graphic designer, ranged left', Blueprint, 28 November 1984.

1985

• James Woudhuysen, 'A new kind of nationalism in design', The Listener, 12 September 1985.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gert Dumbar: Holland’s best-known contemporary graphic designer', Blueprint, 21 November 1985.

1986

• James Woudhuysen, 'Going down for the third time', Blueprint, 1 June 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The legacies of a high-tech holocaust', Campaign, review of James Bellini, High-tech holocaust, 10 June 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Naval supremacy still rules the world', The Listener, 12 June 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Knee-jerk reactions: exercise and personal health', The Listener, 10 July 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Danger: pods at work', The Listener, 13 November 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'FHK Henrion: graphics as propaganda in World War II', Blueprint, 22 December 1986.

1987

• James Woudhuysen, Back in the USSR, Design Week', January 1987.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How the East was won: Japan in the 20th century', Blueprint, 1 February 1987.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A licence to print money?', The Listener, 9 April 1987.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Toward the global concept', The Listener, 15 October 1987.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dieter Rams: The apostle of Cool', Blueprint, 24 December 1987.

1988

• James Woudhuysen, 'E-commerce in 1988', The Listener, 12 May 1988.

1989

• James Woudhuysen, 'Winter of the wastemakers', Management Today, 21 January 1989.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Back to the future again', Management Today, 21 June 1989.
• James Woudhuysen, 'One small step for man’, Management Today, 22 July 1989.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Saul Bass – film titles, films and corporate identity', Design Week, 22 September 1989.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why Paul Rand hates logos', Blueprint, 23 September 1989.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Homage to Dick Hess', Design Week, 3 November 1989.

1990

• James Woudhuysen, 'Straddling art and design: an interview with Milton Glaser', Design Week, 20 April 1990.
• James Woudhuysen, Fragile days of revolution, Design Week, June 1990.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Chequeless, cashless, clueless in the smart card society', Management Today, 29 November 1990.

1991

• James Woudhuysen, 'Corporate identity – making a clear impression', Management Today, 1 March 1991.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Adding style to the high street', Management Today, 1 April 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Government and City literature', Management Today, 1 May 1991.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Soaring flights of fancy’, Design Week, 14 June 1991.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Paul Rand: Old Master', Design Week, 16 August 1991.

1992

• James Woudhuysen, 'Making IT work for London', Management Today, March 1992.

1994

• James Woudhuysen, 'Report on design for Glasgow Development Agency, 1994', The Henley Centre, 9 April 1994.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Before we rush to declare a new era', Demos Quarterly, 22 December 1994.

1996

• James Woudhuysen, 'The Battle for the Living Room', Design Management Journal, Autumn 1996.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Risky business', Demos Quarterly, 10 October 1996.

1998

• James Woudhuysen, 'Review of Lightness by Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte', www.woudhuysen.com, 6 July 1998.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How design got High Street cred', Campaign, 16 September 1988.

2000

• James Woudhuysen, 'Tidings of Joy (NOT)', www.woudhuysen.com, Winter 2000.

2001

• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands demystified, essay, 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Team players', Spiked, 12 April 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The magic of mobile', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let happiness prevail', Computing, October 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rebranding America', Spiked, 26 October 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The American Design Adventure', book review, www.woudhuysen.com, 10 December 2001.

2002

• James Woudhuysen, 'Corrosive clairvoyants hinder progress', Computing, February 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'E-learning joins the class struggle', Computing, March 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t believe e-procurement hype', Computing, May 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t let them grind you down', Computing, May 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Usability cult sacrifices innovation', Computing, May 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why is government IT jinxed?', Computing, June 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Design of the times', Computing, July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Space men invade UK offices', Computing, July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Mergers are a force for good', Computing, July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The real con in WorldCon', Spiked, 19 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Toy stories', Spiked, 25 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brave new world of work', Computing, August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Converging on risk aversion', Spiked, 2 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'If in doubt, brand', Spiked, 14 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Hooray for Hutchison’s 3G plan', Computing, September 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The guff of greatness', Computing, September 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beware the bean counters', Computing, October 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Think-tanks turn their sights on IT', Computing, November 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Playing at democracy', Spiked, 28 November 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Management speak in IT', Critical Quarterly, Vol 44, Issue 4, December 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'My recipe for kitchen IT', Computing, December 2002.

2003

• James Woudhuysen, 'Will three-card trick fool public?', Computing, 27 January 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Endless ski-ing', Management Today, 1 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Keep an eye on democracy', Computing, 3 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Will work-life balance upset IT?', Computing, 25 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Air cares', Spiked, 10 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Self-healing PCBs', Management Today, 1 March 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, Does democracy need an ‘e’?, Computing, 22 April 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT blurs business and pleasure', Computing, 28 April 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Play as the Main Event in International and UK Culture', Cultural Trends, 28 April 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … X-ray eyes for roadmenders', Management Today, 1 May 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Methane-powered mobiles', Management Today, 1 April 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Lack of IT cements housing crisis', Computing, 17 May 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT must keep its head in a crisis', Computing, 28 May 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Big Brother for bugs', Management Today, 1 June 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dangers of information abuse', Computing, 15 June 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, Review of ‘Calculated Risks’, Management Today, 1 June 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come – Tower power', Management Today, 1 July 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gordon Brown in every handset', Computing', 11 July 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Putting the IT into politics', Spiked, 7 August 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Pelican planes', Management Today, September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future in 3G', Spiked, 5 September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is it RIP for R&D?', Computing, 24 September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Clever Carpets', Management Today, October 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'When offices go PC', Computing, 29 October 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is military IT power waning?', Computing, 21 November 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let IT be a force for good', Computing, 24 November 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Developing IT', Spiked, 17 December 2003.

2004

• James Woudhuysen, 'Brussels outlaws skipping', Computing, 2 January 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beware smotherers of invention', Computing, 15 January 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to new housing', The Times, 30 January 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why is construction so backward?', Spiked, 12 February 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New players on the IT stage', Computing, 5 April 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Wireless is nothing without The Face', http://www.woudhuysen.com, 9 April 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How IT can make city life better', Computing, 27 April 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In praise of strong leadership', Computing, 5 May 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Will the world find salvation or apocalypse in IT?', Computing, 20 May 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Broadband brings broad benefits', Computing, 30 May 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Housing crisis will hit IT', Computing, 1 June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Globalisation of UK manufacturing and services, 2004–24: toward the Agile Economy', UK Trade & Investment, 9 June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on', Spiked, 14 June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT suffers brand identity crisis', Computing, 21 July 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Give them good reason to comply', Computing, 29 July 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands: don’t buy the hype', Spiked, 25 August 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Distant dangers for staff', Computing, 31 August 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Homes 2016: Blueprint Broadside', Vol. 1, (sponsored by Living Solutions), September 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Time to put the C into ICT', Computing, 7 October 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Metro miserablists', Spiked, 7 October 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT gets behind the wheel of a car', Computing, 25 November 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Building on the desktop', Computing, 30 November 2004.

2005

• James Woudhuysen, 'Staff may be happier at home', Computing, 20 January 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dresden: Don’t apologise - understand', Spiked, 8 February 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Innovation is more than just design; a reply to Virginia Postrel', Blueprint, 16 March 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Tying WiFi down', Spiked, 13 April 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Contact centres are undervalued', Computing, 13 May 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The government IT club wants you', Computing, 27 May 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All eyes on the future', Spiked, 21 June 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The new service design', Computing, 7 August 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT must address grey matters', Computing, 16 September 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Time to switch on to mobile television', Computing, 30 September 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Airlines: It makes sense to share', Amadeus, 12 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Constructive ideas from the East', Spiked, 13 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Airlines: It makes sense to share', Amadeus, 12 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT hosts help airlines to soar again', Computing, 17 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All’s quiet on the Trafalgar front', Spiked, 21 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Take design advantage', Design Indaba, Quarter 4, 1 November 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Stop this ‘urban regeneration’ roadshow', Spiked, 24 November 2005.

2006

• James Woudhuysen, 'Power and responsibility go together', Computing, 10 January 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Cool heads needed for RFID debate', Computing, 24 January 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Conran Directory of Design, 1985', book review, Designers' Journal, 27 January 1986.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Big-headed ideas for mobile systems', Computing, 3 February 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'ID cards yes, mobile government no', Computing, 20 February 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Voice-operated: a word-of-mouth success', Computing, 13 March 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why don’t women play computer games?', Spiked, 23 March 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT makes staff struggle in isolation', Computing, 24 March 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Computer games and sex difference', www.woudhuysen.com, April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT holds key to East London regeneration', Computing, 13 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Blowing up Chernobyl', Spiked, 27 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is being green a turn-off?', Computing, 27 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Thames Gateway: when IT really matters', www.woudhuysen.com, 1 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In defence of individual ecofreedom', Spiked, 4 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Chasing the green pound', Computing, 9 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Hardware design isn’t old hat', IT Week, 30 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'RFID wireless tags face hurdles', Computing, 12 June 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Banking on IT', IT Week, 13 June 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Unhappy? Don’t blame IT gadgets', IT Week, 3 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A self-defeating argument for nuclear power', Spiked, 12 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Carbon ration cards', debate on BBC Breakfast, 20 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why people feel aggrieved about public Wifi', IT Week, 24 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The folly of carbon swipe cards', Spiked, 25 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Windmills of the mind', Spiked, 31 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beware the New Parochialism', Spiked, 7 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'UK energy rules leave managers cold', Computing, 9 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Futures and trends: foresight, forecasting or futurology', Design Council, 20 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China Telecom gains global reach', Computing, 21 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Bin Laden and the arithmetic of war', Spiked, 8 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dress smarter for a better life', Computing, 11 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Cooking 2026: the future of making meals in the home', Le Creuset, 17 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The dangers of Brownfield Brutalism', Spiked, 20 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Smarty-pants ideas to make work better', Computing, 22 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'NHS puts IT in the casualty ward', Computing, 9 October 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Forecasting the frontiers of design', Design Management Review, 12 October 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The fear behind the IT disasters', FMWorld, 20 October 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How IT will cook up a feast for the eyes', Computing, 27 October 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill', Spiked, 31 October 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Will eco-fear stifle innovation?', Computing, 3 November 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How to tackle blogger critics', Computing, 23 November 2006
• James Woudhuysen, 'Making a tidy sum from all fears', Computing, 12 December 2006.

2007

• James Woudhuysen, 'The EU’s post-industrial revolution', Spiked, 11 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Farewell to ‘seamless’: how CIOs can make enterprises agile', Siemens’ Open Minds magazine, 12 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gambling addiction: a panic at odds with reality', Spiked, 22 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Wave goodbye to gesture-free PCs', Computing, 22 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A big stink over contamination', Facilities Management World, 2 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A man-made morality tale', Spiked, 5 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'War and deception in the Netherlands', Spiked, 13 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT is our best bet for urban renewal', Computing, 15 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nuke the consultation - let’s have a debate!', Spiked, 20 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In praise of big cities', Spiked, 8 March 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is transport IT on the right road?', Computing, 19 March 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Call centres should move with the times', Computing, 3 April 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Remembering the Moscow Trials', Spiked, 16 April 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Happy birthday, Apple II', Computing, 16 April 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Broadband goes with the flow', Computing, 27 April 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'E-science creates another dimension', Computing, 11 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns', Spiked, 15 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t let the e-waste tail wag the innovation dog', IT Week, 23 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Take a PEW, hear a sermon', Spiked, 25 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Did Rachel Carson really kill more people than Stalin?', Spiked, 30 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Green issues need blue-skies thinking', Computing, 30 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Will an e-waste crisis be made in China?', Computing, 8 June 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is the Red Dragon a green threat?', Spiked, 21 June 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Future traveller tribes', Asian Hotel and Catering Times, 23 June 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'B2B e-merchants must raise their game', Computing, 25 June 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Youth worship will put economy on its knees', Computing, 9 July 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let's fight back against the new Model Army', Spiked, 12 July 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’, Spiked, 24 July 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'HDTV shows the way for online comms', Computing, 3 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'This land is our land', Spiked, 8 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible', Spiked, 16 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, Interaction design and the failure of post-modernism, www.woudhuysen.com, 20 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let’s research our own R&D record', Spiked, 30 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Innovation is more than combination', Computing, 7 September 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth', Spiked, 12 September 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit', Spiked, 4 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change', Spiked, 10 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Compulsive computer use', Computing, 16 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Clausewitz after 9/11', Spiked, 26 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud', Spiked, 5 November 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Lara Croft gets down to business', Computing, 19 November 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What’s Auntie for, exactly?', The Register, 20 November 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Knocking the wind out of the energy debate', Spiked, 12 December 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Whatever happened to self-reliance?', Computing, 18 December 2007.

2008

• James Woudhuysen, 'The Electric Car Conspiracy… that never was', The Register, 1 January 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Race to be green saps creative energy', Computing, 28 March 2008
• James Woudhuysen, The ‘Regeneration Games’, Battle of Ideas, 31 March 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'London 2012: where’s the Olympic Spirit?', Spiked, 2 April 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Experience trumps youthful exuberance', Computing, 28 April 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Will insight lose out to inanity on the mobile web?', Computing, 11 June 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West', The Times, 12 July 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nothing Romantic about environmentalists', Spiked, 16 July 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is man’s best friend a robot’s worst enemy?', Computing, 11 September 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New dawn rising for Eastern IT', Computing, 23 October 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Global rivalries go green', Spiked, 22 December 2008.

2009

• James Woudhuysen, 'The CFLs are on, but nobody’s home', Spiked, 12 January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen & Joe Kaplinsky, 'The world needs abundant, cheap, clean energy', Spiked, 30 January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'We need cheap, abundant energy', The Register, 9 February 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Britain’s airports: the case for three Heathrows', New Civil Engineer, 10 March 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Read into it what you will', FM World, 12 March 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The recession and the Politics of Fumbling', Spiked, 19 March 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D', Computing, 26 March 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?', Spiked, 7 April 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear', Spiked, 30 April 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An R&D recession', Spiked, 27 May 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Paying in cash: more than the strange pastime of a few', report for Bank Machine, 28 May 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Risk-taking, R&D and the recession', Spiked, 15 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gladwell: hero or zero?', Spiked, 26 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let’s go back to the moon — and beyond', Spiked, 29 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What movies tell us about work', Facilities Management World, 2 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The green man’s burden', Spiked, 7 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?', Spiked, 21 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New Labour’s power vacuum', Spiked, 19 August 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'State intervention is no substitute for innovation', Spiked, 30 October 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Still no clear policy on nuclear energy', Spiked, 11 November 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What’s so special about Dutch design?', Trend Book – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, 21 December 2009.

2010

• James Woudhuysen, 'Do we need a more venturesome economy?', Spiked, 29 January 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How the state is a roadblock to progress', Spiked, 11 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Letter from India', 11 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Budgeting for a dismal no‑‏growth future', Spiked, 30 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Whatever happened to innovation?', Spiked, 8 April 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An engaging tale, packed with myths', Spiked, 28 May 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An exhausted approach to the energy issue', Spiked, 3 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings', Spiked, 12 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, ‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’, Spiked, 27 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Battle of Britain: empires at war', Spiked, 24 September 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A very conservative approach to innovation', Spiked, 7 October 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'When Churchill starved India', Spiked, 26 November 2010.

2011

• James Woudhuysen, 'Big Pharma, small ambition', Spiked, 21 February 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Budgeting for a dismal no‑‏growth future', Spiked, 30 March 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark', Spiked, 12 April 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon', Spiked, 28 April 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene', Spiked, 30 August 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The causes of Fukushima: report of Annual symposium of the World Nuclear Association, 2011', Energy & Environment, Vol. 23 No. 2 & 3, 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?', Spiked, 10 October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?', The Independent, 11 October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears', Battle of Ideas conference, October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Manias about change', BBC Radio 3, 7 November 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor', Spiked, 7 December 2011.

2012

• James Woudhuysen, 'Making a molehill out of a mountain', Spiked, 17 January 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Next Trend in Design', Design Management Journal, 17 January 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Back on track', Amadeus, 25 January 2012
• James Woudhuysen, 'The craze for design thinking', Design Principles and Practices Journal, 29 January 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy', Spiked, 2 February 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rare earths and not-so-rare tensions', Spiked, 27 March 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Innovation in energy: expressions of a crisis', Energy & Environment, Vol 23 No. 6 & 7, 23 June 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Design alone can’t save UK plc', Spiked, 2 July 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The fuzzy front end of product design projects', Proceedings of the Design Management Institute, conference, 2012; written with Peter Ford. 8 August 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Big trouble in the East China Sea', Spiked, 3 September 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The idiocy of the New Catastrophists', Spiked, 22 October 2012.

2013

• James Woudhuysen, '3D printing: neither gimmick nor revolution', Spiked, 12 March 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, '3D printing: Gimmick, revolution or spooks’ nightmare?', The Register, 19 March 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Big Pharma’s little critics', Spiked, 28 March 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The next killer app: personalised healthcare', Spiked, 26 April 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The right to bear 3D-printed arms', Spiked, 16 May 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What London needs in terms of IT', CitiesGlobal, 25 May 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'From red peril to green panic', Spiked, 18 June 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Time for some high-street innovation', Spiked, 26 June 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China struggles to engineer robot revolution', China Outlook, 13 July 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The robots are coming - but not fast enough', Spiked, 15 July 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dangerous dogs: not that dangerous', Spiked, 8 August 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A Seminal Panic about Defence IT: The Marconi Scam, 1913', IDG Connect, 9 August 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A tax obsession with diminishing returns', Spiked, 3 September 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'High Speed 2: an impoverished debate', Spiked, 16 September 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020', China Outlook, 26 September 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'R&D: why failure is necessary', Spiked, 1 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Six high-tech industries for 2020 and beyond', Spiked, 10 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Letter from Lebanon: powering up for a brighter future', Spiked, 31 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Humanity: alive and well in the fast lane', Spiked, 13 November 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Chinese supercomputers', China Outlook, 15 November 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT and US energy: grids go smart, armed forces go solar', IDG Connect, 27 November 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dementia: how health nudging works', Spiked, 12 December 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Computer games in China – some battles on screen, more in the market', China Outlook, 16 December 2013.

2014

• James Woudhuysen, US firms and the ‘dash for cash’, Spiked, 2 January 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Obesity busybodies turn down the heat', Spiked, 28 January 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Big Six aren't to blame for high energy prices', Spiked, 11 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Design against food waste? Count me out', Resource, 14 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'British environmentalists love Germany’s energy policies', NovoArgumente, February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China in space: conquests, reversals – and revival', China Outlook, 18 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Banning fur is not a political statement', Spiked, 28 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Making the case for shale gas and oil', Spiked, 3 April 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'When telcos are terrible at communication', IDG Connect, 11 April 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dangerous dogs or feckless owners?', Spiked, 15 May 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts', speech at Leeds Salon, June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Seven reasons we should celebrate manufacturing', Spiked, 9 June 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT's not the future', Spiked, 11 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'People, your TVs are too big!', Spiked, 17 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'International Intrigue and a Slow Web in China’s Dalian', IDG Connect, 4 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Digital native? There’s no such thing', Spiked, 13 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fracking with George Monbiot', James Woudhuysen and George Monbiot discussion on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), BBC Radio 4, 23 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Transport: breaking through the impasse', Spiked, 29 October 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Strategies in Lean IT: their relevance to the travel business', White Paper, 29 October 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Carbon makes the world go round', Spiked, 25 November 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future of media and the relevance of Content', speech at Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, Digital Catapult Centre, 4 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The robots are not taking over', Spiked, 5 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Drones: time to reach for the skies', Spiked, 10 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Chinese innovation assessed', www.woudhuysen.com, 18 December 2014.

2015

• James Woudhuysen, Design and Quality, The Chartered Quality Institute, 2 February 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future of retailing', Blueprint, 24 March 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The greening of the ivory towers', Spiked, 25 March 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China’s leap forward on patents', Geopolitical Info Service, 30 March 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Publicly funded design support for SME manufacturers', first published at AgIdeas conference, Melbourne, 2 April 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New ideas that could give UK manufacturing a lift', Made Here Now, 23 April 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'UK transport: going nowhere', Spiked, 1 May 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, The coming niches for UK design, Blueprint, 13 May 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, Humanitarian design = cultural imperialism, Blueprint, 16 June 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Futureproofing your business', www.thebestyoumagazine.co.uk, 2 June 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Mobility trends and the professional use of IT in European aviation, 2015-2025', Panasonic White Paper, 18 July 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why Alice is still wonderful', Spiked, 24 July 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Our hero: Gensets provide critical power where it’s needed', IDG Connect, 6 August 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The attractiveness of cars in a Green age', Lex Autolease, 4 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What agility means for business', O2, 17 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Report on Sheffield City Centre', www.woudhuysen.com, 22 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Invasion of the sexbots? Get a grip', Spiked, 23 September 2015.
• Paul Seaman & James Woudhuysen, 'VW: a panto of Green politics', Spiked, 30 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New wars, new technology', panel discussion at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, Design and the future of IT, Blueprint, 16 October 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Cosmonauts: a tribute to Russian grit', Spiked, 15 October 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Retail 2020: Of robots, shelves and packs', The Market Creative, 12 November 2105.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Circular business models won’t revive urban manufacturing', presented to the Knowledge Transfer Network 'Head to Head Live’ event, London, 17 November 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, ‘Ethical’ design – or the ethic of progress?, Blueprint, 21 November 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Manufacturing at Heart', interview, entitled ‘Thinking about the future’ was produced as a Manufacturing at Heart podcast. 29 November 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'China’s productivity', ''Geopolitical Info Service, 7 December 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t believe the eco-hype', Spiked, 17 December 2015.

2016

• James Woudhuysen, Design and the future of disaster relief, Blueprint, 8 January 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Child migrants: Britain is far from full', Spiked, 5 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Navigating the new landscape in cybersecurity', IDG Connect, 16 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'No, Facebook isn’t the British Raj', Spiked, 17 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Chinese consumer markets cannot be turned back', Geopolitical Information Service, 24 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, The spiral into neo-protectionism, Blueprint, 5 March 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Automation anxiety and the future of IT', Blueprint, 17 May 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, Where is Indian design going?, Blueprint, 17 May 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Scots manufacturing: time to revive Enlightenment traditions', Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service, 20 May 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Queen’s speech: all talk and no tech', Spiked, 23 May 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Another fracking melodrama', Spiked, 6 June 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Toward a new customer experience, European rail, 2030', Amadeus Rail, 12 June 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, Innovation in megaprojects, Blueprint, July 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, Internet of Things, Internet of Apprehension, IDG Connect, July 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear', Spiked, 9 August 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Hinkley, cybersecurity, China and the New Protectionism', IDG Connect, 15 August 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Heathrow’s third runway: delayed, delayed, delayed', Spiked, 15 September 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, Automation anxiety and the future of work, Facilities Management World, September 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, Samsung’s critics: recalling the future, www.woudhuysen.com, 17 October 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, No, your home won’t be hacked, Spiked, 31 October 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, A postcapitalist pseuds’ corner, Spiked, 30 December 2016.

2017

• James Woudhuysen, The robots aren’t taking over, Spiked, 9 January 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, The real problem with the US economy, Spiked, 18 January 2017.

• James Woudhuysen, Fragile days of revolution, www.woudhuysen.com, 20 January 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, The future of retail banking, Blueprint, 24 January 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, The West was protectionist before Trump, Spiked, 30 January 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Innovation then – and the challenge now, www.woudhuysen.com, 1 February 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Warum die amerikanische Wirtschaft schwächelt, Novo Argumente, 28 April 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Back in the USSR, www.woudhuysen.com', 3 March 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, The art of revolution, Spiked, 3 March 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Let’s get real about Augmented and Virtual Reality, Blueprint, March 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Stillstand im Verkehr überwinden, Novo, 4 April 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, The psychobabble behind the ‘AI is racist’ claim, Spiked, 18 April 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Why Britain should go big on electric cars, Spiked, 9 May 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Why you shouldn’t weep over WannaCry, Spiked, 16 May 2017.
• James Woudhuysen, Innovation früher und heute, Novo, 17 May 2017.

Speaking / Media Appearances

• James Woudhuysen, 'Should each person carry a Carbon Ration Card?', Debate on BBC Breakfast with Professor Mayer Hillman about the Carbon Ration Card proposal. 20 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Solar energy for British homes?', BBC Breakfast, 5 April 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The nineteenth-century Greens', Radio 4 extra, 16 July 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Low-energy light bulbs – blaming us for energy consumption', BBC Breakfast, 8 January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Future Unwrapped: Media and Society, 2012+', Media Futures Conference, 3 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Business models are no substitute for genuine innovation', event organised by ModComms at Grant Thornton. 19 April 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Forecasting at Sage World 2010', Sage World 2010 conference.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears', Battle of Ideas conference, 17 October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Behind the froth in IT and innovation', TEDx Sussex University, 19 June 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Moby Dick Big Read: Chapter 24 – The Advocate', Peninsular Arts with Plymouth University, 16 September 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?', The Voice of Russia, 28 September 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years', The Energy Event, 11 October 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands and Corporate Social Responsibility', The Alternative, 29 October 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Cities: what IT could do for London', Global Futures, 20 February 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Six emerging industries, 2020', Design Authority, 18 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future of higher education and IT', Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA), 22 November 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Design needs to make more than a difference', Design Authority, 13 March 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts', Leeds Salon, 14 June 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fujitsu World Tour 2014: The human centric intelligent society', Fujitsu UK CTO Jon Wrennall talks to James Woudhuysen. 7 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Communicating the romance of innovation', Opening Keynote II at the European Communication Summit in Brussels, 11 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fracking with George Monbiot', BBC Radio 4, 23 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Innovative technologies in manufacturing', Sponsored by Epicor Software. 26 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future of media and the relevance of Content', Digital Catapult Centre, 4 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Re-inventing the High Street', Digital Catapult Centre, 4 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference', 23 January 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Tackling challenges faced by oil and gas companies', Michael Zipf interviews James Woudhuysen after his Keynote address ‘Forecast of the Future: The Value of Ambitious Innovation in Energy’ at the International SAP conference for Oil and Gas, CityCube, Berlin April 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Extraordinary innovation: presentation to a conference of UK power systems manufacturers', Association of Manufacturers of Power Systems (AMPS) conference 2015, 12 March 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Future of Innovation – at Fujitsu', keynote address to Fujitsu UK & Ireland’s conference of Distinguished Engineers, held on 24 September 2015 at Warwick University.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Stuffitis, Affluenza and the Circular Economy', lecture, Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts, London, November 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Manufacturing at Heart', interview, entitled ‘Thinking about the future’ was produced as a Manufacturing at Heart podcast. 29 November 2015.

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