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16/07/2011 GMT

Four guests plus a lively international audience at the TED conference discuss fresh ideas for business.

This week's Forum comes from Edinburgh in Scotland where we are part of the TED Global ideas conference.

Four distinguished guests and an audience of risk takers and decision makers from around the word probe fresh ideas for business both in the West and in Asia.

Pakistani film maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy wants to transform business culture in her native country; British American physicist Geoffrey West applies his radical ideas about scaling to company growth; Canadian green technology designer Ron Dembo has counter-intuitive suggestions for reducing energy consumption and Indian sugar producer Rajshree Pathy wants to transform agriculture. Plus insights from a wide range business innovators in the audience.

Illustration by Emily Kasriel: In business there is bullying as people are limited in how far they can grow while they are doing nothing.

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41 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Jul 2011 14:05GMT

Chapters

  • Part 1

    Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Business compassion charter

    Duration: 08:39

  • Geoffrey West

    Geoffrey West: Predicting the life-cycle of companies

    Duration: 14:21

  • Part 2

    Ron Dembo: 'Negawatts' for energy efficiency

    Duration: 11:10

  • Rajshree Pathy

    Rajshree Pathy: Transforming Indian agriculture

    Duration: 06:19

Broadcasts

  • Sat 16 Jul 2011 08:05GMT
  • Sat 16 Jul 2011 21:05GMT
  • Sun 17 Jul 2011 01:05GMT
  • Sun 17 Jul 2011 14:05GMT

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