In doing so, he drew on conversations with the leading academic thinkers on strategy, including the godfathers of the field, Peter Drucker and Michael Porter.
He said: "The UK continues to produce some of the most brilliant academic thinkers in the world, but we must nurture academic talent from all walks of life if the country is to benefit fully from these talents, which are likely to be even more important to us all in the future".
"Monetary policy clearly has attracted a lot of academic thinkers and provided an intellectual and personal basis for people to work together," he says.
Bernard Crick, academic, political thinker and writer, born 16 December 1929; died 19 December 2008.
"It would be easy to conclude from that that he was not a rigorous academic economic thinker.
He quotes the academic and thinker Pablo Boczkowski to make the point that the tablet is an answer to a problem most people don't have: "Most people need a simple surfboard, rather than the complex — and costly — diving gear".
In America some academics and thinkers on the left are coming to similar conclusions.
Academics and thinkers are also invited each year to write on the wider social impact of digital developments.
"Ten senior academics and thinkers came together to analyse the project using standard assessments, and we would say to the government that they can demonstrate what we found is garbage by providing us with figures for the project," he said.
It aims to use London as a giant lecture-hall: students will make use of free events, galleries and concerts, alongside online lectures, weekly workshops and seminars, led by academics and thinkers who volunteer their time.
