The Spectator’s Economic Innovator of the Year Awards 2020, sponsored by Julius Baer, are open for entries. Innovation will be vital in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and in the recovery phase that follows. We’re looking for entrepreneurs in every sector and region of the UK whose products are changing markets and have the potential for global success. We’re especially keen to identify ventures that are making valuable social impacts during the current crisis.
We’re also fascinated to know how entrepreneur-led businesses are coping with the lockdown. Here are two such stories — of The Floow and ReBound, respectively the North East and Midlands regional winners of our 2019 Awards.
Entrepreneurs are optimists by nature. They’re also intensely focused on perfecting their products, so more able than most of us to tune out the noise around them — much of which, in today’s troubled world, could otherwise be very disturbing.
So it was no surprise to find Dr Sam Chapman in strikingly calm mode on the phone.
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