The Difference Dividend: Why immigration is vital to innovation is the new NESTA provocation written by Charles Leadbeater. Charles has constructed an argument on the role of diversity, crisis and cultural flux in fostering innovation.

Charles gave a provocative introduction to this publication the other night in Cardiff. Some of the the most insightful aspects was the embeddedness of immigrants in the story of the economic development of Britain. I would like to explore the mechanisms of circular immigration in more detail.