Anton Howes

Dr. Anton Howes is the head of innovation at the Entrepreneurs Network, and Historian in Residence at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Dr. Anton Howes is the head of innovation at the Entrepreneurs Network, where he translates his research into practical policy proposals.. Dr. Howes was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University and subsequently held the position of assistant professor in economic history at King’s College in London, where he received his Ph.D. His recent book, Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation, is a definitive history telling the story of Britain’s subscription-funded national improvement agency, the RSA. Dr. Howes is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, focusing on the hundreds of individual inventors and innovators who made it possible, and the institutions they created to keep it going.