The Business Incubator is a global, professional journal for management and staff working within the incubation industry. It has been published since 2012 by a team of of seasoned incubation and publication professionals with many years experience of the industry and it brings a spotlight to the increasingly important development of innovative SMEs. As we… Continue reading Article on Swedish start-ups in the Business Incubator Magazine
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China embarks on the route of Design as driver for Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Last week I was invited by the Dragon Design Foundation in Beijing, People’s Republic of China (PRC), to attend and give a speech at the 2014 World Green Design Forum Summit in Yangzhou. I have for the last ten days had the opportunity and great pleasure to take part in and exchange thoughts, ideas and… Continue reading China embarks on the route of Design as driver for Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Virtual Areas of Innovation
The life style of today has influenced the fundamental elements of setting up, developing or working with innovation and innovative business activities. The First Generation of innovation environments can be condensed in the phrase “Science Push”. The main idea of starting the trend of innovation environments and science parks was to catapult the science and… Continue reading Virtual Areas of Innovation
Resources – Rethink in Iraq
As in any post war conflict country, resource/waste management is a task that requires systematic and long term thinking and is not always best managed by profit seeking corporations though good exceptions to that rule exists and many more will come. When changing a mindset of a whole nation towards resource use, one must obviously… Continue reading Resources – Rethink in Iraq
SymbioCity conference in Kenya
On the 20th and 21st November I attended a conference organised by the Swedish Trade Council in Nairobi and spoke about project finance on the second day. The conference was held at the Laico Regency Hotel, it was very well organised and attended and the talks very interesting. Mr Björn Häggmark, the Chargé d’Affaires at… Continue reading SymbioCity conference in Kenya
Place Excellence and EU Horizon 2020 seminars in Zagreb
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up… His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.” – Nikola Tesla During the last week of October 2012, Jörgen Eriksson, Lars-Göran Larsson and… Continue reading Place Excellence and EU Horizon 2020 seminars in Zagreb
Konza Technology City investors conference
During three days in August, 7th to 9th, I attended the first investors conference for Konza Technology City, in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference was very well attended, with more than 500 people from both the local business community in Nairobi and many international participants. The venue was the Kenyatta International Conference Center in the central… Continue reading Konza Technology City investors conference
22@Barcelona – Quad Helix by the Mediterranean
This blog post is about how the city of Barcelona during the recent decade has developed into one of the most vibrant and energetic innovation environments in the knowledge economy, and about the people who made it happen. What is the city but the people? – William Shakespeare, Coriolanus Barcelona, mythical city by the sea… Continue reading 22@Barcelona – Quad Helix by the Mediterranean
Something New Above the Noise of the City
In Bearing we have recently together with Thomas Vale Construction, Duncan Berntsen of Berntsen Consulting and Greenwich University and Robert Edwards of Acivico Ltd participated in designing a building on the concepts of innovation and science park without walls. It is the iCentrum building, a high profile extension to the Birmingham Science Park Aston in… Continue reading Something New Above the Noise of the City
Quad Helix in practice in Grythyttan
Introduction In a previous post on this blog, Jörgen Eriksson and I introduced the Quad Helix model. It is a conceptual model which we have developed in Bearing to explain successful cooperation of government, academia, business and the civil sector for place management and place development, and also introducing the importance of “talents”. In our… Continue reading Quad Helix in practice in Grythyttan