At the World Economic Forum in Abu Dhabi this month, there was a panel discussion on the state of innovation, not surprisingly highlighting the role of big data. Innovation is happening at light speed but what does the progress in areas like robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, nanotechnology and genome editing mean? The speakers were: Victoria… Continue reading Debate on Future Innovation
Category: Innovation Management
The New Approach for How to Make a Place Innovative
To drive the development of an innovation ecosystem, four different sectors must be linked together: government, business, civil society and academia. This is what we call the Quad Helix and they need to be engaged in collaboration forums and projects and together drive development. Also within and between the academic and business sectors, the innovation… Continue reading The New Approach for How to Make a Place Innovative
Innovative Sustainable Re-development – Masdar City
This blog article is about Masdar City, a new city project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The dual core of this project is innovation and sustainability. The goal is to extend the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the new city, by growing new neighbourhoods around the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. The institute is… Continue reading Innovative Sustainable Re-development – Masdar City
The new Global Competition for Corporate Profits
The world’s largest multinational corporations have been riding a three-decade wave of profit growth, market expansion, and declining costs. Yet this unprecedented run may be coming to an end. A new McKinsey Global Institute report, Playing to win: The new global competition for corporate profits, projects that the global corporate-profit pool, which currently stands at… Continue reading The new Global Competition for Corporate Profits
Recent Trends of Innovation in Advertising
Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell. – David Ogilvy The advertisement industry is innovating at a breakneck pace. They must do so to survive. Their clients demand innovation as they go through a pace of change combined with a pressure to redefine, which is having significant impact on all business industries.… Continue reading Recent Trends of Innovation in Advertising
The Innovator who Rebuilt Lego
“In some ways, I think he’s a better model for innovation than Steve Jobs” – David Robertson, Professor of Innovation and Product Development at the Wharton School and an author of “Brick by Brick” about Lego. One of the most popular articles here on the Bearing Wave is The Lego Innovation Story, about how the… Continue reading The Innovator who Rebuilt Lego
Christensen, Asimov and the Impact of Disruptive Innovation
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov, “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Questions”, 1988 The Storage Dilemma The picture to the right shows a 5 MB hard drive being shipped out by IBM in 1956. Five megabyte. My first work… Continue reading Christensen, Asimov and the Impact of Disruptive Innovation
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – An Overview
Dear readers, a few months ago we have started a series of articles about multimodal transport and railway systems with a post about King´s Cross station in London. Since then we have published seven more articles, and today we finish the series with this summary overview. The articles in the series are dedicated to analysing … Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – An Overview
Official video recordings from Future of Places III
The full set of video recordings from the Future of Places III Conference in Stockholm 29th June to 1 July are now available on YouTube. Below is an index with links to the videos. We have published some of the speeches here on this blog while the conference was on-going. However the recordings below are… Continue reading Official video recordings from Future of Places III
Dealing with Disruption–The Next Ten Years
The World Economic Forum have published a new report on innovation, titled Dealing with Disruption. Unlike previous reports, this is not a downloadable PDF, but instead an interactive website available here. It is worth reading though, even in this not-so-user-friendly format. Disruptive innovation is a critical driver of progress. When we look at the past… Continue reading Dealing with Disruption–The Next Ten Years