INNOVATION
Knowledge for Innovation: Trends and Environment for Innovation Deployment Horizon
Knowledge is at the source of the rationale for the key decisions that shape and drive an innovation project. Relevant knowledge can come from a wide variety of sources. Winners at the innovation game are the best at rapidly seeking, filtering, digesting,...
Innovation risk management as a gambling game
“Fail often, but fail fast and cheap” is a well known mantra, often repeated by innovation gurus. However this piece of wisdom is not so easily understood by enthusiastic would-be inventors and innovators. This text attempts to illustrate this somewhat...
Knowledge for Innovation: Internal Knowledge Flow
Knowledge is at the source of the rationale for the key decisions that shape and drive an innovation project. Relevant knowledge can come from a wide variety of sources. Winners at the innovation game are the best at rapidly seeking, filtering, digesting,...
Technological Museums Quest | 1. Getting started
Visiting the past of the future First off, here's how Peter Thiel explains the concept of future: What makes the future distinctive and important isn’t that it hasn’t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks...
Knowledge and innovation: a tight interdependency
Any innovator knows from experience that knowledge is as important to him or her as mortar is to a mason. Knowledge is required at every step of the innovation process. Knowledge is the key resource in the generation of an innovative concept. We speak here...
Toward the third Industrial Revolution: optimizing resources
The economist Adam Smith identified three key factors for economic growth: labor, capital, and resources. While the first and second Industrial Revolutions were mostly concerned with optimizing labor productivity and capital allocation, the third...
The Internet of Skills and Knowledge
This short chapter elaborates on works by Jeremy Rifkin and also Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers. They see our world entering a third Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial Revolution, which took place during the late-eighteenth and...
Innovation: integrate the best state of knowledge in the world – Marc Giget
Integrate the best state of knowledge in the world To innovate is to integrate the best state of knowledge into creative products and services with the aim of improving life in society and for individuals. These three components: the knowledge,...
How much multipotentiality does innovation need?
Multipotentiality has a strong sense and a weak sense. In the strong sense, it is the ability to perform in unrelated domains of activity. In the weak sense, it is the cultivation of interests pertaining to unrelated domains, even if this...
Ono-Dit-Biot & De Loisy channel Houellebecq @ Palais de Tokyo |Impressions
The elusive French writer Michel Houellebecq rarely appears in public, however sometimes his buddies will accept to come and share insights and anecdotes about the man. Enter Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, an interesting writer and journalist in his...