Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To Tackling Grand Challenges
When Steve Jobs was trying to lure John Sculley to be Apple’s CEO in the early 1980’s, he asked him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and...
View ArticleBEST OF TED: A clean energy proposal – race to the top!
Kicking off the TED2013 conference, Jennifer Granholm asks a very American question with worldwide implications: How do we make more jobs? Her big idea: Invest in new alternative energy sources. And...
View ArticleMr. Green Jeans
Blue jeans have become a fashion staple all around the world, but the manufacture of denim has also given the world a big environmental hit. Help may be on the way because there's now a new generation...
View ArticleInnovation or Not? – A Smart Smart Home Approach
I came across the inspiration for the latest in the "Innovation or Not?" series through a current London Business School student - Marie Milleron - for a Smart Home idea that they are raising money for...
View ArticleCompetition to Inspire Innovation in Energy
A competition sponsored by Statoil and managed by The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched, designed to generate ideas and build awareness of innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges....
View ArticleShell is Open for Innovation
Why does a company employing 92,000 people and spending $1.3bn on R&D need to go outside for more innovation? The reason is one of the classic foundations of Open Innovation.
View ArticleThe Gifts of Innovators: Six to Watch, Listen and Learn from in 2016…starting...
In our current era of corporatized innovation, and obsession with Silicon Valley’s unicorns, there’s a certain kind of person that I’m drawn to in the extreme - the artist as innovator who...
View ArticleShell Gamechanger – The Giant still wants Big Ideas
Shell Gamechanger is serious about substantial ideas. They do not want minor improvements to gas stations.
View ArticleThe Energy Revolution Will Transform How We Live and Work
Revolutions in commerce used to be few and far between. James Watt’s steam engine, developed in 1781, set the stage for the first industrial revolution. But it wasn’t until a century later that the...
View ArticleEnergy Storage Key to an Electric Future
Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important Technology In The World Right Now In 1882, Thomas Edison built the Pearl Street Station, his first steam powered electrical distribution plant. In the years...
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