Final note: CATCH (the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health), the new (non-profit) Boston-based innovation initiative I recently co-founded with MGH Chief-of-Medicine Dennis Ausiello (who will lead the effort) and several others, seeks precisely this balance between potential and attained health.
The i-Limb Ultra Revolution is the latest innovation from UK-based prosthetic developers Touch Bionics.
For companies new to innovation, I recommend cross-functional training that runs in tandem with new product innovation projects.
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Much as I love the march of technology and innovation, I remain skeptical of the techno-optimists who are convinced that just around the corner is the technological solution to all of our problems, ushering in the singularity or, at the very least, the United Federation of Planets.
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When I wrote The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I interviewed the co-owner of an independent electronics retailer, Abt Electronics, a Glenview, Illinois, business that innovates around the customer experience.
Lately, his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.
In what I have termed elsewhere the age of hyper-innovation perception management is becoming a key skill.
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" I like the term i-side economics for investment and innovation and individual incentive rather than g-side economics, as in "what has the government given me lately?
Earlier today I wrote about the most important aspects of innovation - the one thing you cannot do without in innovation is strong, committed leadership.
"As far as I'm concerned - bring it on, as long as we're all on a level playing field - I think competition drives down price and drives innovation, " he said.
Over the last 30 months, my i-GATE efforts have created a proactive, two-way link between national laboratories and entrepreneurs, industry, innovation networks, venture capital firms, universities, business support services, and economic development resources in order to accelerate the commercialization of innovative energy technologies and grow a cohesive innovation ecosystem.
During the last 5 years, I saw first-hand the struggles within the banks to support innovation.
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In the 150-person company I head, we try to instill a culture of innovation.
On the consulting side, prior to leading New Markets I was a long-time colleague of Harvard Business School Professor (and innovation legend) Clayton Christensen in building his advisory practice.
From where I sit in the technology-based economic development community, federal support for regional innovation programs is also vital for our economic recovery.
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As I highlighted in my previous blog entry, a bottom-up approach to regional innovation is a recurring theme in current policy discussions across the county.
Cross-pollination among companies is what drives so much of innovation, so I would not project a lot onto this event.
But I have faith in the American people -- in their capacity for hard work and innovation, in their commitment to one another, and their courage to face adversity.
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Since joining PARC, a Xerox company approaching its 10-year anniversary as a business for open innovation with multiple clients, I have been focused on the following question: just what will happen to invention and innovation in this second economy?
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Cutting costs, being conservative and surviving while your competitors make high-risk moves is an alternative to an innovation approach, although not one I would usually counsel.
Whilst there are many arguments that hold true - one being that businesses suffer from the increasing burden of completing government paper work and tax returns - I personally think that significantly more should be done to bring business, entrepreneurship and innovation into the educational process.
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The other day I was lucky to moderate a panel on innovation at The New York Forum, a budding Davos-type event.
Ubisoft has managed to inject real originality and innovation in a five-year-old franchise and produced the best stealth game I have played to date.
Within a few weeks, I am to attend meetings on a multi-year social entrepreneurship effort in Germany, a new social innovation strategy in France, and a new round of policies as part of the EU-wide Social Business Initiative.
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And he is likely to say that the government could do more through its own procurement and purchasing to support innovation - which is likely to strike a chord with many of the businesses to whom I talk.
"I believe - perhaps erroneously - that in my own small way I'm putting a brake on the hurtling wheels of technical innovation and especially the relentless infiltration of the internet into every corner of our lives, " he wrote recently... his point only marginally undermined by the fact his comments were written for an AOL discussion page.
These partnerships focus administrative connection and researcher interaction through the i-GATE consortium in order to leverage technology transfer, accelerate commercialization, assist workforce development and training, and increase innovation.
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