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Holistic Innovation – Fusion of Product and Service Innovations

Holistic Innovation – Fusion of Product and Service Innova ...

The successful creation of innovations is considered to be one of the key factors for companies to generate sustainable competitive advantages and corporate growth. But the exclusive focus on creating smashing new product innov...

 
 
Ideas In Action – High Transparency at Dell Idea Storm

Ideas In Action – High Transparency at Dell Idea Storm

The multinational technology corporation Dell is giving interested users the chance to post ideas on products, best practices and general topics. Other users can comment and further promote or demote them. In a specific section...

 
 
Reverse Innovation

Reverse Innovation

Traditionally, innovations found their way from developed to emerging markets in the form of less-sophisticated products at lower prices. The numbers of examples that work the other way around are increasing. It is more and mor...

 
 
Scientists up for murder as ethical issues for research are abolished

Scientists up for murder as ethical issues for research are ...

All ethical issues are removed from research and development, but there is an uprising of an opposition until there are calls for researchers to be accused of murder. As research trials on humans becomes prevalent, vulnerable s...

 
 
Destabilization of the innovation system

Destabilization of the innovation system

Go back to the destabilization of the economy and losing funding. Society and the economy destabilize the innovation system. In Greece, for example, I imagine many Greek researchers will no longer look for research jobs in Gr...

 
 
Catastrophe related to technology

Catastrophe related to technology

e.g. a nuclear power plant meltdown. Something could happen, because people and societies always think they can control technology. After such a catastrophe there will be some kind of rethink about basic technology and progress...

 
 
The emergence of research nationally

The emergence of research nationally

Which is something that has happened because of the crisis. People are now defending their own turf and trying to maximize their own research – no longer a European approach but a national approach. It is going back to the wr...

 
 
More important for futurists is to understand what the decision makers are doing with the information.

More important for futurists is to understand what the decis ...

According to Karl Heinz LEITNER: "Future researchers are not so interested in this question, because they want to provoke and create. But I think the community should better understand what happens with this information."

 
 
Rapid Innovation Testing

Rapid Innovation Testing

New technologies and the possibilities of digitalisation make innovation processes cheaper and more efficient, as they enable easy testing and evaluation – offline and online. Enterprises increasingly use digital and conventi...

 
 
A Soured Economy Prompted a Boom in Crowdsourcing

A Soured Economy Prompted a Boom in Crowdsourcing

The current global economic crisis has a pervasive impact on national economies and labour markets, resulting in increasing unemployment. Due to the fact that many unemployed workers do no longer have the chance to find a perma...

 
 
A Holistic Approach: Demand and Supply-Driven Innovation Policy

A Holistic Approach: Demand and Supply-Driven Innovation Pol ...

So far, traditional innovation policy mostly focuses on the development of innovation, the supply side of innovation, so to speak. Researchers from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies identified four main trends con...

 
 
Top down approach to nano-research excludes researchers ideas (lack of interest in science)

Top down approach to nano-research excludes researchers idea ...

Lack of interest in science from young scholars as top down approach to nano R&D priorities (closed shop mentality) discourages researchers from taking up career in science.

 
 
Who needs men!

Who needs men!

True cellular engineering allows the creation of humans without the need for traditional conception. Men become surplus to requirements as the female race deems males redundant!

 
 
Research outsourcing

Research outsourcing

India and China offer high quality and low cost research services to the EU and US (signal for outsourcing the majority of the EU R&D).

 
 
R&D collaboration tax

R&D collaboration tax

US and EU countries decide to levy high taxes on cross border R&D collaborations. Early indicator for research isolationism. For instance, Western governments fear that China and India are gaining competitive advantages through...

 
 
 
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