Technology Review presented 10 exciting technologies for 2007. An interessting journey from metamaterials for telecommunications, data storage and solar energy via nanotechnology in medical science to mobile aigmented reality for maps and guidebooks. Come on board! Credit: Technology Review
The NY Times article “How to Improve It? Ask Those Who Use It” on user-driven innovation is worth reading for all of you that are interessted in Eric von Hippel’s open innovation and “lead user” concepts.
Japanese scientists managed to “save” Einstein’s E=MC^2 to the DNA of the bacillus subtilis, a bacterium commonly found in soil. Credit: Wikipedia Besides the obvious fact that this “biological storage media” would definitly have a great advantage because of it’s amazing small size, the bacteria has a second benefit: each time it reproduces itself it [...]
I’ve recently found short but – at least to my mind – useful concepts of some innovation related terms on Innovation Zen (quoting James Brian Quinn and Jordan Baruch, Software-Based Innovation, MIT Sloan Management Review): Innovation consists of the technological, managerial, and social processes through which a new idea or concept is first reduced to [...]
Podcasters wanted to show their power – or in other words their economic relevance. They idea was to push a song on iTunes to show that podcasting and new media is a social movement that has a pretty far reach across the globe. And did it work? Well, the song of the unsigned band “Black [...]
