Professor Applegate’s appeal which I’ve cited in my last post is a kind of opener for a study published by Harvard researchers: Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage The executive summary of this article says: Collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. No longer is the creation [...]
Lynda M. Applegate, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, published an article called Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage. Therein she lists guidelines [that] can help you leverage disruption to turn ideas into opportunities to create sustainable business advantage: Listen to—and learn from—the market Expand your horizons Identify potential disruptors that could [...]
Texas Instruments has developed a new gauge on battery life. The main innovation is that their system measures in addition to voltage also electrical properties. Credit: ABS Alskan [The] chip [...] can tell mobile-phone users down to the minute how much talking or standby time they have left–a degree of accuracy much greater than that [...]
The editors of Technology Review once again have elected the most innovative people below the age of 35. This years over all winner is David Berry. He managed to genetically engineer organisms that are able to create hydrocarbons which you can use as fuel for example. So let’s call it a vision for renewable petroleum! [...]
