Patricia Seybold conducted a case study concerning “The Anatomy of Innovation”. One of the main results is a kind of checklist for innovations within large organizations:

Hire an outside renegade.
Have him build and sell his vision.
Let him create his own team.
Locate the team off-site.
Take a blank slate approach.
Create a blueprint with an integrated cross-functional team.
Have the [...]

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Flapping its little wings 30 times per second
made of PET film, balsa wood and carbon
built by a research team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands
with a total weight of 3.07 grams

equipped with a camera

It’s the world’s smallest camera plane – the DelFly Micro (found at technovelgy)!

Maybe James Bond should ask Q for that!

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