About 20 years ago when I was playing with this colorful toy bricks I wouldn’t have imagined that the manufacturer LEGO would once market a special edition for innovation. But now they have a product line called “SERIOUS PLAY“. According to the producer it can be used to: Find out who you are and where [...]
Due to the the recent terrible bridge collapse Stephan Wolfram thought about possible ways to find new bridge designs. The way he suggests is to utilize the power of computers and start a kind of “brute-force design”. The idea is to use simple programs to generate vast numbers of possible bridge designs—say, different possible layouts [...]
Have you ever been in the position that you had to answer this question? Well, based on my experience this isn’t easy at all. But the following video may assist you: [youtube x66lV7GOcNU nolink] Although it sounds tremendously simple, one of my experiments in company with some friends didn’t work. Why? I’m still not sure, [...]
This question dealing with (intellectual) property, patents, trademarks, copyrights and -lefts as well as natural and artificial scarcity concerns me time and again. Credit: Uni Basel If you discuss it with someone from the pharma industry you tend to think that world wouldn’t go round any further if you abolish patents. Contrawise some people promote [...]
I’ve written several times about open concepts (open innovation, open source software, …) and I can take pleasure in many of these ideas. But to be scientifically honest on the one hand and because approaches like the following also find favor with me on the other hand I want to draw your attention to these [...]
