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Understanding the Innovation Landscape needed for Enabling Technologies in the World’s Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

To have any chance to reverse these temperature rises there is an increasing emphasis on innovation solutions within the technology that is required for the Worlds energy system. Much of the investments need to be directed away from fossil fuels (the primary carbon emitters) into clean technologies. Behind-the-meter batteries.

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

Exploring space offered a two-fold opportunity; it had promise for both military and civilian technological advancement and an invaluable demonstration of prowess on the world stage. The Cold War ended, and civilian technology companies began innovating and building off of government designs to deliver their own products.

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Increasing innovation focus on the end-user segments within the energy transition story

Paul Hobcraft

When you investigate and research the energy transition that is underway, the higher focus to date has been on the progress to replace fossil fuel with renewable power generation technologies. Here, it is the combination of new system designs and ways to operate, combined with technological innovation.

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Biased by Design

Boxes and Arrows

While my parents worked long past sunset, I played on the sidewalk of my parents’ company, Design Matters. Before it was a podcast, Design Matters—one of the first agencies in the San Francisco Bay area—was my personal experience with design. By 2015, the divide was down to a nearly equal balance, 53.2%

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). 2005), plus their orchestration in the focal firm’s internal value chain form the third dimension within the design of a new business model.

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4 Tips for Designing Apple Watch Apps

Boxes and Arrows

The global wearable technology marketplace is growing at a staggering rate, estimated to increase from $7.1 billion in 2015 to $12.6 One of the hottest segments in that market is smartwatches. million units in 2014 to nearly 25 million units in 2015. billion by 2018. Pay attention to your app’s style and branding.

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Focusing on Innovation for our Energy Transition we are all undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

If we are to meet the mandated Paris Agreement of 2015, where member states agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C versus pre-industrial levels by 2050, we have to look at every climate change mitigation we can find. It is their combined disciplines and understanding that can push design and solutions in a continued, innovative way.

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