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Energy technology needs more rapid innovation cycles

Paul Hobcraft

I have been consuming the latest flagship report, released today, 10th September 2020, by the IEA called “ Energy Technology Perspectives 2020. The report is over 400 pages long and is framed as a guide book for all involved in the energy transition. Spillovers (strong synergies with technology advances elsewhere).

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Book Review: What about the Future? by Fred Phillips

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm returning today to one of my favorite activities - a book review. Good books are simply too rare, and good books about topics important to innovators are unfortunately even more rare. The book I'm reviewing today is entitled What about the Future? And that's what this book seeks to provide.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

Discontinuous innovation represents a seismic shift in how industries function and evolve. In the book, Christensen distinguishes between two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and discontinuous innovation. Examples include Electric Vehicles (EVs), and streaming media like Spotify or Netflix.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Proponents of this belief argue that familiarity with industry jargon, processes, and nuances is indispensable.

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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Yet what this forum was a bringing me back to was the Fourth Industrial Revolution , it helps deliver a far sharper focus on its impact, potential, and scope beyond just manufacturing.Now, this was the major ‘bright spot’ of future potential. The whole success of this fourth industrial revolution is about running on knowledge.

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Technological Revolutions and the Governance Gap

Tim Kastelle

The problem that Shoshana Zuboff outlines in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is one of governance. As technology races ahead, the norms and institutions that we need to support (or contain) it lag behind. This is technology operating at the layer of Fashion. One important missing part is time.

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Technological Revolutions and the Governance Gap

Tim Kastelle

The problem that Shoshana Zuboff outlines in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is one of governance. As technology races ahead, the norms and institutions that we need to support (or contain) it lag behind. This is technology operating at the layer of Fashion. One important missing part is time.