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5. Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

The more you know about a particular topic, the more difficult it is for you to think about it in a different way. Oil engineers worked on this challenge for twenty years without any viable solution until they discovered open innovation. Interestingly, the winning solution did not come from the oil industry.

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Powerful Innovation for Energy

eZassi

Adjacent technologies impacting the energy industry can be harnessed by collaborative project teams of engineers and leading organizations who seek to modernize power systems and continue to utilize renewable resources. Let’s plug in to some current topics in this sector. Power Hungry Industries.

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Drones and tradesmen. Is that possible?

etventure

Who these “residents” are and what topics and technologies they work on, we would like to present in our “wavespace Residents” series. With the help of drones, roofs are measured with centimeter accuracy and the data is used by roofers, architects and civil engineers as the basis for their further work.

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Working through a proposed Energy Transition Evaluation

Innovating4Energy

I certainly got the inspiration from this paper for constructing this 18S for evaluating new energy transition innovation solutions. Systems should address all critical aspects of design, construction, operation, and maintenance. So does this 18S framework provide this? Increased system efficiency, less complexity, more efficient.

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How to Get a Quantity and Quality of Ideas That You Will Never Get From Innovation Brainstorming.

Innovate2Grow Experts

Today were going to dive deep into the topic of how you bring powerful diversity into an idea generating meeting. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. You can go to i2ge.com/podcast or iTunes.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions (“see schedule&# :[link] The remaining Summit sessions will be published in the next two weeks. | “Preview&# :[link] | “Keynote&# :[link] | “Day 1&# :[link] | Day 2 | Day 3 | “Closing Plenary&# :[link] | iTunes Del.icio.us Is interaction necessary?

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User Experience Week

Boxes and Arrows

UX Week Keynote Discussion – Peter Merholz and Don Norman UX Week 2008 kicked off with an on-stage conversation between the President and founder of Adaptive Path, Peter Merholz , and industry legend Don Norman. User Experience (UX) Week was held in San Francisco, CA from August 12 – 15. Sketches from UX Week.

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