If you want to truly grow your business, you need to invite people and companies to move forward. I recently wrote about why it is so important to reach out beyond our own four walls of our organizations to embrace open innovation in my weekly newspaper column. There are a lot of different approaches that…
Grow your own meat? Killing animals for meat may someday become a thing of the past. Scientist Mark Post is the head of the department of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and he is at the forefront of developing research to produce meat without the need for livestock breeding. In this video,…
In my weekly newspaper column I talk about how we’re hearing that innovative technology is beginning to transform the poorest areas of developing nations in South and Central America, Africa, Asia and beyond. This is great news: New well-drilling equipment and water filters are providing clean drinking water to many impoverished communities. Inexpensive mobile phones,…
LEGO® has found a way to bring consumers, manufacturers and anyone else with an innovative toy idea to try out crowdsourcing. LEGO CUUSOO (meaning “imagination” in Japanese) is a new international web-based open innovation and crowd sourcing platform. You simply create a LEGO project, share your idea and see what other people think. Once the…
