Yesterday I drew on the work of Clayton Christensen and Efosa Ojomo to identify 5 causes of non-consumption of products or solutions: Lack of awareness… Read More »Thinking again about market-creating innovations (2): Marketing Problems
If you’re working in a for- or not-for-profit organisation working for change – trying to make something happen that you think should be happening, or… Read More »Thinking again about market-creating innovations (1)
I’m still a bit sketchy on how market creating innovations are qualitatively different from sustaining and efficiency innovation, but these ideas are important. Highly recommended.… Read More »Efosa Ojomo (and Clayton Christensen) on market-creating innovation and overcoming barriers to consumption (2)
I’m always a big believer in, okay, start a small and scrappy project that can experiment and move nimble and move fast and can move… Read More »Sal Khan on starting small and moving without permission
Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison have a thing about the speed of scientific progress, and progress and innovation in general. They say the pace of… Read More »Action. Now. Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison’s FastGrants
There are plenty of problems you could solve. Your job is to choose a couple of important ones and bring energy and intelligence to bear… Read More »Making things better
Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity. Matt Ridley – How Innovation Works I finished this in audiobook form today. Highly… Read More »The parent of prosperity
… with very few exceptions, man-made technologies evolve from previous man-made technologies and are not invented from scratch. This is a key characteristic with evolutionary… Read More »Matt Ridley on the Wright Brothers: innovation is gradual
Autocatalysing innovations are innovations whose outputs lead to a virtuous cycle of further adoption and innovation. Steam engines The earliest steam engines were used to… Read More »Autocatalysing innovations
So who invented the motor car running on an internal combustion engine? Like the steam engine – and as I will show later, the computer… Read More »Innovation as network phenomenon: Matt Ridley on who invented the motor car