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The future of 3D printing

This is a 3D-printed shoe I recently found search Flickr for images on 3D printing. It is obvious that the quality of 3D printing is rapidly getting better and according to the discussions on the Internet most people seems fascinated of and apparently caught in the race towards higher and higher quality. The problem with [...]

Would a tax on IP help?

Cascio on Shirky and drivers behind change

It is enough… It is time I to stop thinking deeper on how and what to write on this blog and start writing something. It is just a blog for Gods sake! OK, let’s go… I will start softly by commenting on Jamais Cascio’s post: An Insufficient Present where he argues that the future belongs [...]

Turning innovations to business – make the analysis first!

The other day I wrote a post about one possible obstacle to be innovative. Today I will follow up with a post discussing the difficulty of turning technical innovations into business. Since the mid 90:s I have met many people trying to build businesses based on their technical innovations. In most cases they have been [...]

The case for innovation outside R&D labs

Through the blog Tomorrow’s Trends i came across Scott Berkun’s blog and the interesting post Why research labs fail at innovation. It turns out that Scott have released a book on the subject “The Myths of Innovation” which I haven’t read. In the post he structures his findings this way: [Generating ideas is] certainly hard [...]