Veille sectorielle d’innovations régénératives
Link to video:
Cette base données ci :-)
Comment faire ?
Here is a non-exhaustive list of other sources of knowledge:
The basics: a top-ten list of best selling authors on the subject. Invest in the ‘need-to-have’ books. If they do not exist, you just might have to write one
The competition: what are they up to? What did they try? What succeeded, what failed, and why? Go to them, ask, you’ll be surprised how much they will tell you
In large organisations: check inside your own or neighboring department. What has been imagined, and likely filed away in the basement? There’s likely great stuff hidden down there
Seek out published studies by the big consulting firms — PwC, Deloitte, EY, McKinsey — or various experts in your business area
- Academic and scientific publications like Academia, Google Scholar, or specialized journals can be wonderful resources
Online:
- YouTube
- Slideshare
- Linkedin articles
- Medium blogs
- Ted Talks
Annual conferences, trade shows, lecture series and other events:
- Check their keynote speakers and follow them on YouTube or blogs
- See their executive summaries and presentations
- Start-up labs, incubators related to your team, universities and their digital fabrication laboratories (fablabs), graduate student groups and theses
- Online courses on your subject. Invest a little and learn a lot
- Coworkings, its ecosystems and events
- Hackathons, which can yield fascinating results, especially among those who do not reach the podium
- Talk to specialized journalists or scientists – read specialized press
- Go to cities or areas specialized in your subject (Silicon Valley for techs, Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) for chips, Costa Rica for sustainability,...
Foundations and their projects, fellows and awards
Sectorial think tanks or federations (reports)
- Study patents; they’re completely open and accessible. Linux and Tesla did. However, don’t get too obsessed with patenting your concepts; it costs a fortune
- Look into other business areas preparing transversal new-entrant business models
- Sense the ‘weak signals.’ Important innovations rarely come from mainstream thinking
- Talk continuously to your own stakeholders, and future allies, and co-construct a business with them
- Create your scouting network and communities worldwide: gather together allies who also are interested in your subject.
- Join Facebook and LinkedIn expert groups
- Imagine your own business intel approach, and dig in
Whichever routes you pursue, keep yourself well informed, and continually dip back into the well. Every week, somewhere in the world, someone comes up with new angles, new concepts, startling innovations, and most of it is going on way under the radar.
Finally, be careful about the ego of “the entrepreneur”. Don’t start to believe you are the one. You are not. Well, you are, but you are not at the same time. There are thousands of really smart people out there, progressing every day, willing to contribute brilliantly to addressing these historic challenges. Many of them are convinced that they are the best and the brightest… and a lot of them are. If you’re well connected, with a well-developed sense of purpose and a commitment to the common good, karmic synchronicities will conspire to make you succeed. If, on the other hand, your ego, short-term agendas and fears are guiding you, other entrepreneurial teams will be way ahead of you.
The bottom line is knowing which unique talents, skills and passions drive you, and how you will bring these to the world. Don’t try to do it alone. Learn from a wide array of very different disciplines, information sources and people.
Wisdom in action:
The buzzing, polinting bee, by its nature, regenerates and nurtures life. That is a side effect of her job. Let’s learn from her, and shift from extracting from nature to developing profitable activities that regenerate people, nature and ecosystems of economic activity. Look for how to accomplish this as a core business, or as a positive secondary effect. The beauty of it is that once you start to operate with wisdom, pragmatic common sense and heart, the benefits will be come about naturally.