What is innovation?
According to Wikipedia: “Innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs. Such innovation takes place through the provision of more-effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models that are made available to markets, governments and society.”
And we couldn’t agree more! But one thing that must be mentioned when talking about innovation — is its future tense. People focus on innovating because they’re concerned about the future and about making it a better place to live.
Martin Wezowki, Chief Designer at SAP, presented us two editions ago his approach on innovation, more exactly about the natural steps he takes in this process: mapping, building and inspiring a future everybody wants to live in.
If we look at the less technical side of innovation, we discover its abilities to open doors to new possible realities, thus people’s imagination towards a better future plays an important role. Martin took a leap into the future and fragmented innovation into steps that need to be taken into consideration when you’re starting this imagination exercise:
- Exponential — the pace of change is faster and faster, going beyond human.
- Convergent — technologies start converging in ways that we didn’t think possible
- Fantastic — science fiction is becoming science facts
Ioana Cozmuta is part of NASA’s think-tank — the innovative team as she likes to say and brought to Techsylvania another perspective on innovation, one from another world. Having her mindset oriented through space, but still with her feet on the ground, Ioana has a broad perspective when it comes to resources for innovation — what terrestrial economy is and what are the differences to resources needed for outer space.
How have the two worlds evolved, what trends are in Space technology and how does innovation really work in her field, you can find out from her talk, if you’ve missed it 👇
One fact that was pointed out in many talks at Techsylvania was that innovation has started to focus on megacities. Their infrastructures have evolved and they are the best illustrators of technology’s emerging features.
“When we talk about change — it’s not just equipment or devices, cities are changing, big cities are changing.” said Ralph Simon, from Mobilium Global. He took us on a journey around the world, showcasing the latest and coolest tech trends.
Have you heard about the collaboration between Google and Levi’s? Well, about this and other edgy examples, you can give a thumb up or down, while listening to Ralph:
Are you eager to find out what will innovation look like in 2020? Stay tuned, Techsylvania is going to unfold many insights.
