Managing innovation - creating value from ideas
Innovation doesn't just happen. It's not like the cartoons - a lightbulb flashes on above someone's head and that's it. No - it's a journey and we need to understand how best to prepare for that journey, whatever kind of value we are trying to create. This podcast is about some useful lessons we might take on board to help develop our capabilities.For more, see my website:https://johnbessant.org
Podcasting since 2019 • 118 episodes
Managing innovation - creating value from ideas
Latest Episodes
Irresonsible innovation anyone?
Responsible innovation (masquerading under many different labels over time) is now highly visible in conversations around innovation. Whether we’re looking at AI or genetic engineering or geo-engineering we can see the issues being widely debat...
September 12, 2024
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21:06
Hitching a ride to higher productivity
How one man’s innovation provided the missing link for 20th century agricultural revolution.Harry Ferguson is not a name which instantly springs to mind when thinking of entrepreneurs who changed the course of history. Yet his con...
August 20, 2024
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26:02
Cartography matters! - the importance of maps in navigating the uncertain journey of innovation
It’s easy to take maps for granted — but we’d be pretty stuck without them. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. They seem to ...
July 21, 2024
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22:41
Impact intrepreneurship - leveraging the power of organizations for social innovation
We've got a huge challenge around social innovation - to help fix the planet with all the things that we're doing to it and all the things that are happening it's going to take a lot of effort. More precisely a lot of innovation. Ev...
July 03, 2024
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28:40
