innovation 1.07 03042010
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This is the first of a series of conferences for French Executives in the the attempt to open their eyes and their minds in the search for an answer to the future following the dictum "if you can\'t beat them....join them and swim with the sharks"TRANSCRIPT
"A laser, is a solution seeking a problem.”
1964 quote from a NYTimes article on
Theodore H. Maiman the man who built the first operational laser
Overture
Allegro moderato
How much does it cost ?
Who benefits ?
Who pays ?
When can you deliver it?
What are we talking about ?
Symphony of I-N-N-O-V-A-T-IO-N
First Movement
Andantino
Innovation never
disappearsbecausecuriosity neverdies
Culture & Education
Culture fosters curiosity
Education structures & channels
curiosity
When culture is latent and education is monopolized in its access and crystallized by a caste Nomenklaturacuriosity wanes away
The only innovation is marked by the cooptation of classes of Apparaticks & their self-reproduction as part of the Nomenklatura
Latent culture +
Nomenklatura oriented education =
stifling curiosity =
Zero or little innovation
Intermezzo
Second Movement
Andante con brio
Absolute need for
Curiosity & Empirics
Absolute need, through empirics, of curiosity
surfaces where there is a starving hunger for ideas and economic improvement of self,
where the undetected of today and the unexpected of tomorrow are motors of venture and adventure that will create wealth and in the process defy Nomeklatura and challenge the Apparatick
Where the dream becomes reality is where there is a fertile environment
Intermezzo
Third Movement
Fuga
Venture Capital &
Management of Risk
human, environmental &
financial
the sense & appreciation of risk based on needs and desires
Human Capital
the “hungry” of the world that are structured in their claim of sharing the richness as spelled out by Adam Smith & Marx & Keynes, the prophets of HOPE
Environmental
Where Academia and Industry work hand-in-hand un-afraid of the vulgarity of the word profit and un-tamed in their desire and want to advance Science & Technology for the well being of themselves, their organizations,
their scholarly institutions
Financial
Where Capital flows
Where risk is assessed on the basis of three simple questions
How much will it cost?Who will benefit?
When can you deliver it?
Intermezzo
Fourth Movement
con Fuoco
Unlocking Innovation
UnabatedAmbitiousSolitary
Relentless
Pursue of a
Dream coupled with
RemorslessRuthless
S-E-L-F-I-S-H-N-E-S-S
(as in sense of self )
&
L-U-C-K
(sense of self-predestination)
Keeping in mind that
those who
D-A-R-E
WIN
“Les grosses boites finissent par produire d’abord de la la hierarchie”
quote from the article
Bâtisseur de rêves – a portrait of Elon Musk
Le Monde , Mardi 30 Mars 2010
SELF-REPRODUCTION OF
NOMENKLATURA =
COOPTATION OF APPARATICK =
BLOOD RELATION S=
MENTAL DEFICIT OF IMAGINATION=
END OF DREAM = NO INNOVATION
