by Stijn Smet | Apr 24, 2020 | Industry & chemistry, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
During Corona-times, optimists would say that ‘every crisis is a birth’, and for some aspects this is truly the case. Organizations discover that their team can actually work from home, so colleagues adopt a new sense of work-life balance and many elderly are more...
by Dany Robberecht | Mar 26, 2020 | Digital innovation, FMCG & consumer, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
In today’s digital economy, the pace of innovation is unrelenting and creates an urgency for companies to transform. With Covid-19 many are now facing weak business models based on transactional revenue streams. Service design, business model design and finding new...
by Wouter Hendrickx | Feb 5, 2020 | Life Sciences, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
The majority of all medical innovations fail to enter the market due to human rejection. Even though the innovative solution has proven to offer increased efficiency, effectiveness and even cost reduction, the decision maker or end-user is very often not convinced of...
by Dany Robberecht | Dec 2, 2019 | Industry & chemistry, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
GEO living labs can accelerate maritime cooperation between corporations and startup Earth Observation technologies to encourage digitization of maritime systems. Over the last decade, Earth Observation (EO) has grown as more companies and their satellites became...
by Dany Robberecht | Oct 8, 2019 | Industry & chemistry, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
A Flemish Green Deal, launched at the beginning of 2019, should bring the building industry towards a circular economy in Flanders. The partnership nurtures collaborations between manufacturers, builders, local and regional governments, researchers and building...
by Frederik Aldelhof | Sep 12, 2019 | Perspectives, Strategic innovation
An often heard comment nowadays, is that everyone is talking about smart cities, but that little is actually happening. This is in high contrast to the utopian visions and predictions of connected and smart cities during the last decade, as well as to some spectacular...
