by Frederik Wouters | May 24, 2019 | Perspectives, Strategic innovation
Innovation is perceived as the new normal. Nevertheless, innovation involves taking risks and goes with learning and failing. To ease the risks and costs of innovation, your business can have access to subsidies. Every type of innovation (incremental, breakthrough,...
by Dany Robberecht | May 2, 2019 | FMCG & consumer, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
I inherited my coffee addiction from my father. However, we’re also very different coffee drinkers and use different devices to brew our morning shot. I want my coffee to be as strong as possible. So one cup is sufficient to wake me up completely in the morning. He...
by Dany Robberecht | Apr 19, 2019 | Home, city & mobility, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
Steden en overheden hebben op allerlei gebieden te maken met maatschappelijke problemen die vragen om forse innovaties: mobiliteit en congestie, luchtvervuiling, oplopende zorguitgaven, klimaatverandering, ineffectieve schuldhulpverlening en een ontoegankelijke...
by Dany Robberecht | Feb 11, 2019 | Perspectives, Strategic innovation
Why would you look into technology transfer from another sector – like space – as a means for your current innovation? The condensed answer: to do more with less, to take a shortcut towards your new solution. Just 3 examples of how space technologies have...
by Dany Robberecht | Oct 24, 2018 | FMCG & consumer, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
While playing beach tennis on vacation, I was wondering: “How come these beach ball sets always wear out by the end of the vacation?” It struck me that these cheap pallets are a good example of fine value engineering. I get just enough value for the lowest possible...
by Wouter Hendrickx | Oct 4, 2018 | Life Sciences, Perspectives, Strategic innovation
For decades, technology development was determining the speed of innovation. In this digital era, market adoption seems to be running behind the technical possibilities. And that also applies to medical innovations. As soon as you start pushing anything groundbreaking...
