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“The scientist describes what is;
the engineer creates what never was.”
- Theodore von Karman
Changes in the Nature of Engineering
How
Pure Knowledge
Knowledge is Used
Technology Ecology IP
50% of GDP
Economic Network Share
Contribution Scale Ideas
Product Lifecycles
May Not be What They Seem
Environmental Responsibility
Reduce Make
vs.
Recycle Reuse Renew Use
“Efciency” “Lifecycle”
The McDonough/Braungart View*
Resources/Materials
“Food”
Make
Upcycle
“Waste = Food”
Use
Waste Renew?
Waste Waste
Safety Tip: Don't Cross the Streams!
Biological Technical
Stuff that's eaten Metals, plastics, solvents...
Resources Resources
Waste
X Waste
Safety Tip: Don't Cross the Streams!
Biological Technical
Stuff that's eaten Metals, plastics, solvents...
Resources Resources
...
Waste
X Waste
Big Idea: Products => Services
> ...
Environmental Responsibility
Stay Legal
Business Opportunities
Biggest Impacts
Low Hanging Fruit
Intellectual Responsibility
*
“Innovation Happens Elsewhere”
Make it Free
(as in freedom, not beer)
Eight
Axioms
of
Innovation
Management
Managing Innovation
#1
You have to be in it
for the long term
Managing Innovation
#2
Conventional
wisdom often isn't
Managing Innovation
#3
Vision is top-down;
innovation is
bottom-up
Managing Innovation
#4
Embrace failure
Managing Innovation
#5
Disrupt thyself
Managing Innovation
#6
Small, smart teams
2
10 or 10
Managing Innovation
#7
Technology transfer
is a contact sport
Managing Innovation
#8
It's all about the
(right) people
Life Philosophy
Don't Solve
Problems.
Create Possibilities.
Thank You!