🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 2
In this second part of our series on how to build a proper corporate innovation portfolio, we are talking numbers, critical mass of projects, and optionality over serendipity!
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Feminine innovation culture
On 6th of May 2022, Meaningful Design Agency [https://www.meaningful.fr/] has
invited me to share my experience and tips (in French) about the feminine side
of innovation [https://www.icopilots.com/feminine-values-in-uncertain-times/].
Here is the translation of what they shared in their newsletter to introduce the
talk:
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The BS narrative of 'startups can't scale in Europe'
Whether in France, Germany, Spain, or the Netherlands, we all have this ongoing
narrative: startups can't scale in Europe.
And yes, all of us, we got pretty good at the startup game as it was in the
nineties and early 2000s in the U.S. We have interesting
Etsy and the prisoner's dilemma
Launched in 2005, Etsy is one of the less-known U.S. platforms. With an initial goal of connecting individuals selling hand-made products and vintage finds to the global consumer market. Etsy carved its own nice between eBay and Amazon as a lifestyle business supporter, bringing side revenues to more than
The new normal of tech at war
From Starlink deploying in Ukraine
[https://www.icopilots.com/musk-the-gafams-and-ukraine/]...
> Is Starlink that important? It wouldn't be possible to restore 10 km of cable
connection between villages in Chernigiv region after serious battles so quick.
Normally it takes few months. Another case: provider Baryshivka-Net resumed the
network
🟢 Is luxury soluble in technology?
In 2015 I discussed to which extent technology could be leveraged by luxury brands and if tech brands could ever invade the luxury space. Let's see where we are in 2022.
There's a (giant) canary in the self-driving coalmine
With around 26 million inhabitants, Shanghai is the third-largest city in the world after Tokyo and Delhi, and it's currently under a hard lockdown. Shanghai is also one of the most active digital consumer markets, spearheaded by numerous delivery and supply-chain innovators.
One of them is JD.com