How to get from insight to market in a complex, sometimes chaotic, fast-moving world.
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Biotech startups may no longer need to get funded over their IP. It's difficult to call it a trend yet, but a significant part of the VC deal flow in this sector might be soon with startups letting go of public research tech transfer and/or patents. In
In China Nike, Adidas, Mercedes, DolceGabana, and Dior are losing ground in favor of national brands. These brands are the canary in the coal mine of two things I've been explaining since Trump's election in the U.S.: 1️⃣ The Chinese consumer is becoming increasingly proud
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I was discussing this morning the announcement of a new Amazon retail adventure: a physical apparel store. This is interesting on several levels: (1) Amazon keeps on pushing on the old economy, not only by making with its online store (and immense, semi-automated physical supply chain) but also by trying
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With Airbnb, Uber is probably now the last surviving hyper-scale startup of the 2010s. But unlike Airbnb, Uber is not in good shape. On paper, Uber dominates ride-sharing worldwide with a massive footprint of over +100 million users and a dominant market share wherever it operates. Uber amounts to about
The U.S. Congress is only now begrudgingly considering what to do with self-driving cars. Don’t smile too much. Most of you are aware that deciding who is responsible in case of a fatal collision is not a piece of cake (lines of code won’t repay the families’
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Questions are the key for innovation, progress, growth, exploration, and so many business issues and personal development too. For if there is no question, there is no drive to search for answers. For as long as I remember I’ve been a questioner. I’ve questioned myself a lot, learned
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Let’s kick off 2022 with a few simple reminders about innovation and, more specifically, things you should know by now but that you still might get wrong. I already addressed a few of these ideas these last few years but never in the same article: 1. Customer-centric is a
Our Mobility-as-a-Service Report (MaaS) commissioned by the French National Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME [https://www.ademe.fr/en]) and the General for Infrastructure, Transport, and the Sea (DGITM [https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/direction-generale-des-infrastructures-des-transports-et-mer-dgitm] ) is now available. It was researched and produced with my friends Julien de Labaca [http:
While being the uncontested leader in 2014, by 2020, Samsung had lost China entirely. From an 18% market share of the Chinese mobile phone market in 2014 to a measly 2% in 2018, by 2020, Samsung had virtually disappeared from the Chinese mainland market. What went wrong, and why should
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The global market paradigm is unraveling as we speak. While the US is slowly acknowledging that, no matter the metrics you’ll want to consider, they will be second to China within the next ten years; the rest of the world is already adjusting. Mapping the different national strategies to
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As a follow-up to my series of articles on the Covid-19 crisis I’d like to share a few ideas on what corporations could do to adjust and embrace turbulent times. Now, a few words of warning. I generally dislike these kinds of discussion because they end up giving advice
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Sharing a great quote fished by Nicolas COLIN [https://europeanstraits.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-a-new-china?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDEzNTgwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNzU1MzgsIl8iOiJVZExHYiIsImlhdCI6MTU4NjkzNzE4OCwiZXhwIjoxNTg2OTQwNzg4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTc1MDMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.o7LCeOxbH2IvtUDeTkX1NRAdGeOretFOmQOssSbYbgY] on how China innovation culture compares to America (and the West). When ‘normal’ means the world is in flux, adapting to it is an on-going process of problem resolution. The