7 things every environmental entrepreneur should know
A lot is happening at the intersection of environmentalism and entrepreneurship these days, and it’s creating a hybrid form: the environmental entrepreneur. Some are coming from the entrepreneurial...
View ArticleDesigning Innovation: Something old, something new
Apple’s new iTunes music store feature, iTV, is an attempt to revolutionize the video distribution world in the same way that iTunes disrupted the music industry (and created podcasting). And Apple...
View ArticleEvolving metaphors
Mike at Life on the Road has carried the conversation about MySpace in an interesting direction (see his post as well as his comments to my previous post). One of his central arguments is that social...
View ArticleBreaking through
What makes a breakthrough product? What’s the secret sauce that anoints one version of an idea while ignoring others? Charles Wilson has a couple of nice posts on the Kindle (Kindle Up; breakthrough...
View ArticleAutomist, another student-driven design innovation
One of the perks of my job is to serving on the Advisory Board of Design London, a joint venture between Imperial College and the Royal College of Arts. There, as in similar programs that bring...
View ArticleCHE Article on teaching entrepreneurship
A brief post to mention an article out now in Chronicle of Higher Education in which I talk about the need to teach entrepreneurship broadly—and what needs to be taught: 7 Ways to Make Students More...
View ArticleProblem-finding, by Tom Kelley of IDEO
Albert Szent-Gyorgi, who won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for discovering vitamin C, once said “Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” When it...
View ArticleWhat our leaders tell us about our selves
Steve Jobs died. The outpouring of sorrow and admiration is nothing short of stunning, and more than most heads of state would engender. Jobs deserves credit for so much that Apple (and Pixar) have...
View ArticleReprising W+K’s 10 lessons for young designers
I recently ran across this list while reading about the challenges faced by John Maeda as he moved from software engineer and computer scientist to President of the Rhode Island School of Design. It...
View ArticleFacebook, TikTok and the hack for innovation
In Om Malik’s recent post “Unicorns, Red Queen & Startup Reality” he talks about the kerfuffle regarding Facebook copying TikTok, I was chatting with a friend about the increased frequency with...
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