Year: 2022

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM and how different countries are monetizing this to drive economies: an excellent read. http://lnkd.in/DkhU8M View in LinkedIn

TECH CITY LONDON puts finalist's elevator pitches up for public viewing and votes. The democratization of candidate applications is so different from the discrete pitch in a plush VC office to a few cognisante. This is more akin to crowdsourcing and is a totally different animal that has a game show flavor. Unlikely to vanish, it is an emerging trend. Gone are the days (only 20 years ago) where your pitch was primarily your (thesis) of a Biz Plan. Now personality and charisma are a key ingredient. http://lnkd.in/SV6q6Q View in LinkedIn

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC is the emerging model of many types of traditionally product-centric businesses, just as Prof Chesbrough (father of Open Innovation) suggested; previously, the model was customers circling around a value chain. Now many organizations are circling the customer. This is paralleled by the emerging model in medical care to be patient-centric, rather than a passive patient circling around a medical care system. Both of these parallel changes are big, some describing as a Copernican Revolution (sun around earth). http://lnkd.in/UDPtNk View in LinkedIn

NEW GIANT VIRUS discovered that may challenge our views about the existing forms of life on Earth. Quoting the author Claverie: ""Huge discoveries remain to be made at the most fundamental level that may change our present conception about the origin of life and its evolution." Just another reminder, that come almost daily, that our knowledge about "life, the universe and everything" is very rudimentary. We have just the tip of the iceberg in sight. " " http://lnkd.in/ZNKmPp View in LinkedIn

A POST-PC, MOBILE-FIRST ERA: an App market of 115 bn USD in the US alone predicted by 2017. A staggering 89 bn mobile Apps will have been downloaded by the end of 2015, for an industry that Apple launched in only 2008. This rocket-fueled transformation of an industry in only five years has only just begun, according to industry observers. This case study will be an historic chapter in B-School case studies. http://lnkd.in/upCdVQ View in LinkedIn

REPROFILING of drugs designed for one indication for a new condition is not new, but it is a great strategy, as toxicology is de-risked, as the drug has typically already been in man, and enjoys a shorted approval. While popular among small specialty Pharma companies, big Pharma has tended to ignore it due to the lack of Composition of Matter IP, and a supposedly weaker Use patent protection. There have been recent European initiatives to comb through these abandoned molecules systematically, which is a sea-change of historically limited access by big Pharma to these shelved projects. " " http://lnkd.in/En83UE View in LinkedIn

UNIVERSITY ORIGINS of entrepreneurs from a 2,500 startup survey was ranked rather close to expectations (Stanford, Harvard etc). Tel Aviv University was the only foreign university that made the grade, curiously, especially given the large percentage of foreign-born entrepreneurs in the US. What would worldwide data look like?" " http://lnkd.in/KY66TV View in LinkedIn

AUTOLOGOUS iPS trial in Japan approved, with much fanfare. Japan has made a national priority of iPS and is already blasting away on a leadership path, here for macular degeneration. http://lnkd.in/tYHqTy View in LinkedIn

DENTAL STEM CELLS could bring dentistry out of the Mediaeval era of grinding, scraping and blood-letting to the 21st century (at long last!). Curiously, dentistry research has been devoid of modern era medical breakthroughs, despite the obvious promise of enzymatic rinses, gingivitis regeneration, tooth buds, and a host of other modern tools. " " http://lnkd.in/arK-2i View in LinkedIn

FDA is paving the way for new antibiotics to fill the empty pipeline, with initiatives by US and EC to cash incentivize Big Pharma. Better to have an open source RFP for the best ideas worldwide that to back one or two big slow horses. http://lnkd.in/KiiBYc View in LinkedIn