Innovation should never be assumed or taken for granted, it requires, dedication, tenacity and wisdom

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Peter Cochrane
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2. It is all about change...
...and even he cries
throughout the process !

3. This is the only human who likes change
...and even he cries
throughout the process !

4. Innovation is about Speed & Capacity

5. It always has been!

6. A meeting of canal owners debate the
threat of the steam train !
Why would coal
want to travel @
60mph?

7. We paid for our progress with destructive
‘food-to-waste’ cycles !
Transforming raw materials into products to
be buried later is unsustainable...

8. Mother nature does ‘food-to-waste-to-food’....
and so should we if we want a sustainable future
...and this begs the question, “could we do the same?”

9. The only potential to do this is with technology that
sits at the juncture of....
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Bio Nano

10. To participate we need high speed connectivity
+ access to computational power...
FTTH/FTTO and The Cloud

11. And globally distributed facilities and people...

12. So, what makes innovation fly ?
A good leader A seductive Supportive
A good idea
& a good team business plan investors

13. And receptive customers!
Big Problem Desperation Lots of Money
& Panic

14. What stops innovation ?
Destructive
Old minds Old industry Short Termism
investors

15. You need a visionaries and risk takers...
...but there is a fine line between calculated risks and
doing something really dumb!

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