tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69949752787076825722024-03-18T08:38:46.872+01:00BusinessDesignCreating an Abundant Future for the Free State of Saxony Fueled by Art, Science and Technology, and Most Important, its Creative CitizensRalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-78639471757884485932019-09-01T13:23:00.000+02:002020-05-11T19:09:06.420+02:00Pluralist Economics - Growth or Degrowth? It's not an either or<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It must have been a social media post mentioning the announcement of the <a href="https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy-2019-economics-in-transformation/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">3rd Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics</span></a> that caught my attention some months ago. The thing that let me even dig deeper was the fact that the Club of Rome (initiator of what became quite a famous research study on the current state of the earth, climate change and how business should be done, "<a href="https://www.clubofrome.org/report/the-limits-to-growth/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">The Limits to Growth</span></a>"; anyone who'd like a quick overview on the book check out the <a href="https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/oltm003ongr01_01/oltm003ongr01_01_0036.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">interview</span> </a>between Willem L. Oltmans and Jay W. Forrester, the creator of the field system dynamics and initiator of the report, which gives a quick glimpse into the book and its concepts that hold largely true still today in the 21st century).<br />
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Having participated in "<a href="https://www.presencing.org/transforming-capitalism-lab" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Transforming Capitalism Lab</span></a>", a sub-prototype of the MOOC "<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/ulab-leading-from-the-emerging-future" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">u.lab - Leading From the Emerging Future</span></a>" that runs again this September for the 6th consecutive time since 2014, applying for the Summer Academy felt like something "not not to do!" I applied and a few weeks later got the notification that I am in. Can't say how excited I was, especially as my "economics days" were 25 years ago, and focus of work and interest had changed since quite a lot.<br />
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What really had drawn my interest was the fact that for the last ten years, since returning to Dresden right in the middle of the bursting Financial Crisis in late 2008, and seeing that "economics 101" neither had produced the "green meadows" of Eastern Germany nor enabled entrepreneurs and visionaries to pursue their dreams for the betterment of society in the region (the complete journey of mine in this context you find <a href="https://medium.com/@ralflippold/when-dynamic-complexity-drives-a-dream-a32c70409bf6" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">here</span></a>).<br />
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Reading into the agenda of the Summer Academy and the previous ones, fond memories of myself sitting in front of Reuters monitors in the trading room of the bank where I did my apprenticeship between 1986-88 and seeing my held stock plunge into a "pit black hole" when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Black Monday</span></a> happened on October 19, 1987. Not much explanation took place after that time (pretty much like what happened after the Financial Crisis in 2008). As a direct consequence I found myself studying economics afterwards, yet not getting satisfied by the classical curriculum at the university which (back then as still these days) focuses on trying to analyse the developments of the past, missing out the deeper exploration of the "Why?" consequently. Since these days in the late 80's, also experiencing a complete economy (the former GDR) in a massive transition over the last three decades, and having lived in Saxony for half of that time, I am trying to understand and explore other ways of the "natural" growth paradigm which has many "unintended side-effects" that we can see everywhere.<br />
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So the question came up, "Which workshop to take?" amongst almost a dozen ones ranging from Marxist Economics via Feminist Economics to Complexity Economics. To get a glimpse of the variety of economic theory see here the <a href="https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/orientation/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">overview</span></a> at Exploring Economics. It turned out to be "Entrepreneurship and Diverse Economics", making the most sense. Arriving in Neudietendorf and meeting the workshop class on Saturday morning I could not be more thrilled to meet students from various fields (law and medicine including), consultants, policymakers coming from countries such as Colombia, Uganda, Germany, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. The picture you see is the outdoor area which was going to be filled with people discussing the workshops, exchanging thoughts, playing chess or just having a great lunch or dinner outside over the next couple of days.<br />
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The core question that followed our workshop over the week was the following, "Does it always need growth or are there other paths of economic progress and well-being of society?"<br />
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However, what we see and quite naturally come about in conversation with colleagues and friends it is all about growth (without any mentioned boundaries). "Bigger is Better" seems to be the thing that drives society and the economy, all around the world - yet there are other approaches for companies.<br />
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After we had digged deeper in the theory and different concepts, often overlapping in some essential aspects such as giving back value to the society/community and strongly valueing sustainable processes, we learned about some examples of such companies. More of that including companies/projects to be found in this <a href="https://thenextsystem.org/learn/collections/new-systems-possibilities-and-proposals" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">overview</span></a> from which we drew much of the basis of our conversations in class.<br />
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However, after returning from Neudietendorf and my mind buzzing with the inputs it gained over the week, memories of the past came back once opening the cupboard holding our tea and coffee: a box of liquorice manufactured by <a href="https://www.amarelli.it/en/" target="_blank">Amarelli</a>. While on holiday in Italy we happened to visit their company, where we learned about the peculiar making of liquorice (Lakritz). The most stunning thing was that this company is in family hand since its founding in 1731. Even more so it is a member of a global community of family-owned businesses that had been founded more than 200 years, called <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://www.henokiens.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">The Hénokiens</span></a>.</span> What is so amazing about those companies (the oldest, a spa in Japan in family hands for 46(!) generations since the 8th century) is that all have grown to a certain size, ranging from a few hundred to several thousand employees.<br />
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Staying for generations in family ownership says one thing for sure, "Growth in numbers is not everything!"<br />
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Why not take some of the Hénokien wisdom into account when starting your company or leading an existing one?<br />
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For further research and learning around degrowth check out the following links:<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.degrowth.info/en/dim/degrowth-in-movements/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Degrowth in Movement</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://thenextsystem.org/learn/collections/new-systems-possibilities-and-proposals" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">New Systems - Possibilities and Proposals</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.clubofrome.org/2017/05/17/summeracademy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Club of Rome Summer Academy 2017</span></a></li>
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com199192 Neudietendorf, Deutschland50.9117452 10.91042229999993750.8716977 10.829741299999936 50.9517927 10.991103299999937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-19742847405396647432019-04-08T08:04:00.000+02:002019-04-08T10:55:37.202+02:005G Pulling the Pack Ahead, Especially on the Edge <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final talk at #IEEETTM 2012 in Dresden;<br />
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It was a bright sunny day in late spring of the year 2012. Several hundred tech experts, researchers and media folks began to flock the City of Dresden. One could immediately sense the international flair near the Hilton Hotel in downtown right in the middle of the Altstadt, yet the miracle was over soon enough. The city itself often is described as a "cultural pearl" with a historic legacy that can be still today be visited. That it could be a modern day technology hot spot probably is not that well-known (at least outside the tech community). The TU Dresden was just about to hand its application to Excellence Initiative which would make it later the one university in the Eastern part of Germany holding the title of an "Excellence University".<br />
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This was seven years ago. If you'd be interested in what it was like you can read my personal experiences from that event <b>here</b>. From here the story evolves in ways that might not be so obvious, even for the curious outside observer, even at a local basis.<br />
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With the right mindset, the right people, and the right amount of capital, anything is possible - so Peter H. Diamandis, founder of <a href="http://xprize.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">XPRIZE</span></a>, <a href="http://singularityu.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Singularity University</span></a> and co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Planetary Resources</span></a><br />
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One thing that was mentioned by one of the co-organizers, Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, at his planetary talk was the "tactile internet", literally the real-time interaction via data communication. Back then and mostly still today is the latency time of signal travelling through fibre cables or via air. Listen to his visionary talk at the <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXEPzQgpok" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">2013 Johannesberg Summit</span></a>. </span>What was still missing was a technology that enables signals to move fast enough to almost create real-time situations (e.g. relevant for remote-control surgery or autonomous driving) even at short distances and not like space-related distances as SpaceX and PlanetaryResources had launched their operations earlier that year.<br />
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In 2014, just a year later, Dresden-based technology blogger Heiko Weckbrodt (aka <a class="" href="https://oiger.de/" target="_blank"><span class="" style="color: #999999;">Oiger</span></a>) captured a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1arZtLXcU8" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">live presentation</span></a> on what was going to become the next generation in mobile communication. And roughly around the same at the <a href="http://bizdesigndd.blogspot.com/search/label/%23DATE14" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Date 2014</span></a> the "Tactile Internet" found its way again into the conversation in Dresden, this time in connection with the <a href="https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/news" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">cfaed</span></a> (Center for Advanced Electronics Dresden - one of the funded excellence projects at the TU Dresden researching in the "electronics of tomorrow").<br />
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Two years later, the focus of the Hannover Messe 2016 was "Industrie 4.0" (a term coined in 2012 in order to establish a brand around the German efforts towards what is commonly known as "The 4th Industrial Revolutions". It was about to pull in local companies and research institutes in that area to the giant fairground (formerly base of the EXPO2000) in Hannover. Additionally, in early spring the MP of the Free State of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich, had initiated a local conference in Dresden on "<a href="https://www.ministerpraesident.sachsen.de/konferenz-industrie-4-0-in-dresden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Industry 4.0</span></a>" (in German). Several hundred stakeholders flocked to the International Congress Center Dresden and a social media there can be still the spirit of that day be captured via the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SachsenIndustrie40&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#SachsenIndustrie40</span></a>. Industry 4.0 and real-time interaction with as little latency between connected machines certainly was in need for technology beyond cable or WiFi connectivity. Examples of the difference could be seen in Berlin during the 1st <a href="https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%23SUGermanySummit%20since%3A2016-04-01%20until%3A2016-06-01&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">SUGermanySummit</span></a> in May which was also attended by Saxons, namely the boundary spanning mind behind <a href="http://twitter.com/HTxA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">HTxA - HighTech x Agency</span></a>. An overview of what happened during these two days in Berlin, seen from a Saxon perspective, has been captured <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sugermanysummit%20%40HTxAlive&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">here</span></a>.<br />
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Even though the events over the years since 2012 look like single dots in history, a closer look certainly reveals an ongoing development and like patient upbringing of camellias (a flower originating in China and Japan which has a long, and lately rising, relevance in Saxony; famous examples are the "Pillnitzer Kamelie" at Pillnitz Castle or "Königsbrücker Kamelien" at Castle Königsbrück). Like a jigsaw puzzle, things only become visible only shortly before all the dots/pieces are connected and the "big picture" comes into view.<br />
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The latest highlight took place at the Hannover Messe 2019, just this week, where the City of Dresden held a press conference (live stream via <a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrGmYBmBADGy?q=dresdeninvest" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Periscope</span></a> from minute 59:00 onwards) together with several partners, e.g. <a href="https://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/en/about-us/future-mobility-incubator.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Future Mobility Incubator</span></a> of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH (Transparent Factory), <a href="https://www.airrays.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Airrays GmbH</span></a>, <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://5glab.de/" style="color: #999999;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">5G Lab Germany</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">, <a href="http://twitter.com/SmartSystemsHub" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Smart Systems Hub</span></a>, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TSystems_MMS/status/1114087801551753216" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">T-Systems MMS GmbH</span></a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/SQL_Projekt_AG" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">SQL Projekt AG</span></a> led by Robert Weichert, WeichertMehner (furthest on the left)</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span> <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">More details on the press conference and adjacent activities around technology see the <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://www.dresden-convention.com/en/why-dresden/dresden-smart-city-and-city-of-excellence/preview-hannover-messe-2019" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Dresden Convention</span></a> </span>website. The following conferences in Dresden touch on 5G-, telecommunication-technologies, as well as applications. Don't miss to take into account and in your travel plans.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://www.connect-ec.info/de/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;"><b>connect-ec</b></span></a>: </span>Germany's first telecommunications trade fair (German), May 2-5, 2019,<span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.de/e/connect-ec-2019-connect-messe-tickets-53388337956" style="color: #999999;" target="_blank">connect-ec</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><b>(</b>open for the public<b>)</b>, May 4-5, <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/connectec2019?vertical=default&src=hash&lang=de" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#connectec2019</span></a> </span>(Twitter)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.5gsummit.org/dresden/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;"><b>IEEE 4th 5G Summit Dresden</b></span></a>, October 1, 2019, <a href="https://twitter.com/5g_lab" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">@5g_lab</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/IEEEFutureNtwks/status/1110570924376494080" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #999999;">IEEE 5G World Forum Dresden</span></b></a>, September 30 - October 2, 2019 </li>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">.... as always, this could only be a small dip in the pool of amazing things ongoing in Dresden. Stay tuned for more, check on Twitter, and see recapture from personal experience and staying close to this years' Hannover Messe via our <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23hm19%20%40htxa&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Twitter</span></a> activities. </span><br />
<span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span> <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Ralf Lippold </span></div>
RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0Hannover Messe/Laatzen, 30880 Laatzen, Deutschland52.3174048 9.792675099999996726.7953703 -31.515918900000003 77.8394393 51.101269099999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-66902906705210027932017-08-29T15:36:00.001+02:002018-10-27T18:25:48.853+02:00Hellerau - Where Art and Tech Dance Together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday the final presentation day of <a class="gr-progress" href="https://www.futuresax.org/" target="_blank"><span class="" style="color: #999999;">futureSAX</span></a> - The Saxon Innovation Conference took place at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, an iconic building in the smallish suburb Hellerau on the edge of the globally known city of Dresden.<br />
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The area of what a little bit more than 100 years ago just heath land with scattered woods became an entrepreneurial and dance hotspot shortly after its founding as the first German "garden city" in 1909. The visionary entrepreneur, <a href="http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2154" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Karl Schmidt</span></a> (link to "German History in Books and Images" by @GHIWashington), envisioned not only a new furniture production site but also a suburb where working, education and living would jointly go together in the most natural form (literally embedded into the landscape of that strip of land).<br />
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The prosperous business owner and his outstandingly new ideas attracted famous architects of the time to this new "venture" and furthermore pulled in artists like Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, a Swiss musical pedagogue, who finally became the initiator of creating the Festspielhaus Dresden to perform rhythmical gymnastics.<br />
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So it made more than sense to choose this location to showcase some of the amazing innovations, like startups scaling up and projects in the making, as well as established regional companies that have gone to take exponential technologies to transform there sometimes centuries-old business models. As 100 years earlier not only local and Saxon players, but also attendees from Berlin and other locations found their way to Hellerau. BTW, the location is most conveniently reachable via eMobility as a tram line (No. 8) operated by the local public transport corporation <a href="http://twitter.om/DVBAG" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">DVB AG</span></a> has a stop ("Festspielhaus") nearby with a direct connection to downtown Dresden.<br />
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Saxony once again showed, that despite the edgy position within Germany, it has houses a high number of passionate and clever minds who are not just talking about shaping the future. They have dared to hand in their ideas, projects and startups putting their future on the "dance floor" where once <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gret_Palucca" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Gret Palucca</span></a> (and others) brought modern dance to the public.<br />
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To cut the story short, the prize ceremony has been banned on "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/smwa.sachsen/videos/1572352692851573/?fref=mentions" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">digital tape</span></a>" namely Facebook Live by technology passionate members of the SMWA_SN (Saxon State Ministry for Labour, Economics, and Infrastructure). Prior to the prize ceremony, a group of young dancers of the <a href="http://tanzraum-dresden.de/#home" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Tanzraum Dresden</span></a> performed a wonderful that in some way resembled the struggles entre-/intra-/extrapreneurs face while working on their innovative ideas to see the bright light of success. It may take quite some time, not days, not a week, rather years or even decades.<br />
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Looking forward to the next edition of futureSAX in 2018 and the path there, rich of shaped serendipity encounters (here a short <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6bXOETp_M" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">clip</span></a> with John Hagel, co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge on shaped serendipity) along the way.<br />
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Wrapping up on a day full of surprise encounters, meeting new and old friends one sentence captures what innovation is literally all about:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Innovation is like performing arts, you passionately have to stay with it through training, repetition until the idea becomes a reality. </span></div>
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In short, the review on yesterday's experience will be captured what was coined <a href="https://twitter.com/ralflippold/status/768769709315592192" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#PresencingStatus</span></a> back in the "early days" of <a href="http://twitter.om/occDD" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">occDD</span></a> (Open Coffee Club Dresden, an idea we brought back from Boston back in 2009):<br />
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<li><b>Good</b> - perfect location; dense, somewhat crowded place (enabling serendipity encounters); meeting friends from Berlin who are also in the #ExponentialTechnologies space; most inspiring conversations</li>
<li><b>Tricky</b> - 5 GHz WiFi networks may lead to connection problems (h/t to Hellerau's guest network that worked flawlessly over the whole time); noisy crowd during the pitches </li>
<li><b>Learned</b> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOw0IDrKvuw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Humble Inquiry</span></a> (a concept <a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=41040" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Edgar H. Schein</span></a>, Prof. Emer. of MIT Sloan School of Management with family roots also from Bad Schandau, Saxony as he writes in his autobiography "<a href="http://www.scheinocli.org/publications/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Becoming American</span></a>"; "Are you at futureSAX in Hellerau today?") really led to a most surprising and rich conversation with someone who had not been aware of futureSAX </li>
<li><b>Action</b> - Doing what we always do, weaving the various threads of information, events, and persons together into a bigger picture of Saxony that is truly more than what can often be read in the media outside Saxony </li>
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-50257961138962596322017-08-03T22:39:00.000+02:002017-08-03T22:47:46.678+02:00Grasping Beyond the Stars and Landing in Saxony <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Space technology is not just since live streams of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrP3jHuLQ9o" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">relanding</span></a> (CRS-11 Landing aerial view) of the Falcon 9 rocket, and several resupply missions to the ISS (International Space Station) made possible by the team around serial entrepreneur <a href="http://twitter.com/ElonMusk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Elon Musk</span></a> in the news. <a href="http://www.planetaryresources.com/#home-intro" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Planetary Resources</span></a>, a bold start-up with the mission to mine Earth-near asteroids, co-founded by Peter H. Diamandis (he is also the co-founder of Singularity University, a visionary think tank with the mission to teach and empower leaders about the power of converging exponential technologies through various in-person and digital formats, whose chancellor <a href="https://vimeo.com/13003024" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> gave an outstanding keynote at the 4th Dresden Future Forum in 2010).<br />
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At first sight one would not expect Saxony, or more specifically Dresden, to play a significant role in this context. And yet, it does. More subtle through the person Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rektor of the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), who not only led the university to its current heights being one of 11 top universities in Germany with the "excellence status" in 2012. This even pulled in the interest of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/world/europe/14iht-educside14.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">New York Times</span></a> which put a story up on this achievement in January 13, 2013<br />
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Dresden, once the home of the East German passenger plane industry in the late 50s and beginnings of the 60s, has transformed this legacy into being a viable part of the Airbus-family with the <a href="https://www.elbeflugzeugwerke.com/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Elbe Flugzeugwerke EFW</span></a> that is specializing transforming passenger aircrafts into freight liners. Even though situated on the edge of Germany, and even on the edge of the City of Dresden, there are many "hidden champions" in the aerospace industry (see the post "<a href="https://bizdesigndd.blogspot.de/2017/05/engineered-serendipity-shaping-future.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Engineered Serendipity Shaping the Future</span></a>") and which can be found in the Cluster <a href="http://www.lrt-sachsen-thueringen.de/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">LRT Sachsen/Thüringen</span></a>.<br />
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On top of this, the TU Dresden is home of the <a href="https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ilr/das-institut/professuren?set_language=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik</span></a>, and one of the largest science communities in the field of Aeronautics in Germany, mainly at the former GDR Aerospace campus in Dresden-Johannstadt with international ties to ESA, NASA, and the <a href="http://www.isunet.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">International Space University</span></a> (another startup by Peter H. Diamandis going back to late 80s when he and two buddies at the MIT founded it, now it has its permanent headquarters near Strasbourg, France).<br />
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Looking back five years in time when <a href="http://sites.ieee.org/ttm/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">IEEE TTM</span></a> (IEEE Time Technology Machine) took place right in the historic center of Dresden, SpaceX had just completed its first successful re-supply mission to the ISS (see "<a href="https://bizdesigndd.blogspot.de/2012/05/bridging-across-boundaries-technologies.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Boundaries Across Boundaries, Technologies, and Cultures</span></a>") it makes perfect sense for another bold step. And it was there to come, not too unexpected as the curious observers of the developments would certainly confirm.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10002/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">DLR</span></a> (German Aerospace Center) the national aeronautics and space research center the Federal Republic of Germany decided during its Senate Meeting end of June the establishment of <a href="http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-23037/#/gallery/27334" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">seven DLR institutes</span></a> across Germany. One of which is based in Dresden, at the TU Dresden, and it will focus on the "<a href="http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-23545/#/gallery/27765" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Research into the digitalisation of aviation</span></a>"<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DLR?src=hash">#DLR</a> opens new Institute of Software Methods for Product Virtualisation in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dresden?src=hash">#Dresden</a> <a href="https://t.co/csd3Iqspxq">https://t.co/csd3Iqspxq</a> <a href="https://t.co/nwzldcnUqJ">pic.twitter.com/nwzldcnUqJ</a></div>
— DLR - English (@DLR_en) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLR_en/status/893146463299141632">3. August 2017</a></blockquote>
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making not only use of the excellent software industry base, the scientific research community, but also of the <a href="https://twitter.com/semiconeuropa/status/600728728759578626"><span style="color: #999999;">high-performance computing capabilities</span></a> that the TU Dresden provides (and which other potential users are connected to such as the <a href="http://twitter.om/MPICBG" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">MPI-CBG</span></a> which opened the <a href="http://www.csbdresden.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Center for Systems Biology Dresden</span></a> lately).<br />
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Today the inaugiration of the Institute of Software Methods for Product Virtualisation in Dresden has taken place and more about the event and first impressions, interviews, and statements are available through <a href="http://twitter.om/DLR_en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">DLR's Twitter</span></a> account through which the exciting news were announced on July 26, 2017,<br />
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Am 3.8. eröffnen wir das DLR-Institut für Softwaremethoden zur Produkt-Virtualisierung in Dresden.Wir twittern währenddessen via <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DLRdresden?src=hash">#DLRdresden</a></div>
— DLR_de (@DLR_de) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLR_de/status/890175141275082753">26. Juli 2017</a></blockquote>
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and the specific hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23DLRdresden&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#DLRdresden</span></a> which has been in use since.<br />
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We congratulate all people, institutions, and companies who have made this amazing step possible, and with the #DLRdresden and its team most successful scaling into a prosperous and exciting future.<br />
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-38820470797316511812017-05-10T21:43:00.001+02:002019-06-05T23:17:15.777+02:00Engineered Serendipity Shaping the Future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is been a while, on March 2, 2017, the Economic Development Corporation Saxony (Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH) invited the press to their yearly press talk on the achievements of the past year and a lookout for the future.<br />
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Saxon State Minister for Economics, Labor and Transportation, Martin Dulig, <a href="http://twitter.com/SMWA_SN" target="_blank">SMWA</a>, and Head of <a href="https://business-saxony.com/en/service/about-us" target="_blank">Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH</a>, Peter Nothnagel, welcomed the media and gave a broad overview of the activities and successes within the past year 2016. Despite the fact that the projects that the WFS facilitated a similar number of investments over the course of the year 2016 compared with 2015, the average invest volume was about half compared with that of the preceding year. Peter Nothnagel, "Auch kleine Projekte werden zu großen." (English: "Also small projects become large ones"). What at first sight might look as a not so positive outlook into the future might also be an early sign of focus shift from traditional industries towards advancing technologies. Such include space-related and exponential technologies such as additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing or AM) and other business fields that are massively impacted by the rising digitalization (e.g. e-Mobility, autonomous driving, life sciences, IIoT) and economic activities around emerging digital business models.<br />
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In general, it once more became clear that the WFS is a major "anchor point" between Saxony, its scientific communities, the established and emerging SMEs (though mostly small in size, nevertheless big at highest quality levels) in the region, and the international business community. The event took place at the headquarters of <a href="http://www.htsdd.de/index_en.html" target="_blank">Hoch Technologie Systeme GmbH</a> (HTS GmbH), a small yet unique supplier and service provider specifically for the aerospace, space and rail industry with 33 employees and currently led by its founder Dr. Wolfgang Göhler who had founded the company in 1996. One of the reasons not only the wide array of well-trained engineers streaming out of Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) but also the unique density of companies and a <a href="https://business-saxony.com/en/industry-sectors/further-sectors/aerospace-technology" target="_blank">cluster in the field of aerospace</a> in the region.<br />
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In 2016, HTS GmbH had its 20th anniversary of operations, RUAG Space, the space division of the Swiss <a href="https://www.ruag.com/" target="_blank">RUAG Group</a>, had announced the take-over of HTS in order to build on their long-lasting business collaboration between the two companies which started in 2002 and has been successfully fulfilled projects around several space missions by <a href="http://esa.org/" target="_blank">ESA</a> and players in the field. Quite surprisingly RUAG Space is involved in the project <a href="http://oneweb.world/#home" target="_blank">OneWeb</a>. This ambitious project is supported also by serial entrepreneur and space enthusiast Sir Richard Branson and is aiming to position several hundred satellites around the Earth to provide internet connection to all regions of the world, especially remote ones as stated by Invest Switzerland on <a href="https://twitter.com/investch/status/804599770786435072">Twitter</a> in late 2016.<br />
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As Dr. Axel Roenneke, VP Marketing & Sales of RUAG Space, stated at the press conference things are like to change dramatically in the space industry as it gets more industrialized.<br />
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Presently most of the equipment for space missions is small in number and unique, often made by craftsmanship. Whereas in the past building of a satellite took about nine months, processes, also supported by emerging additive manufacturing technologies in metal as well as in ceramics, now constructing three satellites per day (!) is one of the bold goals. Industrializing production processes, and keeping the highest standards is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time, bringing the relevance of lean (LAI, <a href="http://ssrc.mit.edu/programs/lean-advancement-initiative-lai" target="_blank">Lean Aerospace Initiative</a> (1993-2012) by MIT), Industry 4.0 and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) into perspective. In this context, it is also worth to mention the conference on Industry 4.0 in Dresden, called "Industrie 4.0 - Sachsen stellt sich auf" (<a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23sachsenindustrie40&src=typd" target="_blank">#SachsenIndustrie40</a>).<br />
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During the event and afterwards it came up several times in personal conversations that the region, and especially Dresden with its legacy in material sciences, additive manufacturing expertise (the Fraunhofer Campus in Dresden is about to become a major research and applied research hub in the field)), the aerospace legacy and other technology fields may play a larger role than is presently visible in the space industry that is currently becoming more industrialized and scaling up. In this context, as scaling production processes need enlarged quality management efforts, Jakob Kania, founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.supportq.de/" target="_blank">Support Q GmbH</a>, was introduced. Support Q GmbH, based in the most eastern part of Saxony focuses on services enabling suppliers to deliver products, especially to the automotive industry to high-level quality standards. Jakob Kania had attended earlier last year a market research tour by WFS to Mexico where during one of the meetings during the tour a conversation with the head of the Mexican Automotive Supplier Association took place. This rather "unexpected" conversation pulled up a new potential market chance in Mexico where the automotive industry is currently scaling production, and with it as well as driven by rising production in the U.S. OEM plants, suppliers are coping with rising quality challenges with ramping production.<br />
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The key learnings from this press talk that might be useful for other industry leaders as well:<br />
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<li>take a long breath when working on something visionary (e.g. space technology)</li>
<li>focus on core competencies and specific capabilities where you are a master in the field</li>
<li>take opportunities (even when the outcome cannot be clearly defined)</li>
<li>never underestimate the value of an organization or region due to its size and position </li>
<li>observe closely how industry reality shifts swiftly with exponential technology advancement</li>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Update per 2017-10-25</span><br />
- <a href="https://idw-online.de/de/news681754"><span style="color: #999999;">Bauteile für Luft- und Raumfahrt aus dem 3D-Drucker</span></a>, idw<br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Update per 2017-06-28 </span><br />
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- <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40422011"><span style="color: #999999;">Satellite mega-constellation production begins</span></a> via BBC </div>
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- <a href="http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/de/2017/06/one-web-satellites-serial-production-line-inauguration.html"><span style="color: #999999;">OneWeb Satellites eröffnet Serienfertigungslinie</span></a> via Airbus Press</div>
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-37879691250875223632016-09-22T14:34:00.002+02:002016-09-29T11:59:52.199+02:00U.Lab - a self-learning orientated vehicle to shape the future together<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ulab&src=typd"><span style="color: #999999;">#ULab</span></a> has begun, and the social field is in the process of being cultivated. Now already by two u.lab hubs in Saxony: Leipzig & Dresden. Activities within Saxony check <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ulabsaxony&src=typd"><span style="color: #999999;">#ulabsaxony</span></a><br />
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Interested to learn about projects, and get to know change makers, and passionate people in Saxony, and from around the globe?<br />
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Join in the current MOOC "<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/u-lab-leading-emerging-future-mitx-15-671-1x"><span style="color: #999999;">u.lab - Leading From the Emerging Future</span></a>"</div>
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To have a quick overview, whether this could be something for you (personally), the organization you are part of or the community you are living in, here are some <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/theorie-u-theory-u-ulab-in-dresden/material/158337897940327"><span style="color: #999999;">links</span></a> (including some in German) or have a look at the <a href="http://presencing.com/"><span style="color: #999999;">Presencing Institute</span></a><br />
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-72431947278917972782016-04-18T21:55:00.001+02:002016-05-04T22:23:39.543+02:00The Singularity and Exponential Change - April 20-21, 2016 Where is More to Learn In "<a href="http://singularity.com/"><span style="color: #999999;">The Singularity Is Near</span></a>" futurist and now Google's Chief Engineer Ray Kurzweil predicts a not so distant time in the future when computers have more computing power than humans, and will actually bring it on the road.<br />
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The metaphor "<a href="http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/86-the-universe/black-holes-and-quasars/general-questions/441-what-is-a-singularity-beginner"><span style="color: #999999;">The Singularity</span></a>" is taken from physics where it is used to describe the unpredictable chaos that is following the development of a "black hole".<br />
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What seems to most of us as a purely Sci-Fi dreamlike utopia or even dystopia can be felt already some forms that things are changing around us so fast that we as individuals and especially organizations often haven't learnt extensively how to cope with it.<br />
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Whole industries and their key players are threatened by digital competitors like the film industry with Kodak once being the "poster child". Despite the fact that an engineer at Kodak developed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#Shift_to_digital"><span style="color: #999999;">first digital camera</span></a>, which of course back in the day showed the concept, and the starting point of an exponential process that started at such a low level that the company denied any substantial progress on its development only to see itself filing bankruptcy for Chapter 11 in early 2012 (in 2013 Kodak rose again, though with a much smaller workforce, as a <a href="http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Kodak_Emerges_as_Technology_Company_Focused_on_Imaging_for_Business.htm"><span style="color: #999999;">technology company</span></a>).<br />
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Exponential technologies enable new-comers in the traditional business and industry fields to take advantage of digital technologies outpacing the business models of the traditional players, as Instagram, Pinterest and others did with Kodak.<br />
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Should your industry, and organization fear the same fate? Why, if you are open to see what is happening now already and where the exponential trajectory may lead impacting your own business models.<br />
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What till now was possible to learn at on a super-fast learning trip to Silicon Valley's unique think and do tank <a href="http://singularityu.org/"><span style="color: #999999;">Singularity University</span></a> either on a 10-week summer course or various shorter workshop offers at executive level now is coming to Germany with <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23sugermanysummit">#SUGermanySummit</a></span> (hashtag) in Berlin from April 20-21, 2016.<br />
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Most often we are stuck in our disciplinary boundaries. As a cartographer might not reach into <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23industrie40&src=typd"><span style="color: #999999;">#Industrie40</span></a> space and yet layout digitization might be a huge improvement factor in future production scenarios. So why not cross-learn what exiting technologies are around that might have positive impacts on our industry and work field. <a href="https://medium.com/aspen-ideas/engineering-serendipity-941e601a9b65#.g00uz77uf"><span style="color: #999999;">Engineered serendipity</span></a> as described in article stemming from the Aspen Ideas Festivals 2014 might be exactly what participants (especially newcomers to the Singularity University community, as it is their first official appearance in Germany organized by SU Ambassador for Germany Stephan Balzer) will get.<br />
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Be open. Get overwhelmed. Take the relevant knowledge out of the conversation.<br />
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Even if you can't be in Berlin in person connecting via digital technology, namely in the communication such as Twitter, Facebook or else and check out the speaker line-up, and program on the <a href="http://www.singularityugermanysummit.org/#home"><span style="color: #999999;">SingularityUniversityGermanySummit</span></a> website.<br />
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<br />RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-66026294068243355312016-02-20T23:33:00.002+01:002019-05-12T14:21:50.295+02:00Vibrant University Engagement - Exponential Knowledge Flows <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An empathic, energetic, open minded, networked, student-life interested staff member needs a way to effectively engage relevant university stakeholders on one shared goal (vision) because otherwise energies of engaged staff members are wasted and engagement goes to zero.</strong></div>
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<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">weekly online meeting (30min) of heads of staff/ departments about ongoing things (minutes shared publicly within the university)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">public online forum (within university net)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">free WiFi access in all campus premises (including cafeteria) for students, staff, and alumni</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">gamification of interdepartmental communication</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Facebook page with interactive elements (providing credit points to students who involve, and staff, professors) </li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Systems Thinking/ System Dynamics as a new curriculum (touching all other departments</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">real-world (within the university) use cases on improvements</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a startup accelerator within the university (without public funding, in order to enable students to learn to run a business earn money for the rent, and learn for future work)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">publish all (!) thesis </li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">only allow thesis with companies that are fully published to the public (so knowledge is spreading across disciplines, and time)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OLED-flat screen at the university cafeteria</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WikiWall at very places within the university campus where different disciplines meet</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">publishing the regulations of certain university-related funding projects</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">entrepreneur boot camps as part of the general curriculum for all departments (including distance learning teams)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">providing funding for conference attendees at other universities around the globe to learn what their approaches are</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">create ambassador teams of alumni (physical)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">create ambassador teams of alumni (virtual, e.g. just on Twitter/ Facebook)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">making it for new professorships a must to have a Twitter account</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">alumni days</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">summer school</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">entrepreneurial incubator (funded)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">eliminate paperwork across the staff</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">deliver laptops/ mobile devices to all staff (with usage tracking)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">person tracking so one can find relevant discussion partners across campus (either professors, students)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">creating an alumni network with added value (what?) for them</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">allow alumni to use university web services/ free of charge WiFi around campus</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mentor-mentee groups (with alumni)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">organize tours to companies that are run by alumni</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">create multidisciplinary teams to solve city-based challenges (becoming part of the curriculum)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">establish an Ultimate Frisbee league (leadership, tracking of body movements, a mobile computing application, interdisciplinary, competition)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">encourage staircase using (instead of the elevator) by providing incentives (to be used via swipecards) for staff, and students</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Install seating opportunities in prominent areas of the campus where a large, diverse mass of people flow by</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">engage special interest groups for improvement of processes e.g.. Lean Thinking, System Dynamics</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">engage politicians to do empathy walks for a day through the campus, telling in realtime what is good/ tricky / learned / action (#PresencingStatus)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Doing a #PresencingStatus (What is good? What is tricky? What have I learned? Next minimal viable action?) as a standard process for incoming students (after four weeks, bachelor students in their 2nd year, master students in their 1st year, professors, staff members) and publish those findings</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">engage as a university (with the non-obvious challenges around the transition from university to work) during the Global Entrepreneurship Week, and Lean Startup Workshops in Dresden, that I plan to organize)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">open-door policy</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">student counselling 15 min with #PresencingStatus - on a PostIt® for all, see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralflippold/sets/72157623063031728/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralflippold/sets/72157623063031728/</a></li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">establishing standard processes to bring university news across floors, departments, and stakeholders (e.g. web-based standardized documents)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bringing the needs, and challenges of the different departments within the university to the public (#PresencingStatus)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lowered workload</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">single-entry-point where news from all faculties streams in in real-time</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">drawing together public websites of faculties where news come up</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">make sure that once published work is reachable even when servers, URL is changed in the future</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">automatic streaming of information about departments, university, student work, events</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">include the relevance of serendipity into the curriculum, and on the website of the university (with given examples where it turned to amazing results)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bringing together technical departments with non-technical departments on student projects</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GoogleHangouts with alumni interviews (standard questions, #PresencingStatus; once a week, public, inviting up to 8 students</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Workshops on specific topics led by alumni at the university (live streamed) to give students the work experience </li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lowering the workload of staff members (what is really necessary? what is helping the student? what is going wrong over and over again (systemic failure)?</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Interactive both like @SenseableCity's bus stop in the university entrance hall where bypassers can leave a message</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RSS feed connecting hub bringing news of different departments up in real-time </li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">microblogging/chat program for all staff members (indicating online status, so questions/proposals/meetings can be done online/offline at no constraint</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">glass doors at offices</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3D-model of the university campus with the appropriate origin of information from RSS-info (point 52.) so deeper inquiry can be done directly</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">smartphone app for university microblogging, and location-based - with gamification incentive (such as most direct contact with professors, response-time evaluation)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">online, visualization of room occupancy in the buildings around campus (who, what, when) - so interesting thesis presentations or such can be visited</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">creating an ideation environment (d.school-like) within easy reach within campus main building, inviting also outsiders (for fresh ideas)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">University speed-dating evenings on challenging questions that students and stuff bring up over and over again</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PlasticLogic (electronic paper) in the main hall visualizing all courses and their rooms currently so one gets an overview</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WikiWall-net within the campus (8x8 matrix for each department that is fed by automatic RSS-feeds + individual input), with daily capturing</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MIT Sloan CONDOR solution to track the information flow across the floors, and departments (without tracking exact names), so information constraints or overload can be examined</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a semantic-web solution to capture information flow </li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">put the formal curriculum out of work and create an entrepreneurial university - learning by doing only (like Team Academy, including the given faculties as the grounding)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">open office building like BMW Plant Leipzig, <a href="http://leanthinkers.blogspot.de/2011/08/bmw-werk-leipzig-semperoper-starbucks.html">http://leanthinkers.blogspot.de/2011/08/bmw-werk-leipzig-semperoper-starbucks.html</a></li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bilingual website to attract foreign students to include other cultures</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sponsoring of books to the library (with mention of the giver in the book and electronic catalogue including how to be reached via social web)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yearbook of all students (current) and electronic (printed on-demand basis) supplement with all alumni (with current base, work position)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Upon entering university short one-page pitch (person, background, interests, hobbies, social media presence, past work, picture, etc.)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Staff yearbook (and one-pager or three tags # on each person)</li>
<li style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">University BarCamp (during the week; free for all - practical design thinking workshops with practical relevance - get all stakeholders into dialogue</li>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Twitter account for each department just like MIT Cambridge (e.g. </span><span class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://smbrown.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/mit-on-twitter/" style="color: #007fcc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://smbrown.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/mit-on-twitter</a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Professors on Twitter (have a single entry point to find their accounts; e.g. </span><span class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://connect.mit.edu/blog/12-mit-professors-who-use-twitter/" style="color: #007fcc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://connect.mit.edu/blog/12-mit-professors-who-use-twitter/</a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Short cafeteria-based 5-10 min workshops about what to write on Twitter or share in general (e.g. </span><span class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://connect.mit.edu/blog/tweeters-block/)" style="color: #007fcc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://connect.mit.edu/blog/tweeters-block/</a> )</span></div>
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Creating a "creative communication office" (e.g. Orbiting the Giant Hairball, The Creative Paradox), one person as knowledge flow catalysator</div>
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Chartering a train (for roughly 700 persons), and run a week-long boot camp train tour (having flip charts, WiFi, and other facilities onboard)</div>
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sponsor a university world tour to learn who other universities tackle the challenge of communicating across campus</div>
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Initiate "viral campaigns" about news about the university that has to be spread into the public, and across campus</div>
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run ideation workshops (public to anybody) with oversized electronic boards for visualization</div>
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Surface table and touch-sensitive whiteboards in the hallway </div>
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visualize the flow of moving information across different departments (especially on where waiting time appears) - these are the points where intervention and inquiry into root causes are most effective</div>
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no data closure on information flow</div>
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put a system dynamics department into place to act as internal flow improvement accelerator</div>
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writing a book by alumni "What was really really good, and should be replicated from the old days"?</div>
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inviting alumni and professor emeritus, as well as the staff who have left the university 20 years ago - engage in dialogue to learn from them</div>
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on entering the building send via your smartphone on what was hindering good information flow yesterday</div>
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Café outside at the entrance where all meet</div>
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encourage staff and students to take tram and bus (gamification, such as meeting at least two people of the university to talk with on the bus and so get into a conversation)</div>
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create an open day in departments (one by one) and enable that others learn about your work and challenges</div>
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Job rotation (and only for a few days) so to see what the others do </div>
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internships for university students (of all faculties) by the university at fields that students feel could be improved</div>
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cross-faculty projects that have the intention to generate revenue in a lean startup approach</div>
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mentor fireplace chats (live covered by students on Twitter)</div>
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students mentor staff on new media usage in a business context</div>
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open office with laptop use, and only electronic documents (paper scanned directly)</div>
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smartphone app where small incremental improvements individuals have achieved within university information & knowledge flow (e.g. establishing an alumni group or a Twitter account)</div>
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Innovation Nights where students pitch 5 min (5 pages) improvement ideas on things that bother them, sponsored catering/ drinking</div>
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-66105483383830107572015-12-02T23:15:00.001+01:002019-08-24T21:11:15.811+02:00Disruption - Pairing Social Innovation and Technology for Good<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Three events that don't see connected too much, and yet they perhaps are showing one of the great "opportunity windows" of our time.<br />
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<b>(1)</b> Quite recently "<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/transforming-business-society-self-u-lab-mitx-15-671x" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">U.Lab - Transforming Business, Society, and Self</span></a>" a MOOC with about 40k registered participants led by M.I.T. Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer has come to an end.<br />
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<b>(2) </b>At the same time <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_announces_singularity_university" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Singularity University</span></a> (an institution founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil and based on the impact of exponential technologies on bold challenges that humanity faces these times) is getting unexpected <a href="https://www.singularityweblog.com/socrates-deconstructs-singularity-university/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">awareness</span></a>.<br />
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<b>(3)</b> In Paris, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">COP21</span></a>), the heads of state of 195 (!) countries are meeting to discuss, debate and come to a joint agreement on how to tackle what we get aware on a global scale across all possible boundaries: climate change.<br />
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When during a book stand stroll I stumbled across a book with a peculiar name "Presence" I wasn't really aware until the Financial Crisis hit Germany about a year later. Disruptive economic impact could be almost felt and seen overnight, Qimonda a chip manufacturer closed in Dresden in mid-2009, a washing powder production plant in <a href="http://genthin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Genthin</span></a> was about to be shut down in late 2008.<br />
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The set of questions that came up in 2008 to my mind was the following,<br />
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"<b>Isn't that a waste of human capital in the purest sense? Shutting down a plant. Resettling all the high-paid experts to other regions. Getting social work relations to regrow. ... can this be transformed in a positive way by bringing digital technology to create economic, and social value alike?</b>"</div>
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Around that time in the summer of 2008, the news about a newly set up institution, Singularity University, in Silicon Valley and a little later the name <a href="https://vimeo.com/13003024" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> reached the city of Dresden <b>(2)</b>. The idea to pair social innovation and technology emerged into a working prototype in the city of Dresden over some months. Dozens of interested people joined and were eager to find solutions to the severe economic conditions (the Financial Crisis of 2008 had just hit the world). An old ballroom was quickly found, things began moving in even more exponential manner, and digital communication combined with "Theory U" (the follow-up book and approach for large-scale social change) was meant to be the "magic sauce" to make the "impossible reality".<br />
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The vision of pairing technology and social innovation (<a href="https://vimeo.com/25146600" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Theory U</span></a>) took hold and emerged over the years into several smaller prototypes, and experiments (to be found on this post on another <a href="https://medium.com/@ralflippold/when-dynamic-complexity-drives-a-dream-a32c70409bf6" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">blog</span></a>).<br />
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The concept that emerged in summer 2014, largely after a professor in nano-technology had given a short interview on the essence of applied research and the current lack of academics, business and society to make positive wide-spread use through new products, and services made it into the Global Plan 2014 of the <a href="http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300701/planId/1309704" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">MIT Climate CoLab</span></a>. It stayed there as a handed in proposal waiting to be grown at the appropriate opportunity.<br />
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<b>(3)</b> Lastly a few days ago on Monday, November 30, 2015 the 21st Conference of Parties (<a href="http://www.cop21paris.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">COP21</span></a>) started and the world is looking what the leaders of the world we come up with to tackle climate change, or in other words "<a href="http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">to aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C</span></a>"<br />
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Three disconnected seeming events that when you get yourself on your "mental helicopter" and rise some hundred meters above ground level, or even well into Space ("Overview Effect") there is a glimpse to do together as a global society what Kelvy Bird has <a href="http://www.kelvybird.com/decoding/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">captured</span></a> during an event last year in the little town of Nauen close to Berlin.<br />
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We are all connected on this small planet called Earth and eco-awareness at large through technology is possible, if we choose together to do so!<br />
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Why not? What is holding us individually and collectively (across all possible boundaries) back? What would set us loose to achieve?<br />
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In this sense welcoming your thoughts - Ralf<br />
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-43625189564502535522015-10-02T22:27:00.000+02:002019-02-10T23:01:18.380+01:00Problems are a Window for Future Opportunities - See and Catch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dresden-based chip manufacturer GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab1 in Dresden just has announced an employee reduction of around 800 (currently 3,700 people from all across the globe, and disciplines are employed).<br />
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The news have hit local ground via various media outlets.<br />
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Manufacturing in the semiconductor field is always accompanied by rather short production cycles (cars for example are still 'running' on a 5-7 year 'refreshment' cycle), capital intensive investment, long-lead planning, and highest level of quality (Zero-Defect the ultimate production goal).<br />
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Watch (before you continue to read) the passionate Welcome Speech by Ibrahim Ajami, former CEO of ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company), at the 2011 Abu Dhabi Media Summit - with a strong vision as that everything is possible.<br />
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As global demand shifts constantly, an rapidly increasing from formerly chips for PCs, then smartphones and tablets (decreasing in size, and raising in complexity) the Internet of Things (#IoT) is the upcoming pulling-force. The Internet of Things or as the German version is called Industrie 4.0 (focusing on the production side of society) however is still in its infant days, many people and companies around are not yet fully aware of the positive or general implications that it will bring (besides of course questions around security, privacy and other issues) to their lives and businesses.</div>
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However as the City of Dresden, is currently part of a network of 52 cities around Germany as part of the <a href="https://www.wissenschaftsjahr-zukunftsstadt.de/uebergreifende-infos/english.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Science Year 2015 - City of the Future</span></a>, and working on creating the visions for the Future of the City of Dresden <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23ddzu2030&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#DDzu2030</span></a> (the new hashtag is <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23DD2030&src=typd" style="color: #999999;" target="_blank">#DD2030</a>, are the common hashtags on Facebook and Twitter) this announcement from today should be taken as an opportunity to create the future for the city and the region (ranging as wide as Saxony, and beyond) bringing the creative potential into a (new) reality.<br />
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Why not engage passionate and well-educated employees not in full-time positions, rather reduce the working hours (of course also the income will decrease some), and on the other hand be able to co-create a future that is build on and around semiconductors and equipment/ applications that will be crucial for use in the IoT context, such as the <a href="http://www.telehealth-ostsachsen.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">CCS Telehealth-Ostsachsen</span></a> (currently only in German) project?<br />
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Quite on the edge, and some distance from Dresden away, <a href="http://thethingsnetwork.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">The Things Network</span></a>, an initiative from Amsterdam that has the vision to enable cities with open-source IoT solutions not only managed to bring this to Amsterdam in an outstanding short time but currently is scaling and spreading the word? Wouldn't it in this context make sense to put the complementary competencies together, and build on the strengths of a local chip manufacturer (with global connections), engage with Europe's largest microelectronics cluster (<a href="http://www.silicon-saxony.de/en/home.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Silicon Saxony e.V.</span></a>) and make <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23sachsendigital&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#SachsenDigital</span></a> a reality. Next week's semiconductor trade fair <a href="http://semiconeuropa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">SEMICONEuropa 2015</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23semiconeuropa&src=typd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#SEMICONEuropa</span></a> (Twitter activity) brings together all the local and global players in the field together to Dresden. Why not join in?<br />
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Even though the initial lines of this post may sound not positive this might open an unfamiliar path, joining in "<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/transforming-business-society-self-u-lab-mitx-15-671x" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">U.Lab - Transforming Business, Society, and Self</span></a>", and there already exists an international community locally in Dresden participating in this recent MOOC.</div>
RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-52997425541068323182015-07-20T11:33:00.004+02:002021-07-17T18:57:49.189+02:00What Theoretical Physics Brings to Entrepreneurship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Quite by serendipity, having lunch with a theoretical physicist from Asia some days ago I learned that theoretical physics is not plain theory, but the science field trying to make sense of seen reality. In short an experimental physicist finds a new material, which has some "unexpected" properties (that is the practical part). However, as <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Lewin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Kurt Lewin</span></a> </span>(1890-1947), the famous German-American experimental social psychologist, is quoted, "<i>There is nothing more practical than a good theory</i>" which underlies and explains that real-life phenomenon. For this very same reason theoretical physicists then work to figure out, with the help of computer simulations, perceived patters of reactions of the material due to change of particular parameters, and known knowledge, what the underlying root causes of the new material's properties, and how they can be used, and eventually made practical in future applications.<br />
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What has all this to do with entrepreneurship, and eventually innovation?<br />
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Let's have a look at innovation and how it comes (in various forms) into the world, and to practical use. Peter Drucker, "management guru" and "Renaissance Man" of the 20th century well respected in the global business community in some form laid out a "theory of innovation", namely the sources of innovations that lead eventually to their economical success. In "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" he lays out seven distinct sources, which range from "The Unexpected" to "New Knowledge". See Andre Kearns' Slideshare presentation for a good overview of these (and a condensed overview of the book itself) <a href="http://de.slideshare.net/andrekearns/innovation-and-entrepreneurship" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">here</span></a>.<br />
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Quite often the public focuses on the innovation based on new knowledge, such as technology-based (generally on new knowledge), and wonders why innovation is not taking off shortly after discovery, and first prototypes of possible products or services based on it. Due to Drucker this kind of innovation is the one with the longest lead time (and quite a high loser rate, due to the shift of other relevant parameters that change over time, especially shifts that touch society as a whole, such as demographics, immigration, or world politics) this should "<i>In the theory and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship, the bright-idea innovating belongs in the appendix</i>" ("The Daily Drucker", 20 July, p. 220).<br />
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So making sense of how innovations diffuse into society (and not just on some edges due to price, or perceived value by a minority) is more challenging than it looks like at first sight. Prof. John D. Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, Director MIT System Dynamics Group, not only gave quite a thought-provoking presenting in early 2008 stating that "<i>technological solutions are not enough to address the problem of creating a sustainable world</i>" but has covered the issue of innovation diffusion in his book "Business Dynamics - Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World" (chapter 9.3, Innovation Diffusion as Infection: Modeling New Ideas and New Products, p. 323-347).<br />
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To close this post, and keep the question open that underlines Kurt Lewin's "<i>There is nothing more practical than a good theory</i>", perhaps it is time for what Jay W. Forrester envisioned in 2007 at the International System Dynamics Conference in Boston in his speech "<a href="http://static.clexchange.org/ftp/documents/system-dynamics/SD2007-08SDTheNext50Years.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">System dynamics - the next fifty years</span></a>" and his statement at the end of the speech, "<i>We should be able to move sufficient understanding of the behavior of complex systems into the public sector.</i>"<br />
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Isn't a "school of thought" (even a quite independent department of an existing university), based on theory and practice alike, the "perfect" place to make this happen?</div>
RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-17942321913928349382015-05-21T15:53:00.000+02:002015-05-21T16:07:14.463+02:00The Creative Process is Key <div style="text-align: left;">
My personal role model about intercultural collaborative and most creative value creation is the <a href="https://plus.google.com/+SemperOperBallett/about"><span style="color: #999999;">Semperoper Ballet</span></a>, the ballet company within the <a href="https://www.semperoper.de/"><span style="color: #999999;">Semperoper Dresden</span></a> led by Creative Director Aaron S. Watkin since 2006.</div>
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After individual pieces created by contemporary choreographer William Forsythe have been presented at various productions on stage here in Dresden, now a full-evening ballet, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23impressingtheczar&src=typd">#ImpressingTheCzar</a>, is premiering tomorrow (7pm with box office at the house opening an hour earlier, with some luck you'll eventually get some tickets) with several performances after that (check out the Semperoper schedule).</div>
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In case you now got curious on how your creative thinking (and acting) process can be sparked by ballet and the creative process around check out <a href="http://www.williamforsythe.de/"><span style="color: #999999;">http://www.williamforsythe.de</span></a> where you'll find more work created by William Forsythe. Have a look at the following article by Prof. em. Edgar H. Schein on "<a href="https://de.scribd.com/doc/46295394/The-Role-of-Art-and-the-Artist-Edgar-H-Schein"><span style="color: #999999;">The Role of Art and the Artist</span></a>" that gives a few more thought inspirations on why it is valuable to visit a ballet performance (even or especially you are not familiar with the piece).</div>
RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-24412018981102125182015-01-04T11:19:00.002+01:002015-01-05T08:31:42.869+01:00CES2015 Ante Portas, and #LichtjahrDD #IYL2015 with it CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has now a 40-year history, and its 2015 edition is just about to start.<br />
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From January 6-9, 2015, Las Vegas will be host of one of the most prominent trade shows/ conferences / event around technology and its use in daily life. Most of us are surrounded by vast amounts of technology with "embedded power" which enables not only persons to monitor and track personal activity, but also improve the state of life in general (whether on a personal, organizational or social one).<br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">#<a href="http://www.cesweb.org/" target="_blank">CES2015</a></span> is going to be like a whirlwind, or "tech tornado" - the speed to capture all certainly for most of us (including myself, an AI support tool to not only monitor all the upcoming events, conversations, demonstrations, and review but to relate all this data to what I have gathered on data, knowledge and personal wisdom (if one could say) over the course of a good 40 years grown up in a connected home in the late 60's in Mainz-Lerchenberg where my parents were both working at the German Television ZDF).<br />
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It seems odd that smart metering even for the most common thing like central heating (not the wood fire place anymore) hasn't come into the mainstream yet. Even when you see newly built housing, or refurbishing of old houses there is seldom a focus on using smart technology.<br />
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How to capture all that what is going on during these days in Las Vegas at #CES2015? h/t <a href="http://eventifier.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Eventifier</span></a> and their team to make the almost impossible POSSIBLE (direct link to the aggregated overview, <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://eventifier.com/event/ces15/">http://eventifier.com/event/ces15/</a>)</span><br />
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Around two months ago I attended the workshop on<a href="https://storify.com/HTxA/smartcitydresden" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #999999;">#SmartCityDresden</span></a> (mostly German, but we worked to include the interested English audience as well, especially as Dresden is a major European hub for semiconductors, material science, and other underlying technologies and initiatives) here in Dresden at Technische Sammlungen (which houses the history of optical legacy of the city which once was home to cameras widely known around the world) and shared a few thoughts on it on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141107065835-15687350-the-living-city-citizens-and-technology?published=t&published=t" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">LinkedIn</span></a>.<br />
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In two weeks time the International Year of Light, <a href="http://www.light2015.org/Home.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#IYL2015</span></a>, will start and at Technische Sammlungen there will be the kick-off event of the local activities around light and light-based technologies <a href="http://eventifier.com/event/LichtjahrDD/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">#LichtjahrDD</span></a> [the provided link brings together all tweets that mention both mentioned hashtags and we are glad to have Eventifier as partner of the year-long event].<br />
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Without further due we'd wish all who read with excitement not only this blog, but looking forward to #CES2015 and the International Year of Light<br />
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HAPPY ENLIGHTENED YEAR 2015<br />
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<b>PS</b>.: Anybody interested to join the kick-off event in Dresden on Monday, January 19, 2015 please tweet to @LichtjahrDD using the hashtag #LichtjahrDD and further details will be delivered<br />
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<br />RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-86099558668259372332014-09-03T13:39:00.000+02:002019-08-11T07:25:24.444+02:00Two Conferences Seen Through One Digital Hole <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The world is a continuum, circling around itself, and around the sun and we as individuals have often the feeling being stuck in one single place.<br />
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Certainly that has been the case for centuries when we in our small villages seldom got notice about what happened such outside our hunting area. Inventions like the wheel, telegraph, telephone and lately the World Wide Web have changed that world view immensely. Not that we as a species have adapted to it yet fully. Of course place still matters, and small communities where we feel a kind of safety, and common understanding.<br />
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However what would you do if you'd year in two "global villages" there would something happening some thousand kilometers away, 9 time zones apart and where you perhaps don't even know a single person, and you even can't visit the one merely a 120 km away due to other restrictions?<br />
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Would you go?<br />
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Just imagine for a minute you'd be in the year 2020. Technology would be so advanced that on your room wall there would be an oversized OLED flat-foil-screen that would instantly connect with the conversations happening in both locations. You could follow what is being talked about, learn to know new people by sheer serendipity (as something catches your eye, and an instant later connects with some thoughts on your mind, or another occasion you'd talked about this topic months before).<br />
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Utopia?</h2>
Not quite. The world we live in seems to be in a lot of turmoil, and yet something is slowly emerging. The first time this caught probably everybody was in late 2008 when the global economy was hit by the financial crisis. The disconnect between real value creation, and what the banking sector (at large, including hedge fonds) was setting the bets on in order to grow the global economy in ways that seemed outrageous at this time. This is now almost to the date six years ago. Still it seems it is all about making more money, more profit for the sake of it.<br />
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No, two conferences at quite diverse locations - one in Silicon Valley right in San Francisco, and the other one not far from so-called "Silicon Saxony" in Leipzig - deal with on how to invest, and do good at the same time building up a sustainable social capital (<a href="http://socap14.socialcapitalmarkets.net/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">SOCAP14</span></a>), and the other tackling the questions in order to change the economic growth to rather a degrowth (<a href="https://www.degrowth.info/en/leipzig-2014/" target="_blank">Degrowth14</a>).<br />
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The most precious resources we as humans own is the time of life, and so there is a trade-off every time we have to decide to go to one or the other conference (in general between several activities that give value back to us).<br />
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So perhaps the best of our times in terms to engage with two conferences at the same time are the <a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/pdf/LauraBlack.pdf" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">boundary objects</span></a> that social networks enable us to create in order to facilitate, and ease the conversation across disciplines, in time & space, and accelerate the knowledge flow allowing us to create the serendipity bumps that often are the most memorable moments in life, where we have learned more than we could have imagined before they had happened.<br />
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To give an idea what it could be like see for <a href="http://eventifier.com/event/socap14" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#SOCAP14</span></a> and <a href="http://eventifier.com/event/Degrowth14" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#Degrowth14</span></a> just now on your screen.</div>
RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-18193879126031556412014-07-29T09:10:00.000+02:002014-07-29T09:10:16.139+02:00Sharing is Gaining - Knowledge Flow Acceleration by CrowdfundingSince mid-June 80 participants are learning about exponential technologies. The group is not just diverse in terms of languages, or places of origin (from Germany to Italy, Israel, Brazil, and others) but also their educational, and work background. From PhD students to serial entrepreneurs all can be found.<br />
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What bounds them together is the PASSION to apply exponential technologies to address humanity's GREAT CHALLENGES.<br />
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The place where all this happens is far away for most of us, in Silicon Valley, at <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">NASA Ames Research Center</span></a> (NASA research outreaches right where new technologies are applied early on in their development), founded in 2008 by philanthropist <a href="http://www.diamandis.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Peter H. Diamandis</span></a>, and inventor & futurist <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-biography" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Ray Kurzweil</span></a>.<br />
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Question stays, " Can we participate even though we haven't paid $25K+, and are not amongst the 80 lucky ones?"<br />
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Back in early 2009, we had just started to conceptualize a similar project for Europe's semiconductor, nano and life science tech hub Dresden, <a href="http://investcommunity.de/blogs/10" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">LockSchuppen - FutureLab2056 - SingularAcademy - CollabSpace</span></a>, we crowdsourced the translation into German of Ray Kurzweil's TED Talk "<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_announces_singularity_university" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">A University for the Coming Singularity</span></a>. Now German speaking audience can follow Ray's speech with translated subtitles.<br />
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Five years, and four applications for the Graduate Studies Program later there appeared, more by serendipity than planned search, an opportunity to bring the insightful Twitter conversations from Sinuglarity University to a broader public. A year ago, <a href="http://twitter.com/angieincampo" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Angela Incampo</span></a> and myself got invited to become the social media team for the <a href="http://bit.ly/118whSE" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">26th International Cartographic Conference</span></a> by the main organizer, <a href="http://bit.ly/1tViQ9j" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Prof. Manfred Buchroithner</span></a>. As conference proceeded, and the hashtag #iccDD2013 circled in the networks, we became aware of an event entry on <a href="http://bit.ly/1l919h1" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Eventifier</span></a>, a social media news aggregator and a startup themselves.<br />
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With the start of this year's #GSP14 the question arose, "Can we crowdfund the Basic Version of Eventifier to enable a possible future conversation with interested stakeholders who'd be interested to help to establish something similar as Singularity University in Silicon Saxony?"<br />
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Certainly a project well under the "waterline" of any serious investor, $99 sounding like everybody could pay it personally not needing a crowd (actually these were some of the comments I received from foreign, and local contacts who are active in entrepreneurship, and technology).<br />
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It started small with an initial post on this <a href="http://bluefuture2012.blogspot.de/2014/06/singularity-university-gsp14-race-is-on.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">GSP-dedicated blog</span></a>, now the first level ($99) has been reached with some overshooting funds.<br />
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Next level you can read about <a href="http://bluefuture2012.blogspot.de/2014/07/tension-rising-team-projects-starting.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">HERE</span></a>, and with an achievable goal for <a href="https://twitter.com/RalfLippold/status/491126818158944256" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#GSP15</span></a>.RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-38265457269268538872014-05-30T19:21:00.000+02:002014-05-30T19:21:03.733+02:00Green Tech Boost ... ... for your house, the car, the smart grid, ....<br />
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The possibilities are huge, yet we get our power still through mostly big power plants, often run by coal, nuclear power, or other.<br />
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Why not do it differently?<br />
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Scott and Julie Brusaw, co-founders of <a href="http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Solar Roadways</span></a> had another idea: "paving" the roads (which are in there country in rather bad shape) with solar panels.<br />
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It was in 2007 when Scott Brusaw found his way into the summer edition of Penn State's "<a href="http://www.mri.psu.edu/docs/focus-on-materials/FoM-Summer-2007.pdf" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Material Research Institute Bulletin</span></a>". Back then it sounded even more like a "crazy idea" than today. Nobody back than had a clue about new materials such as graphene, or other that play a major role in improving the efficiency of solar panels (not only for the roof). A Dresden-based spin-off of the Technical University Dresden, <a href="http://bit.ly/13hNK0R" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Heliatek</span></a>, is taking the concept of solar panels from the roof into the window, currently ramping up from prototyping to full-production in 2015. Scott also presented at TED<br />
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7 years later, Julie and Scott Brusaw, started an even bolder experiment: crowdfunding for ramping up to bring their first full-scale prototype out from the lab into production.<br />
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The goal: 1$ Million USD within 6 weeks (from April 21, 2014 - May 31, 2014)<br />
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Mission completed (and extended till June 30, 2014 as Scott has recently shared on the <a href="http://bit.ly/1jAlytl" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Indiegogo page</span></a> of the campaign).<br />
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What looks like an easy path to success wasn't clear five weeks ago, when funds only reached some 25k (May 5, 2014) and nothing much seemed to happen. But then an article appeared in <a href="http://www.wired.com/tag/solar-roadways/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wired Maganzine</span></a> (May 8, 2014), and things got into motion (<b>FIRST LEARNING</b>: a major respected and international magazine (online preferably) should capture and write about the project, drawing like-minded people into the crowdfunding process, either by contributing, or spreading the word). Just after a few days funds sprang up quite dramatically (<b>SECOND LEARNING</b>: once the campaign gets <br />
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traction other potential supporters join the crowd, and do want to be amongst the early movers). Of course the campaign is still some 95% short of the final goal and time is clearly running out - there is not doubt about that.<br />
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Over the days various supporters, especially ones who had the capability, and boldness not just to write once but several times about the up-dates, news about the campaign itself, or upcoming articles in magazines, and newspapers and to connect these across various social networks the "famous" Twitter hashtag came to use: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23solarroadways&src=typd" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#SolarRoadways</span></a> (<b>THIRD LEARNING</b>: never stop telling about the advancements, and share in various networks, staying authentic and passionate what you share).<br />
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collaborators, and companies bringing the pure vision of the two founders of Solar Roadways to a success (which will be certainly a step by step process, and will make most sense where need, and visibility of the new technology will be highest to bring forward the technology).<br />
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The learning lesson in one sentence for all entrepreneurs of different age, from teenager to senior is:<br />
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It's (a) never to late to go for a bold vision, (b) success may take time (in this case more than seven years), (c) don't stop bringing your dream into reality until you have finished.<br />
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Seen at close distance how delicately fine drawings are put onto the porcelain let's one appreciate the craftsmanship that is necessary to fulfill such exquisite quality. Passion, patience and deep knowledge paired together making the necessary mold. It was not a daily offered show room visit but a genuine insight into the production almost a normal working conditions at a Saturday - one of two yearly Open Days the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur MEISSEN® is offering to the interested public [next one is <a href="http://www.meissen.com/de/meissen-besuchen/veranstaltungskalender/tag-der-offenen-tuer" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">October 18, 2014</span></a> - don't miss when you are in the region]. </div>
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day the conversation with one of the artists, Monika Zeinar, who is very passionate about flowers made clear that passionate people don't stop where their daily (routine) work ends, but excel beyond. Her exhibition at <a href="http://www.hafenstrasse-meissen.de/hev/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=873:florales-stillleben-und-landschaften&catid=58:3d-galerie&Itemid=78" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Hafenstraße e.V.</span></a> (open from 5pm, except Tuesday) a socio-cultural center on the right-bank of the river on flowers, and landscapes inspired to not only plan to come back for the upcoming Open Day in October but learn more about the history, and current paths of the PEOPLE of MEISSEN®.<br />
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<br />RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-43290677716663766552014-03-26T15:50:00.000+01:002014-03-27T09:43:28.016+01:00#DATE14 - and what it has to do with the future Over the course of five days in late March 2014 an elite group of people are meeting for a conference in a place that is not as prominent at Barcelona (home of the <a href="http://bit.ly/1dr60vu" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mobile World Congress</span></a>), Las Vegas (home of <a href="http://bit.ly/1dvoFGQ" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">CES</span></a>) or Silicon Valley (home of to numerous to name).<br />
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Do you remember<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> <a href="http://https//twitter.com/search?q=%23ieeettm&src=typd&f=realtime" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#IEEETTM</span></b></a></span> back in 2012 that took place also at this relaxed city on the River Elbe? Have a look on what I wrote back then <a href="http://bizdesigndd.blogspot.de/2012/05/bridging-across-boundaries-technologies.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b>here</b></span></a>.<br />
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It's DRESDEN, a city on the edge and at the core of the emerging future. In the midst of Europe's hotspot for semiconductors, nanotech, biotech, life sciences and increasingly evolving adjacent application areas.<br />
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What sounds at first sight not worth visiting to the non-tech guy, transforms more to a surprise of serendipity. Of course it is a conference focusing on very technical, pre-application developments in<br />
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Surprises like the <a href="http://bit.ly/1fj9ziz" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">FlashAir™</span></a> by Toshiba, an up to 32GB SD-card with WiFi-ability are just among several serendipity encounters at this conference one would not expect.<br />
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The Excellence Cluster Center for Advanced Electronics Dresden cfaed at the TU Dresden presents its new superfast microchip '<a href="http://bit.ly/1llhALx" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Tomahawk 2</span></a>' which could play a more prominent role in the '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXEPzQgpok" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Tactile Internet</span></a>' (presentation during the <a href="http://bit.ly/1g0QSQg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Johannesberg Summit</span></a>) that its chair Prof. Gerhard Fettweis promoted just recently at the <a href="http://bit.ly/1gBTfin" style="color: #999999;" target="_blank">CeBIT</a>.<br />
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-4172740835671150042014-03-05T18:52:00.001+01:002014-03-05T18:54:17.005+01:00#Io ... in every aspect of our lives. Why not?Over the last two days <a href="http://bit.ly/1glRzpi" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#IoTEUsummit</span></a>, a smallish but rather prominent summit on issues around the rising relevance of the "Internet of Things" in everyday life took place in Brussels.<br />
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What seemed to get slowly into the public discussion over the last few years still seems to lack common naming, and thorough explanation (rather than definition) in the real-world context by the various stakeholders. Research, politics, technology providers, application makers, users, organizations, .... all seem to have quite a different view, and understanding of the issue, and the adjacent fields.<br />
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In a way it feels like a "Little United Nations", or the Germany of the 19th century with hundreds of small and tiny kingdoms. What once started off as <a href="http://bit.ly/1fHZQ4r" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#IoT</span></a> now has siblings called <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1f7RjI5" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#IoX</span></a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1hLyors" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#IoE</span></a></span> (Internet of Everything), <a href="http://bit.ly/1cuDs3X" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Cyber-Physical-Systems</span></a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/NwuNCE" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Industrie 4.0</span></a> (quite a German approach focusing on production use of IoT).<br />
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From a user's point of view the whole discussion could be reduced to the point, "Where does connected information make sense in the business/daily-life processes make sense, and brings added-value to the whole (process)?" instead of "Where can sensors be installed to make new business models create additional revenue?".<br />
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* #IoH - Internet of HumansRalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-80743332068472382452013-12-30T12:19:00.003+01:002021-07-17T18:55:39.973+02:00Innovation - Catching the MysteryWhen in late August at the <a href="https://icaci.org/icc2013/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">26th International Cartographic Conference</span></a> hundreds of experts on mapping flocked over the course of five days the conference rooms even an outsider of this "narrow", though, in our connected times more than relevant, the field could attach to the various sessions. The reason for that: every one of us has had a map in his or her hand for sure (if not on paper, or computer screen then on a mobile device).<br />
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The theme of the conference was "From Pole to Pole" and <span class="Apple-style-span">Prof. Manfred Buchroithner</span> laid out in a radio interview the specific aim was to bring regions outside the scope of easy reach into awareness. The use of the latest laser technology, data transformation, and the latest display technology (e.g. Plastic Logic) was the focus.<br />
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Could there come out real new and value-creating innovation out of such a conference, which by definition is often bounded to experts only?<br />
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In a WIRED article dated back in 2011 author, Mark Brown laid out what the Robust Robotics Lab at MIT was working on in the field of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), "<a href="http://bit.ly/1gaercd" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Kinect-carrying drone automatically builds 3D maps of rooms</span></a>". The project <a href="http://bit.ly/1dfIVsW" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Archaecopter</span></a> (filming archaeological sites) jointly done together by the HTW Dresden and the Freie Universität Berlin shows a more recent application also for "indoor" use.<br />
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Singularity University Spin-offs <a href="http://bit.ly/1kPR4Yu" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Matternet</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1eLxwEp" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ARIA Logistics</span></a> focus more on the transportation side of this new technological innovation. However, there is a lot in common between the different application fields, especially in terms of technology (behind it).<br />
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Too often is technology best to be used in our close vicinity, and personal needs (nitty-gritty things we encounter every day, or several times in our life that we wish to faster and easier to happen), and yet it often seems to need the detour via some special purpose field from which the technology may come into general public use, and become a true innovation (other than just an invention). What one often encounters (as myself this morning proposing to an employee of a kitchen shop using autonomous UAVs for 3D indoor mapping for flats or houses) is an instant of fear that comes of the listener to new ideas. The instant reaction was, "Honestly I am not in technology. Actually, we are using the traditional methods, which is sufficient. We don't need anything new!"<br />
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That got me more than thinking (once again) in which way innovation can be brought into the world without triggering fear in the people's minds who will be in one or the other way affected by technology?<br />
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Edgar H. Schein's paper on "<a href="http://bit.ly/1gf939S" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Kurt Lewin's Change Theory in the Field and in the Classroom: Notes Toward a Model of Managed Learning 1</span></a>" may shed some light on why innovation is so difficult to achieve.<br />
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My personal <b>TAKE AWAY</b>:<br />
It often comes to real breakthrough innovations when least expected (but the underlying forces, including timing and needs of stakeholders, have come together in a suitable way). Most often what made the innovation become reality was a need and a direct connection to the real-life experiences of the people who then make it possible.<br />
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Share your experience in the comments if you like.<br />
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Cheers, Ralf<br />
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<br />RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-62399179945928099342013-12-14T17:11:00.000+01:002016-06-03T14:48:06.861+02:00Engineering Reversed - Decision-Making RevisitedFollowing a lecture on social systems and the deeper forces behind it in an engineering context Nobel Laureate <a href="http://bit.ly/1j6nRKi" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Daniel Kahneman</span></a> once again came into sight.<br />
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In a world where exactness, concrete, plan, and measurable results are the essentials of the work ethics, it makes wonder how his thoughts, as it is touched on in "<a href="http://abundancethebook.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think</span></a>" in chapter three, come into play.<br />
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Decisions of engineers (not just the mechanical and electrical, but also the software and other subfields that are driven by hard facts, which also touch on doctors, architects, chemists, and physicists) tend to depend on clear facts, and the processes these generate.<br />
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Why can it then be that all too often decisions in these contexts are not as expected?<br />
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A recent example is the new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_City_Tunnel" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">Leipzig City Tunnel</span></a> which has gone into operation today, December 14, 2013, should have been opened four years ago, and it overarched the projected expenses by almost two-thirds. So there is evidence for improvement on how we make decisions.<br />
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Kahneman's <a href="http://bit.ly/1ddqhQc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">advice for strengthening decision-making capabilities</span></a> applies in many fields, including our own personal terrain.<br />
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All too often we are bound in our learned <a href="http://boundedrationality.wordpress.com/ideas/mental-models/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">mental models</span></a> which make it impossible to even question the most obvious (that could go wrong), and in the end we suffer by "unexpected" failure. Or put the other way round, even the most promising opportunities in the future are denied, as we (individually or as a group) are bound.<br />
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The advice for everyone out of the lecture first mentioned is to reflect on our own thinking (and the inherent mental models we carry on with our mind), and whether our assumptions about the world around us are "set in stone" (or just a mental model in our heads).<br />
<br />RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-87722409410440650402013-08-19T08:55:00.001+02:002020-03-28T16:20:19.368+01:00The Improvement Kata Handbook - by Mike Rother EtAl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Currently, I am attending a design thinking course <a href="http://bit.ly/19K5eqp" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#DTActionLab</span></a> (current <a href="http://bit.ly/14ckoBr" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">assignment challenge</span></a> due today), the International Conference on Engineering Design in Seoul <a href="http://bit.ly/15YYJII" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">#ICED13</span></a> just having been started today, it came to mind there is a more that Toyota has brought to the "world table".<br />
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"Lean" may be the buzzword, lots of consultants, and marketeers build their business on, selling standard solutions to clients who are urgently in need to solve their present pressing problems.<br />
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However, the wisdom is right inside our organizations we often see struggling, especially when we are the customer.<br />
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Can we as individuals, and groups harness this gold around us? Certainly, we only have to learn to see and take the choices wisely.<br />
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Mike Rother, Professor at the University of Ann Arbor, has recently shared - in creative commons terms - his book called:<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/Handbook/Full_IK_Handbook_v32.0.pdf" target="_blank">The Improvement Kata Handbook</a></span></b></h3>
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<b>PS</b>.: Thanks a lot, Mike & TEAM!!!</div>
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-39595532113462915772013-06-01T14:28:00.000+02:002018-04-08T21:35:13.127+02:00Unconnected Moves Smartly Joined Together May Lead to Great Future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In mid summer 2012 the <a href="http://bit.ly/10GmhEs" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Technical University Dresden</span></a> (TUD) obtained the prestigious title „<a href="http://bit.ly/18FD8ZV" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Excellence University</span></a>“ out of a years-long process in competition with other German universities. It happens to be the only one in the East-Germany countries (besides Berlin) and with good reasons so it seems.<br />
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The region around Dresden, Chemnitz, Freiberg, and in more general terms Saxony has a long lasting legacy of technical invention, technology-driven innovation, research stemming from a time when the early ore reserves were found, and new materials were starting to be used in the energy producing fields.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/11hPYLQ" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Rudolf Sigismund Blochmann</span></a> who not only was one of the founding fathers of the TUD but had brought the German-version of the gaslighting to wide use in Germany as an efficient energy usage for street lighting (which can also nowadays be seen in Dresden in action; info via <a href="http://bit.ly/ZAJfye" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">StadtWiki</span></a>). Around Chemnitz and Freital there had been intensive coal deep-ground digging with all ajacent innovation which spread to new transport infrastructures, and other innovations that last till today on which to build on for the future.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/ZthyFa" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">DRESDEN-concept</span></a>, the future concept of TUD around a synergetic university combining different diverse, and not always obviously connecting, fields like material science, semiconductors, arts, entrepreneurship, libraries, life sciences, and not least, nor last energy creation. The intent of this partnership of these institutions is to not only draw out the best of all involved partners ranging from Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz and Max-Planck Institutes but to facilitate the power of arts, and sozio-science fields for tackling the „grand challenges“ ahead of us with effective, and efficient for education, and making use of this knowledge across boundaries of disciplines, generations, gender, and cultures.<br />
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One of these „grand challenges“, energy, which also is one of the main fields of a university of a quite contrary kind, as its curriculum changes every six months which holds it back to be acknowledged as a „real“ university, yet called <a href="http://singularityu.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Singularity University</span></a>, drew in 250 researchers, scientists, and executives to two days on the River Elbe last week to discuss new ways to create energy in sustainable, and new ways.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/17I8aTW" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Fraunhofer IWS</span></a>, one of several Fraunhofer institutes based here in Dresden due to the strong technology-based community, and future-orientated wise moves of a handful of institute leaders, and politicians after the reunification to make effective use of the available resources in the region, was host of this conference. The pulling force of the conference has been the Dresden-based „<a href="http://bit.ly/11K5IZL" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Dresden Innovation Center Energy Efficiency DIZE</span></a>“, funded by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the Free State of Saxony. Apart from scientific research, and economic aspects the center focuses on the creation of future scientists, and engineers in the broad field of energy across disciplinary boundaries.<br />
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More on the conference can be found at the conference website "<a href="http://bit.ly/Yjptpv" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Energy in Future</span></a>" and on <a href="http://bit.ly/15odTtX" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Twitter</span></a>.<br />
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The topics of the threads reached from thermoelectrics, solar energy, photovoltaics, energy storage, mobility, fuel cells and energy efficiency, and offered a wide range of insight into an amazing field for „outsiders“, as well as sparking ground for future collaboration, and creation of projects on bringing technologies into practical use for the "insiders".<br />
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Besides providing direct benefit for members of the research institutes as well as their direct project partners in the form of meeting and exchanging ideas in condensed matter, coffee breaks enabled the conversation across boundaries. It could be learned that public transportation companies with tram networks, such as the <a href="http://bit.ly/15qL0wr" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG</span></a> that is currently testing hybrid-electric busses, can offer electrical energy storage of a kind that has been not yet really tapped in. For providing the electric energy for the tramways continuous current at high voltage is provided by transformer substations (spread around the network within the city). These transformer substations can be further used in the future as electric storage stations for electric cars, e-bikes, and alike – the infrastructure is there, now it is time for innovation, and business model creation to set this potential to effective work for society.<br />
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As the just announced stop of operations of <a href="http://bit.ly/12nbMJo" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Better Place</span></a> (which filed for bankruptcy in Israel), a company focusing on battery swapping technologies for electrical cars with headquarters in Palo Alto, and first prototype markets in Denmark and Israel showed once more the difficulty that "good technologies"despite good intent, and visions in a world of "normal energy providing" can eventually take. It takes bold visions, and smart moves alongside when technology innovation is going to become striving business models that last for decades, or centuries into the future. For sure is only that the future is unclear, full of surprises, and that new ways to tackle the great challenges of humanity (energy, food, health, housing, education, etc.) of which energy is amongst the most fundamental ones, it takes courageous steps out of the research, and prototype world to make a fertile business out of it, and generate the money to further fuel the future research in these fields, and create lasting economic wealth.<br />
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What could demonstrate this challenge better than the (rather surprising) announcement of closing of the <a href="http://bit.ly/19vUI3V" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Collaborative Research Center 804</span></a> at TUD due to not relieved funding for this cross-disciplinary spanning project that reaches also on the impacts of technology implementation in society. Dresden, and its citizens have the ability not only to power up economic wealth, and understanding the dynamics behind it by using its technology-based engine, but combine it with its legacy in social sciences as well.<br />
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The newly put into operation of <a href="http://bit.ly/11dUcRC" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">UNU-Flores</span></a> (part of the United Nations University) at WTC Dresden in joint cooperation with TUD is focusing on the education around integrated resources management, and doesn't the described situation provide a chance of the future that could be no better?<br />
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Integrating the technology, engineering approach with entrepreneurial visionaries, and glueing both by learning to see, perceive and understand the underlying dynamics by establishing a new institution at the TUD that not only generates its "own funding" by enabling entrepreneurs (these can be very well be former PhD students, or graduate students as well as university personnel) to build their (even though small in the beginning) companies.<br />
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The <b>VISION</b> is there to set to work, and Dresden could not be a better place for what the founder of the field system dynamics, Jay W. Forrester, envisioned in his "<a href="https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://static.clexchange.org/ftp/documents/system-dynamics/SD2007-08SDTheNext50Years.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi0_eHzs6vaAhVRZ1AKHXPTAa4QFjAAegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw2k0Dh06IxSa3kQTsnfP_li" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">System dynamics - the next fifty years</span></a>" talk at the <a href="http://bit.ly/1464RSG" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ISDC 2007</span></a> in Boston.<br />
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If a new cross-disciplinary institute focusing on system dynamics here in Dresden could be outcome from these rather unconnected looking events then a "small step today may lead to bold moves into the future" soon.<br />
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The Team of <a href="http://twitter.com/HTxA" target="_blank">HTxA</a><br />
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RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994975278707682572.post-14442118300251641022013-04-18T10:36:00.000+02:002013-05-01T22:06:50.099+02:00Light Shapes the Path of our Future"Ancient people seem to have understood perfectly well the economic life is a matter of adding new goods and services. But instead of seeing the logic and order by which this happens, they saw magic." (<a href="http://bit.ly/15eWeqF" target="_blank">Jane Jacobs</a>, The Economy of Cities)<br />
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Light is almost magic. In form of the electric light bulb just being banned lately in Europe by law, and the <a href="http://bit.ly/Z2wZEE" target="_blank">Energiewende</a> (due to the events in Japan in the <a href="http://bit.ly/MVwkfS" target="_blank">earthquake</a>, and tsunami in spring 2011) it has become an issue that drives innovation around new technologies - sometimes, even by magic.<br />
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Here in Dresden not only a governement-funded large-scale project, called <a href="http://bit.ly/10SzfuC" target="_blank">#CoolSilicon</a> in order to lower the energy use of future mobile applications, going down to the processor itself, but other "edgy" fields around technology inventions, and the adjacent innovations from it emerge. Still at a small scale one has to admit, however growing at exponential rate.<br />
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The field in question is <a href="http://bit.ly/ZwX5fk" target="_blank">#OrganicElectronics</a>, and especially <a href="http://bit.ly/11sOqxv" target="_blank">#OLED</a> lighting which is still in an infant stage compared to traditional lighting.<br />
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What may be so special about OLED lighting, that even whole conferences, or at least major parts of such are covering on the underlying technologies, research, and pilot projects?<br />
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OLED (organic light emitting diods) is mainly a flat, scalable lighting based on organic material free of hazardos material like HG which can be adapted, and shaped in forms only you can imagine. About a year ago <a href="http://twitter.com/angieincampo" target="_blank">Angela Incampo</a> proposed the concept of <a href="http://bit.ly/11sPbGV" target="_blank">#OLEDine</a> during the <a href="http://bizdesigndd.blogspot.de/2012/06/7th-silicon-saxony-day-accelerating.html" target="_blank">7th Silicon Saxony Day</a> here in Dresden to bring this to performing arts, namely ballet in order to combine the beauty of dance with the engineering genius of OLED, and the design spirit of fashion makers [LINK].<br />
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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft one of the world's largest industry-driven research commuities, on the edge to academics, is not only well-established in Dresden due to a long history in microelectronics, and machinery but holds a major part of the activities in this new lighting field. Favorable conditions like <a href="http://bit.ly/13mqCze" target="_blank">GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab1</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/ZthyFa" target="_blank">DRESDEN-concept</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/XSD4ES" target="_blank">SEMICONEuropa</a> (especially with the panels at <a href="http://bit.ly/17r4UH4" target="_blank">Plastic Electronics 2013</a>, on Twitter more via <a href="http://bit.ly/17IdrZ9" target="_blank">#PlasticElectronics2013</a> soon) are the drivers for what emerged last week:<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/13k7ApA" target="_blank">Fraunhofer COMEDD</a>'s official opening as an independant industry research institute (especially in the field of OLED and bi-directional microdisplays [mentioned in <a href="http://bit.ly/11A2lBL" target="_blank">WIREDUK</a> magazine, p. 51]<br />
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Taking the chance to make the opening not just a small dot on the event calendar the following day the <a href="http://bit.ly/YccD7U" target="_blank">1st Industry Partners Day of Fraunhofer COMEDD</a> pulled in almost 100 partners of ongoing projects from close and far to learn more about what can be achieved for society with these new technologies. The program was overwhelming, and diverse - from organic solar cells, to sensors in medical use, use cases of interactive bi-directional microdisplays such as for <a href="http://bit.ly/13g7fbb" target="_blank">#GoogleGlass</a> [<a href="http://bit.ly/14y1oyP" target="_blank">GoogleGlass specs</a> for the serious geek]. Even though this one day was certainly not enough to capture and digest all the input, and see the vastly broad (currently) loose connections to future use fields it pulled the interest by the participants who had come not only from Germany, but from Europe as well. <a href="http://bit.ly/Yz7V8Z" target="_blank">#SEMICONEuropa</a>, 8-10 October 2013 in Dresden will certainly bring the next, and longer opportunity to learn more about the research, and industry chances that are connected with Dresden.<br />
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During the talks one thing became quite clear: from single pilot product to small-scale, and scalable projects to bring this new energy efficient OLED lighting technology into public awareness, and then use is the main challenge. The OLED substrate from <a href="http://on.fb.me/XHVmGA" target="_blank">NOVALED</a>, another Dresden-based technology startup is in the newest smartphones made by SAMSUNG, and is one of many small steps on the <a href="http://bit.ly/Y25DZW" target="_blank">#SiliconSaxony</a> road towards success, to learn, and build on. And it needs more than just establishing new tech tools to do the early production. The interweaving of technology, (unaware) customers, and innovative business models is the challenge of today's exponentially accelerating technology arenas. Too often the "Just think big"-attitude, only acting as a potential buyer/ industry partner when the concrete outcome in financial terms is the one and only key driver that keeps technology innovations too often "in the basement" or early stage scaling.<br />
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What is the global grand challenge that OLED in specific could be of help? It certainly has to do with energy (because these use a "drop of it" compared to normal lighting facilities), and the beauty, and natural light temperature they give in comparison to ultra-bright LED spots, or "heating ovens" that we still call light bulbs.<br />
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We are certainly in the very early stage of a rippling shift in the adjacent industry, especially around lighting, and energy infrastructure, and just thinking a step further can disrupt the current business fabric fully. When your OLED is powered by your organic PV panels wrapped around your house, or sealed in the doubling of your house's windows what else will be different?<br />
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Overall this intense <a href="http://bit.ly/YwMDVc" target="_blank">#ipd2013</a> (Industry Partners Day) on April 10, 2013 was a future talk on the edge of a hot innovation hub, waiting to erupt into economic local growth opportunities once the focus of public, and business organizations rescope, and broaden the focus away from solely bringing technology into being, but build on the value-creation chain from there. For this small bold actions, changes in innovation funding, and working on effective innovation funding approaches, and its acceleration appreciating the truly new will open up the "Opportunity Space" towards <a href="http://bit.ly/11jYlTq" target="_blank">#Abundance</a>.RalfLippoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15149352083082630755noreply@blogger.com0