We live in a time where information is everywhere. As a result there is a lot of noise, trends and buzz words. Some things are cool, others are not. The field of literature that sometimes is referred to as airport … + Read more

One of the speakers during Innovation in Mind is Ray Kurzweil. For those interested, a documentary, The Transcendent Man, about the life and ideas of Kurzweil, can now be downloaded, and you will find it here.

There is something alluring about celebrating a lone innovative genius as the main force behind those fantastic products that we use and love. I admit that I too do this once in a while. For some people are simply astonishing … + Read more

In 2005 Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford. It is a great speech and he clearly states the importance of following your own path and that dropping out of college actually can help you see new solutions and … + Read more

For the last two weeks I have been in the US doing some research work at Stanford University. And as much as I have enjoyed spending time at campus I have to admit that the small everyday things that I … + Read more

In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published his famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Despite the fame of the German author and his novel about the first world war, I will focus this post on what is happening today … + Read more

That failure matters is something that Silicon Valley long have recognized. Many of the entrepreneurs in the Bay area have failed more than once before finding a working business idea and business model. Steve Blank has even defined a term … + Read more

In much of the writings on innovation we have a tendency to connect it to success in some sense. But failure matters and can be an important driver to achieve successful innovation. JK Rowling in her commencement address at Harvard … + Read more

Every day we hear about innovation. Companies strive to innovate, policy makers try to devise new methods to increase the innovative output of cities, regions and countries and we as individuals try be innovative in our private lives. There is … + Read more