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Metabolix catching a waveWill sustainable economics extend to plastics? My guest Carl Berke does not think so. Metabolix, a small public company in Cambridge, thinks different.
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Innovation Tip: Limits to growth in corporate innovationFord has adopted innovation as its new theme, and a number of studies indicate that growth through innovation is the top priority in most large companies. Yet the same studies provide some reasons why corporate innovation performance has been so poor.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Public PrototypingAs an antidote to "crowding out" of corporate innovation efforts, consider public prototyping commitments.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Brazil succeeds with biofuelsThanks to a series of innovations, ranging from flex fuel cars to process improvements in sugar processing, Brazil plans to be energy independent in 2006. Bio-fuels have enabled the country to keep its use of gasoline from growing, and have also revitalized its sugar industry. Can other countries follow in Brazil's path?MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: One big problem for ethanol in the U.S.While Brazil's ethanol industry has become successful over 20 years, there is one big problem with ethanol in the US - gas stations...MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Pfizer and ExuberaOn 27 January, 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Exubera, Pfizer’s new inhalable form of insulin. Will the product succeed? The pharmaceutical industry thinks so, but history demonstrates that its success may not be so assured.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Innovations to Watch 2006Judging by the products on offer, 2006 will be a vintage year for innovations, following on a very good 2005 and a mediocre 2004.This is the fifth year I've previewed innovations to watch.. and in this update, I'll talk about one of the most intriguing innovations ... E85 Ethanol.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Wal-mart's new productsWal-Mart thinks it can do a better job in identifying successful new products than can its suppliers, sophisticated consumer products companies like Coke and Procter and Gamble.They may be right!MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Foxes and RabbitsCan big companies innovate? One corporate insider thinks not, and some research backs him up.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: "BHAGs" for InnovatorsBack in 1994, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote about the importance of "big hairy audacious goals," or BHAGs in their book "Built to Last." What does this look like for an innovator?MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: "IBHAG" for CompaniesAn earlier podcast talked about Innovation BHAGs or IBHAGs. How can companies use these to improve performance?MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: American Idol and Errors of OmissionThe TV show "American Idol" is a huge hit in the US, but it was turned down by all the networks before Rupert Murdoch pushed Fox to buy it. This post discusses why this may be true.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Sony, Blu-Ray, and the S curveSony is trying to put a brand new technology into its "bet the company product," the PS3. Here's why it's going to have big problems.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Future of law firm innovationWhat are future prospects for law firm innovation? My research suggests that clients need to play a bigger role.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Line and Staff ToolsDifferent kinds of innovation tools have very different characteristics -- line vs staff is one way to think about them.MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Internet Groceries 2.0No more webvan but look at FreshDirect!MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Innovation Tip: Pfizer's Silver LiningWhat's good about cancelling the only blockbuster you have in development?MP3 FileListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
