May 2012
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Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where... →
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April 2012
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Collaborative Consumption Business Models
Presentation delivered at NESTA by Rachel Botsman, responsible for coining the term Collaborative Consumption.
SlideShare: Purpose with Profits
March 2012
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Testing a Better Place Car
Just came back from a trip to Tel Aviv where I participated as speaker at the event “Boosting Eco-Innovation and Resource Efficiency to go Towards a Green Economy in Israel”, as part of the Horizon2020 program.
There, I met a manager from Better Place who organized a tour to their visitor center. Here some video impressions of the experience. I recommend you to check Better Place entrepreneur...
February 2012
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Leancamp Barcelona
This weekend we attended the first Leancamp Barcelona, and we really enjoyed it.
Leancamp is an unconference – an open, interactive, multi-track event – which brings together the world’s Lean, Agile and Design-led business leaders, and practitioners from different disciplines. It’s a high-energy day focused on learning and knowledge transfer.
You can download our notes from the event.
December 2011
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RT @ericries: Idea Arena Podcast – The Lean Startup with Eric Ries – Part I « Todd Sattersten http://t.co/94x7xpF6
Trends For 2012: Ten Innovators Share Their Thoughts @PSFK: http://t.co/BrqMloNd
Changers Debuts World’s First Social Energy Marketplace http://t.co/mmyxi422 @changerscom
Over 300 people already invested 70.000 euros on world-changing companies. Did you? http://t.co/TYyZHlOJ
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The Future of Sustainable Design Thinking
Steve Bishop is global lead of environmental impact at the design and business innovation firm IDEO:
There’s a need for making sustainability compelling to people in ways other than adhering to policies, avoiding regulatory encounters. This is an opportunity for growth in business, and an opportunity for positive impact. Ideas flow in a generative nature, building on one another.
Keep...
RT @core77: Double Diamond for Sustainable Strategy: Participatory LCA and Design Thinking, by Stephen Clune and Simon Lockrey: http:// …
We invite you to the Finnish screening of Design the New Business http://t.co/riY540jP #designthinking #design
Adam Greenfield @agpublic: Forget about smart cities, let’s talk about networked citizens in open systems. Interview by Ideas for Change http://bit.ly/t2IDHn
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The Kaleidoscope Mind
The term kaleidoscope is Greek and is loosely interpreted as “an observer of beautiful forms.” So what, then, is a kaleidoscope mind? A type of mind that is agile, flexible, self-aware, and informed by a diversity of experiences. It’s a mind that is able to perceive any given situation from a multitude of perspectives at will, selecting from a rich repertoire of lenses or...
November 2011
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RT @IdeationCards: Global Sustainability Jam video available feat Ideation for Positive Impact http://t.co/bl555we3 @enviu @seosdesign
Happy to see that Barcelona has an Open Data program http://t.co/3wI9md8V #smartcities
Design thinking: time to move on? http://t.co/UYCPXQ9N
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Hackers Give Rise to New Ideas
Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent.
Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played, instead of scolding them, it encouraged them, which gave birth to a whole culture of ideas.
Keep reading - via PSFK
Today, intelligent competition means collaboration #update7
At the presentation of “How’re you Barcelona?” cracking the code of the creative class. [pic]: http://t.co/ov9Wi6S2
Barcelona Clean Energy Innovation Tour - Video http://t.co/R5vT3BlR via @bcn_business
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In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change
The book In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change, explores the Helsinki Design Lab Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It’s particularly geared towards problems that have no single owner. Currently HDL...
Seis grandes empresas y el Gobierno Vasco crean el primer polo de innovación en ecodiseño http://t.co/VJMRNLP5
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Open Design Will Change Everything
At Open-Designism we find this great collection of Open Design examples. There, we learn that design is totally open as it bears 4 freedoms;
Freedom to use, including making it
Freedom to study how the design works and to change it to make it do what you wish
Freedom to redistribute copies of the design, so you can help your neighbours
Freedom to distribute copies of your own modified...
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Airdrop wins James Dyson Award
The James Dyson Award is a design competition for engineering, industrial and product design students or recent graduates which emphasizes problem solving, inventiveness and creativity. Edward Linacre’s Airdrop won the overall prize in the 2011 James Dyson Award. This year’s brief was to “Design something that solves a problem”
Here an illustration of how the Airdrop system works.
via PSFK
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Barcelona Hosts Smart City Expo
In 2050, 75% of the world population will live in an urban environment. The constant population growth will require an urgent reflection on how these spaces will absorb and facilitate the life of their inhabitants. Fira de Barcelona’s new event, Smart City Expo & World Congress, which will be held from 29 November to 2 December, responds to each of the challenges that will arise with...
RT @IdeationCards: Global Sustainability Jam pictures available online http://t.co/fXb8OFEf http://t.co/AX7f3FW2
RT @BeUnreasonable: 3 days remain to apply to #Unreasonable2011! 50 mentors, 20 funds, 24 peers, 100 investors: http://t.co/4EwKE7tW #socent
RT @cltucci: Radically new: Podcast based on research with @LucaBerchicci http://t.co/xG9ffUYC
Yeah! thanks RT @JWBode: I have just invested in Enviu http://t.co/StbrkRp8 #crowdfunding
Gracias a ti! RT@tonitio: me acabo de convertir en socio mini-micro-tiny-minoritario de @enviu! http://t.co/pfhselUs
RT @frogdesign: A look at the design-week phenomenon around the world…and how it affects local economies: http://t.co/tdi13mIC (by @rjmac)
October 2011
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Jason Calacanis interviews Eris Ries from Lean Startup @calacanis @ericries http://t.co/LMUhlrAZ
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First Flash Build by Nodstrom Innovation Lab
Today we learned about Nodstrom Innovation Lab, a lean startup within the Fortune 500 company Nodstrom (fashion & apparel retail).
In this video, you can see how the Nodstrom Innovation Lab team performs a so-called “Flash Build”; similar to a flash mob but in this case they arrive to a retail without prior notice, deploy their material and aim to build a working app within 5...
Official introduction of http://t.co/Nmzzawpt, building a green & competitive economy @ Casa Milà (La Pedrera http://t.co/sesGwDeT
RT @openp2pdesign: 3D Printing Event (@3dprintingevent) is about to start and you can follow it online here http://t.co/SNilM7DG #3Dprin …
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Revenge of the Electric Car
Revenge of the Electric Car, the sequel of Who Killed the Electric Car is coming out and I can’t wait to get hold of it!
Check PSFK’s screening review.
RT @BeUnreasonable: Unreasonable Institute in the @NYTimes (by @hannahseligson)!! http://t.co/suTmVUum #socent #startup #unreasonable2012
Interactive Dress Becomes Transparent With A Combination Of Technology And Intimacy @PSFK: http://t.co/Nv2oeVcl
Food for thought: Is Barcelona being spoilt by tourists? @BBC RT @Petzdelux http://t.co/NVSPzf2G
RT @JWBode: New magazine “looking forward to our renewable future” http://t.co/limXwqyK. Issue Jan 2012 on crowdfunding, lots more & you …
Why Fixers Will Save Our Planet - Fixers - Technology - The Atlantic http://t.co/HAYZIywk
Follow TEDx Rotterdam Live at http://t.co/tqq0ij7p @TEDxRotterdam
Enviu BCN will be at Global Sustainability Jam introducing http://t.co/DIbt2CBx @GSusJam @claropartners @Enviu
Cheatsheet of P2P car rental players http://t.co/knNBRd1A
RT @NoSomosHormigas: Nos entrevistan a @DorisBCN y a @javicreus en http://t.co/ynSBASTz via @la_informacion
Vote for Sustainable Dance Club to win the Accenture Innovation Awards http://t.co/lYVoaqpJ @sus_dance_floor
Wozniak on Jobs http://t.co/iujppD4P @stevewoz
Reviewing candidates for the upcoming pre-incubation program @Dnamo. Looks very promising! http://t.co/gmpoPx0v
Últimas plazas para el primer posgrado y MBA para emprendedores sociales. Apúntate! http://t.co/7fx8Iz1z
Biggest wind turbine in the world designed in Barcelona http://t.co/rctYEA0C