Innovation Rankings
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:10. So Germany was…
Tag: innovation
App In, Driver Out: Why Digital Concierge Services aren’t Quite the Future
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:07. Two things, side…
Urban innovation and research labs & programs
[Work in progress!] Starting a list of urban innovation labs & programs, research programs in that field and the like. What will be included in this list? At…
Questioning the Euro tech narratives
There’s a been a lot (a lot!) of talk about Europe’s, and particularly Germany’s, take on digitization and tech innovation. Sometimes using the Industry 4.0 terminology (connected factories…
Berlin Night @ Tokyo (slides)
As part of a Berlin delegation of technologists, startups and connectors, Bistream kindly invited me to Tokyo to speak at a number of events and meet the local…
A visit to KOIL
After catching up on some work and admin, I was invited to join a meeting over at KOIL, the Kashiwa no ha Open Innovation Lab. It’s part venture…
The year of the connected device, but consumer IoT startups face big challenges
Over on the BoschSI Internet of Things blog, I contributed a short piece on the challenges that startups in the consumer IoT space are facing. There is hardly…