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wood? Which Swedish city is one of the five most
sustainable in the world? Find the answers in
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The process of finding new ideas is not what it used
to be. Today, companies get help in developing new
products from the most unexpected sources.
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Africa faces a kick-off in a double sense: Besides
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mic lift-off. Also, new countries are at risk of being
hit by the obesity crisis of the Western world.
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David Gottfried is an environmental capitalist
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New ideas are critical to today’s global companies in
finding new business opportunities. The road
to new innovations is becoming increasingly varied.
More and more ideas are emerging through collaboration
with external designers, researchers and customers.
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e-mail tool as an example of how com-
petition gives rise to new ideas. Cus-
tomers here have maximum freedom.
In just a few minutes, they can down-
load their e-mail and then switch to
Google is continu- another e-mail service because custom-
ers can’t be locked into the architecture
ously working to – the company has to develop services
that are really good.
create an innova- Google is continuously working to
create an innovative corporate culture,
tive corporate cul- all in order to maintain the feeling found
in a tiny start-up company. Employees
ture, all in order to are encouraged to spend 20 percent of
their working hours on something other
maintain the feel- than their actual duties.
“The fact that people can spend one
ing found in a tiny day a week on their own work doesn’t
mean they have time off,” Lundblad
start-up company. says. “Everyone provides an account of
what they’ve done, but in return they’re
already has,” Chesbrough says. “It’s allowed to be innovative.”
not a prerequisite for development, but Even though in the 12 years of its
those who use open innovation increase existence Google has grown into a cor-
the odds of meeting their objective.” poration with offices around the globe,
Nicklas Lundblad, who is stationed the image of Google as a great innovative
at Google’s head office in Mountain playground has been preserved. How
View, California, and works with pub- can this kind of innovative corporate cul-
lic policy and international research ture be translated to other industries?
contacts, is a strong supporter of an
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“Innovation is no longer an internal Not only do they make a product, but
matter for a company but rather a net- they also have to think about the prob-
work process between the company lem it solves – that babies cannot use a
and the community,” Lundblad says. toilet. They go from creating a prod-
uct to solving a problem, so they can ask
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ple, companies once built something are for this problem. It may mean that
remarkable that gave them competitive completely new things are developed
advantages for years to come. Today, or that something that already exists is
Lundblad says, a comparison can be improved.
made between innovation and evolu- “Regardless of whether they do like
tion. Innovation, like evolution, is an Google and set aside time for innova-
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most people spend a large part of their
time thinking about things that aren’t
their immediate task,” says Dariush
Ghatan, founder of the consultancy
fi rm Googol, which works with innova-
tion and corporate venturing.
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energy in a direction where the organi-
zation has an ability and interest in
offering solutions, so that it will be
commercially viable and also capture
and develop the flow of ideas in the
right direction,” Ghatan says. “Other-
wise it’s easy to spend energy on things
that never generate value.”
An idea box in the cafeteria is by far
the worst way to capture these ideas,
he says. What’s needed is a clear, devel-
oped strategy that encourages employ-
ees, as well as customers, suppliers and
other interested parties, to come up
with good ideas.
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set still exists in companies to far too
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of boxes and packaging solutions are better in a store environment.”
designed for SCA’s customers across To fi nd new solutions, SCA is work-
the globe. That accounts for a lot of ing in close cooperation with custom-
creativity, but the really cutting-edge ers in different industries. Together
innovation is going on in Brussels. they defi ne the strategy for collab-
“Here’s where we develop the pack- oration, both for the short and long
aging concepts that customers don’t term. “It’s a new way of working in the
know they need yet,” says European industry,” Wouters says.
design director Wim Wouters, who
heads SCA’s Innovation Center in E6/B2=3AB63>/19/57<5 of
Brussels, which is three years young. the future look like? Recyclable, intel-
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used for years to come. pioneering ideas such as entirely novel Challenge 2009 was to “create a new
“Here in Brussels, we work with concepts for retail sales. chocolate experience in-store.” This
developing concepts that our custom- “It’s a bit like a concept car,” he says. year’s challenge goes under the head-
ers don’t know anything about yet but “It’s there to be looked at, but you can’t ing “fat-free packaging,” where the
can’t afford to be without,” Wouters operate it because the fuel that’s needed objective is to develop packaging that is
says. “Our customers are increasingly hasn’t been developed yet. Yet the car is close to nature, where – as in nature –
looking for advice and inspiration, and there and expands your way of think- everything has a function.
we want to be the packaging supplier ing and allows you to take small steps
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“In the future, it will be more and some of these ideas.” design work, but somewhere in the
more important to look at the areas For the second year in a row, SCA innovation process you have to open up
packaging is being delivered to,” he has challenged design students from to new ideas, expand your ideas so that
says. “Many packaging solutions are around the world to fi nd new pack- you don’t end up with tunnel vision,”
sold in retail stores. If we want to be aging solutions. The test in its Design Wouters concludes.
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Brokers provide
research know-how
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been working with innovation inter-
mediaries – knowledge brokers who
procure knowledge in fields in which
SCA lacks skills or know-how. The sys-
tem is simple. Let’s say that SCA wants
to increase its knowledge about sub-
stances that absorb odors or is look-
ing for a substance that has specific and
desirable qualities for a given product.
“We outline the technical essentials
of the question that we’re looking for groups providing answers to each ques-
an answer to,” says Bengt Järrehult, tion,” Järrehult says. “We’ve sent out 25
Director of innovation and knowl- questions so far. But we only pay those who
edge management for SCA’s Personal manage to provide a solution to a set of pre-
Care products. “Without identifying determined conditions, and that’s about
who is asking the question, the ques- half of them.”
tion is sent out to selected segments of So far, collaboration with the knowledge
a worldwide network of 180,000 sci- network InnoCentive in Boston has led to
entists.” Researchers who think they SCA’s R&D finding completely new materi-
have answers can sign a confidential- als and analytical methods.
ity agreement and then access more “Sure, it’s fun to find out things on your
detailed information about the issue. own, but it can be more important to build
“This mainly concerns questions on what others have done,” Järrehult says.
in pure physics and chemistry, and we “It requires a bit more humility and even
have had between 150 and 650 research more intelligence.”
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of misery came to naught, and the continent is now
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providing aid or reporting on violence.” African president has pursued policies
But a growing number of interna- that have made thrifty use of economic
tional companies are discovering the resources. Unlike the US and a number
continent’s potential. While foreign of European countries, South Africa
direct investment fell by 20 percent glo- has not weathered the crisis by generat-
bally in 2008, it reached a record high ing enormous and growing deficits.
in Africa. When the kick-off for the fi rst World
Cup game takes place on June 11 in
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to consumerism after college, however, now includes representatives from 66 ing with 10 clean technology compa-
when Gottfried joined a booming real national green building councils. nies in the building industry. He invests
estate development fi rm in Washing- Sustainable buildings sit lightly on his expertise as a member of the com-
ton, D.C. He recounts those years in his the Earth. They conserve water and pany’s advisory board in return for
memoir Greed to Green: The Transfor- energy, reduce greenhouse gas emis- stock in much the same way that ven-
mation of an Industry and a Life. When sions and improve interior air quality. ture capitalists invest money.
the real estate bubble burst in the early They use renewable materials and min-
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for ways to promote environmentally wherever possible. ing concept a step further when he
friendly construction practices. One of the most impressive buildings launched the U.S. Regenerative Net-
Gottfried has worked on is the David work, which will bring together a small
B63CA5@33<Building Coun- Brower Center, where his offices and and select group of environmental lead-
cil grew out of his conviction that the the headquarters of many environmen- ers in the building industry to share
best way to create standards to encour- tal and nonprofit groups are located. best practices and introduce them to
age sustainable buildings was to bring The building, named for a prominent high-profi le customers looking for sus-
together environmental groups, archi- American environmentalist, generates tainable products and services. The
tects and building materials manufac- electricity with photovoltaic cells, col- goal is to spread environmentally sen-
turers in a nonprofit coalition. It began lects and reuses rainwater, and controls sitive products throughout the market
in 1993 with a meeting of 60 fi rms lighting to use natural daylight when and help its members deepen their sus-
and has grown to more than 18,000 possible. It is expected to earn LEED tainability performance.
member organizations. Perhaps its Platinum, the highest possible rating. Proving the business case for true
most significant accomplishment is the Although Gottfried began his con- sustainability has become Gottfried’s
voluntary Leadership in Energy and sulting business in 1994 with a focus on mission in life. “I believe the billion-
Environmental Design (LEED) build- green building, he later branched out to aires of the future are going to be deep
ing rating system, which set stand- look at green strategies for every aspect green,” he says, “and I’m going to work
ards for construction and design. In of running a business. More recently, my darnedest to create that deep green
2002, Gottfried also founded the he established Regenerative Ventures, a economy.”
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record. The old record, incidentally, processes and maintenance?
was held by a Mexican paper com- “For PM2 in Neuss? Short-term,
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