Archive for June 2020

The Academia-Industry Interface

Posted on June 13, 2020, 6:45 am, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Challenges, Innovation.

Academia scales down problems to make them rigorously tractable for the methods being researched. Industry scales up the methods, often sacrificing rigor, to assure results are applicable to real problems. While these may seem like mutually exclusive strategies, that need not be the case. What are needed are intermediaries who understand both sides of the […]

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Betting on Change

Posted on June 1, 2020, 9:13 am, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Challenges, Change, Education, Innovation.

We expect that the pandemic will lead to a new normal that will be significantly different than the old normal.  Perhaps there will be opportunities for innovations in the marketplace.  What changes deserve our bets? We can assume that people will always want pasta, potatoes or rice, as well as beans, broccoli or mushrooms. But […]

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