How small companies lead innovation

How small players may change the law of gravity of any industry in the 21st Century A presentation by

William Kamkwamba Malawi He has build a working windmill using recycled parts, learned to do it in a handbook, and became famous thanks to a blog

Internet empowers everyone

Nowadays, information is available from any places Bamako Mali They learned diode connectivity thanks to a surf on the web

People and startups lead innovation

Open Source: a community of individuals

20% market share in several IT markets

Co-innovation : now the norm in the IT industry

A sole man can shake a decades old business

Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair Ryanair could skip travel agents thanks to the web

Banking, now virtual...

eBank Corporation (Japan) : 3 millions bank accounts ... only 250 staff members Part of the Rakuten Group since 2008

Zopa : Peer 2 Peer lending 400.000 members

Startups pave the way of the Electric Vehicle

Think (Norway)

Imperia (Belgium)

Edag Prototype (Germany)

In may 2010, Toyota stroke a strategic deal with the Californian company Tesla to produce an EV Sedan

Open Source Car (USA)

Utilities companies rely on smaller, nimbler players to boost their own innovation processes

More and more individual electricity producers

In 2009, Exxon Mobil bought Synthetic Genomics in order to produce biofuels made out of algaes

In the health sector, innovation is transfered to clinical startups and smaller biotech company

“82% of surveyed executives believe big pharma will be unable to innovate sufﬁciently from within to replace blockbuster drugs going off-patent.” (survey by Marks & Clerck)

Investments in the biotech industry amounted 55,8 billions dollars US in 2009 (+85% year on year)

Biocamp Novartis sponsors a annual program inspired from the IT industry, to boost entrepreneurship within the community of PhD’s in Life Sciences

We all are the medias...

News website Hufﬁngton Post ahead of all major US newspapers, but the NYT. Content mainly comes from lead bloggers French daily Le Monde gets 15% of its viewers in the web from its blog platform LePost.fr

The economy of the long tail is a reality...

Chris Anderson

Never be a better time to become an entrepreneur !

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How small companies lead innovation

by Jean-Yves Huwart on Jun 17, 2010

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