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Catch Unqork featured in the #1 New Book Release on Amazon, Proximity! 🥇📖 Authored by Robert C. Wolcott & Kaihan Krippendorff, Proximity shares stories of the people and companies leading the way. The book places rapidly advancing technologies―from generative AI and 3D printing to lab-grown meats, renewable energy, and virtual reality―in context and explores the factors accelerating the transformation. Read all about Unqork being a leader in the #ProximityRevolution: https://lnkd.in/gzsqGATj 

Exploring the concept of Proximity has been fascinating - and Prof. Wolcott's recent talk on how the Proximity revolution will transform every industry ...exceeded my expectations. Digital technologies — from AI and mobile apps to 3D printing, robotics, and process automation — enable us to distribute products, services, experiences - in smaller packages, closer to the moment of demand. What if you could have whatever you want, produced and provided immediately and affordably no matter how customized―with minimal environmental impact?

Many companies looking for breakthroughs struggle to move beyond incremental ideas, because cognitive biases trap people in the status quo and prevent them from seeing big opportunities. But 4 tactics can help firms overcome biases and think far more creatively. https://lnkd.in/dkcRcVDV #innovation #designthinking #creativity Virginie Galindo Frederic Leclercq Guillaume Lerouge Isabelle ARMAND-GUERINEAU Frederique Richert Cecile Eurendjian

Many companies looking for breakthroughs struggle to move beyond incremental ideas, because cognitive biases trap people in the status quo and prevent them from seeing big opportunities. https://lnkd.in/fxBTDpK #ideas #breakthrough #creativity #innovation #transformation #solutions

Decades of globalization have left U.S. industry dependent on foreign supply chains — and at risk of falling behind China and other countries. The way back is to out-innovate the rest of the world, movement leaders say. At a sold-out "Reindustrialize Summit" last week in Detroit, organizers unveiled the New American Industrial Alliance. The trade group plans to advocate for bipartisan, growth-oriented industrial policies and investment in advanced manufacturing. The goal is to ensure growth in the U.S. industrial sector, boosting economic prosperity and domestic productivity. The inaugural summit, held at a Detroit tech hub called Newlab, attracted 700 people from manufacturing, finance, military and government sectors across the U.S. Participants included companies like Califorinia-based Divergent 3D, whose patented technology harnesses generative AI, 3D printing and automation to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of manufacturing. It already has contracts to produce specialty products for six aerospace companies and seven automakers, including Bugatti, Aston Martin and Mercedes-AMG. "If there ever was a Manhattan Project for manufacturing, this is it," Divergent founder and CEO Kevin Czinger tells Axios of the new alliance. The Reindustrialize Summit was the brainchild of a handful of young ideologues, including Aaron Slodov, co-founder and CEO of Atomic Industries, a Toyota-backed startup using software to reimagine the moribund U.S. tool & die industry. Slodov says we're facing an "existential moment" for American manufacturing. "There's tons of innovation going on right now between AI and robotics, materials and software," he tells Axios. "A lot of people are looking for places to park money and invest in this space." Geopolitical and national security concerns are also motivators as China's prominence grows. Globalization didn't work, these leaders say, because the U.S. wound up giving away working class jobs — and its industrial advantage. "The fact that we can't make anything here has screwed our ability to stay leaders in the battery industry," for example, says Austin Bishop, co-founder of Atomic Industries and now a general partner at Tamarack Global, an early-stage investment firm. "Once we lost the ability to make basic batteries, then we missed the entire revolution with cellphones, and leading the lithium ion generation, and then that means we've now missed the opportunity to be the leader in [electric] cars."

This is such an insightful case study on a large business missing out on the benefits of innovation through a failure to turn ideas into viable business models. Lots to take out from this.

In the relentless march of progress, bridging the gap between impossible and done echoes across industries, challenging the very notion of limits. But what if we could reshape that narrative? Innovation isn't just about technology - it's a mindset, It's about viewing obstacles as puzzles, not roadblocks. That audacious concept you've shelved as "too far-fetched"? It's time to dust it off and watch it take shape. So Here's our dare to dreamers and doers!  That idea that's been burning in your mind, the one you've been told is "impossible"? Bring it to us. Watch as it transforms from neurons firing to atoms aligning. Dark Matter Industries (DMI), not just embraces change - we're creating it! https://www.dmi3d.in/ #BridgingTheGap #ImpossibleToDone #MindsetMatters #CreateTheFuture

Searching for radical innovation? A product, service, or process that dramatically transforms an existing market by introducing a groundbreaking concept or technology is called #DiscontinuousInnovation. This often leads to the creation of entirely new markets and fundamentally changes the way consumers engage with a product or service, marking a significant evolution in an industry. Read more about it: https://hubs.la/Q02-Ygm40

  Innovation has generally had an impact on human productivity. From the invention of the wheel to the modern transformation, innovation has assisted individuals in working more productively. Today, we are amidst another technological insurgency, and organizations are searching for ways of utilizing innovation to improve productivity and quality.  There #Technology

  Innovation has generally had an impact on human productivity. From the invention of the wheel to the modern transformation, innovation has assisted individuals in working more productively. Today, we are amidst another technological insurgency, and organizations are searching for ways of utilizing innovation to improve productivity and quality.  There #Technology