Silvio Meira (@srlm) is the chief scientist at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems. I met him in Brazil, where he gave me his definition of innovation.
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Brazil: In Recife, Innovation and Design for Job Creation – Francis Pisani
Located in the historic center of one of the America’s oldest cities, Porto Digital is a technology park that has made the northeastern city of Recife Brazil’s third IT hub, behind São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The park is the result of efforts of a group of computer-science professors who were tired of watching […]
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Chapitre 5 – « Scenius » ou le génie collectif – Francis Pisani
Matrices innovationnelles Ça n’est pas un hasard si les startups s’épanouissent dans des incubateurs. La métaphore de la naissance délicate, de la venue assistée au monde rend bien compte de la difficulté du processus, de la fragilité de ce qui en sort… dans le meilleur des cas. Mais tous les soins ne serviraient à rien […]
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Chapitre 4 – La tangente et la jungle – Francis Pisani
Une innovation indienne : l’excubateur Mahesh Murthy et Vishal Gondal sont des entrepreneurs indiens installés à Mumbai. Ils se connaissent mais ne travaillent pas ensemble. Sortis de l’université avant la fin de leurs études (dropouts comme Steve Jobs et Bill Gates) ils ont tous deux réussi en affaire en vendant bien leur première startup. Ils […]
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How Innovators Get Funded – Part One – Francis Pisani
Entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers are crucial for turning ideas into innovations. The same goes for investors, people prepared to invest in risky projects. Most start-ups would have a hard time launching without them, or at least reaching a point where they become relevant. The good news is that innovators are beginning to find investors, no […]
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Design thinking: How to innovate if you’re not an engineer – Francis Pisani
Tech innovation will always need engineers – and savvy geeks – entrepreneurs, and investors excited by risks and the opportunities that come with them. Everyone has their own recipe for success, so there really is no one true way to do things. It’s like brewing, the co-mingling of important elements. The mix is even richer, […]
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Indian Design – Francis Pisani
Beginning with Steve Jobs, design is an essential part of innovation. It is also plays one of innovation’s most important strategic roles. Silicon Valley relies on it to preserve its advantage over places that merely “manufacture.” The case of India can prove it right; more so, it seems, than Brazil would. Whether trained in Bangalore, […]
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Innovation: The Challenge of Time – Francis Pisani
Silicon Valley’s relationship with time is perhaps what separates it most from the rest of the world, from what I’ve seen so far in these trips. The entire system in California is based, for solid economic reasons, on the speed of conception, execution and exit strategy (M&A or IPO). Its built into the way apps […]
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JOURNAL – Off again – Francis Pisani
It’s that time again. I’m writing this in Recife, the first city I’m visiting during my first “real” world tour. By this I mean that, after Mexico, North Africa and part of the Middle East, this time I headed west out of Paris, and am coming back from the east. During which I’ll lose a […]
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Winch 5 – Francis Pisani
I’m launching this new blog from Mexico, the first step in a series of trips born from a desire to understand the state of innovation and social media in the five corners of the world. I’m convinced that the majority of life-changing technologies will come soon from places other than Silicon Valley. I lived in […]