How small companies lead innovation
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The document discusses how small players are reshaping industries in the 21st century through innovation and the internet. It highlights examples such as William Kamkwamba's windmill project in Malawi, peer-to-peer lending with Zopa, and the impact of startups on electric vehicles and biopharmaceuticals. The text emphasizes the importance of open source, co-innovation, and the shift towards individual and community-driven entrepreneurship.
How small companies lead innovation
- 1. How small players may change the law of gravity of any industry in the 21st Century A presentation by
- 2. 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
- 4. Nowadays, information is available from any places Bamako Mali They learned diode connectivity thanks to a surf on the web
- 5. People and startups lead innovation
- 6. Open Source: a community of individuals
- 7. 20% market share in several IT markets
- 8. Co-innovation : now the norm in the IT industry
- 9. A sole man can shake a decades old business
- 10. Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair Ryanair could skip travel agents thanks to the web
- 12. eBank Corporation (Japan) : 3 millions bank accounts ... only 250 staff members Part of the Rakuten Group since 2008
- 13. Zopa : Peer 2 Peer lending 400.000 members
- 14. Startups pave the way of the Electric Vehicle
- 15. Think (Norway)
- 17. Edag Prototype (Germany)
- 18. In may 2010, Toyota stroke a strategic deal with the Californian company Tesla to produce an EV Sedan
- 19. Open Source Car (USA)
- 20. Utilities companies rely on smaller, nimbler players to boost their own innovation processes
- 21. More and more individual electricity producers
- 22. In 2009, Exxon Mobil bought Synthetic Genomics in order to produce biofuels made out of algaes
- 23. In the health sector, innovation is transfered to clinical startups and smaller biotech company
- 24. “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)
- 25. Investments in the biotech industry amounted 55,8 billions dollars US in 2009 (+85% year on year)
- 26. Biocamp Novartis sponsors a annual program inspired from the IT industry, to boost entrepreneurship within the community of PhD’s in Life Sciences
- 27. We all are the medias...
- 28. 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
- 29. The economy of the long tail is a reality...
- 30. Chris Anderson
- 31. Never be a better time to become an entrepreneur !
- 32. Seminars Conferences Web TV Production contact: [email protected]