Innovating Series Episode 8

Times of change are coming, or should they. We face a future where resources, their efficient use and management are going to be strategic elements. Before this scenario, we must ask ourselves whether traditional approaches to technological innovation based on growth are going to be sustainable.

Innovation must activate the basic research generated to stimulate the capacity to generate solutions with a tangible impact on society.

Inspired by Luis Pérez-Breva in a response to an RFI from the U.S. National Science Foundation, it is necessary for innovation processes to be sustainable. That is, we need to demploy the reuse and repurposing of technologies in all their versions, a circular process that encourages the transfer of knowledge to enabling environments for impact solutions.

We then can talk about circular, or sustainable innovations where the process of innovating has been truly combinatorial.