He is excited to see around 100 entrants from all over the world vying for the Automotive X Prize (a $10m scheme designed to reward the developers of clean, super-efficient cars), and counts nearly a dozen car firms working on radical designs today.Mr Lovins is convinced that the "intensity and diversity of innovation attempts today is much greater than in the 1980s".
Accordingly, the question if and to what degree today's companies are already implementing SBMs becomes more and more relevant, as well as how do firms connect the elements of a BM to their innovation attempts.
Even if things don't work out perfectly, a majority of customers will appreciate innovation attempts over no progression at all (unless you pull a Digg v4 and ruin everything in one fell swoop).
The Department of Justice ruling is particularly valuable for Redfin and ZipRealty, both online brokers whose past innovations and attempts to gain market share were stymied by the fear of losing access to the selective listings they were offered.
It was more of an innovation, an attempt to bring out something beautiful.
Further innovations were attempted, including a pipe organ and a mixed-sex choir, but these were removed after objections from Orthodox members.
Dr Laurence Carmichael, senior lecturer at the University of the West of England and head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, says the drive to improve urban living needs to address a wide range of different local factors – but cities, as "hubs of innovation", are attempting to rise to the challenge.
Recent topics include TV for dogs, life-changing innovations, and the attempt by New York City's mayor to ban enormous sugary drinks.
In fact, the one indisputable truth about business schools over the past 100 years has been that a few of the flakier ones are always adopting gimmicky innovations in an attempt to attract attention, innovations which they abandon after a few dismal years.
For Antiochus both characterizes Philo's innovations as an attempt to redefine 'cognition' (Ac. 2.17 & 2.18 fin).
