The entrepreneurial revolution has lowered the threshold to innovative market entrants to where we can't envision the economic future, much less predict it.
Given the innovation opportunities in the PPI, managers and policy makers should not be satisfied with their achievements; rather, they should be alert to innovative new entrants and explore novel technologically advanced paths.
As Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, Germany's newly appointed telecoms regulator, says: "The small companies put pressure on the big ones to be innovative".Other new entrants are big telephone companies from other countries, resigned to losing market share at home and eager to gain it abroad.
It is a highly innovative, but thoroughly nontraditional entrant into a growing field of battery-powered bikes.
You can learn more about the 2013 entrants and their innovative ideas in this video.
An innovative sandwich structure with auxetic re-entrant cell honeycomb cores was proposed in this paper, and the dynamic responses and blast resistance of the honeycomb sandwich structures under blast loading were investigated numerically by employing the LS-DYNA.
The 50 winners were selected from hundreds of entrants, reflecting an extraordinary range of innovative projects across the length of Britain.
