Signals of Change

Innovation Ecologies SoC279

Organizations are creating innovation ecologiesᾹcomplex webs of a variety of parties and partners—to generate the innovations they need to compete. Companies that learn to build, map, and administer innovation ecologies stand to realize significant competitive advantage. But the process is trickier than it first appears to be.

Online Maps Going Real Time SoC280

Online map-based products are increasingly providing new solutions through their map interfaces by integrating near-real-time data such as data about traffic patterns. Map-based products are also using photographic representations of the real world to enhance utility, convenience, and ease of use.

Molecular Pharming SoC281

Advances in the field of molecular genetics are conferring on plants and animals the ability to produce a range of therapeutic proteins useful for human biomedical applications. The production of pharmaceuticals or specialty chemicals in genetically modified organisms—molecular pharming—raises a unique set of opportunities and issues.

Leveraging Photography on the Web SoC282

The gap between the world of the amateur photographer and the world of the professional is fading fast as the Internet provides a melting pot to establish an infrastructure of photos suitable for any and all applications. A vast repository of photos and pictures on the Web has become another enabling technology for any of a variety of purposes, including Web 2.0 applications.

Virtual Worlds Get Physical SoC283

The ability to convert virtual objects into three-dimensional computer-aided design files for downloading and printing in a physical, 3-D form is emerging as a real business opportunity thanks to the online gaming industry.

Consumer Personomics SoC284

Prices for genetic-testing services are reaching a point that makes genetic tests increasingly accessible to an increasing number of people. This increased accessibility appears set to launch a revolution in consumer applications in personal genomics or consumer personomics.

Insights

Scan™ Meeting Digest: 14 November 2007 Meeting D08-2564

This document is a digest of the Scan™ abstract clusters that participants in the 14 November 2007 Scan meeting identified. The digest includes a description of the Scan process for people who have never attended a Scan meeting, a list of the clusters that meeting participants identified, and a one-page description of each cluster's premise and supporting abstracts. The document has active links that allow the reader to access the supporting abstracts for each cluster in Scan's online abstract database. The document also has links to previously published Scan documents relating to the particular cluster. Clusters of abstracts for this November meeting include photo applications on the move, aging and life extension, mirror worlds happening fast, nuclear revival, genetic services, pervasive health care, green second-order effects, lifelong lifestyle management, innovation life-cycle management, technologies for the aging society, context-aware biometrics, green communities, viral energy, dispersed financing, bio simulation, and motion technologies. Compiler: Martin Schwirn. 42 pages.

Scan™ Meeting Digest: 19 December 2007 Meeting D08-2565

This document is a digest of the Scan™ abstract clusters that participants in the 19 December 2007 Scan meeting identified. The digest includes a description of the Scan process for people who have never attended a Scan meeting, a list of the clusters that meeting participants identified, and a one-page description of each cluster's premise and supporting abstracts. The document has active links that allow the reader to access the supporting abstracts for each cluster in Scan's online abstract database. The document also has links to previously published Scan documents relating to the particular cluster. Clusters of abstracts for this December meeting include the search for new ad models, nor any drop to drink, the dark side of trust, a small side of green, innovation ecosystems, natural cures, next-gen modeling and simulations, the new gatekeepers, experience science, modern human evolution, category catalyst, Black Swans on the horizon, and adaptive cognition. Compiler: Thomas M. McKenna. 35 pages.

Calendar

Scan™ Abstract Meetings

Scan abstract meetings (in which SRIC-BI [now SBI] staff participate in a free-form discussion of current Scan abstracts) are open for client observation/participation on:

• 19 March 2008 at 9:00 am
• 21 May 2008 at 9:00 am
• 23 July 2008 at 9:00 am
• 17 September 2008 at 9:00 am
• 22 October 2008 at 9:00 am
• 21 January 2009 at 9:00 am.

Please contact your SRIC-BI (now SBI) marketing representative to schedule participation in any of the Scan Abstract Meetings.