This book, the first published by The Owls Foundation, tells you how brilliant ideas and inventions can be transformed into innovations and breakthroughs that make a real impact, and analyses why others fail.

Breakthrough: From Innovation to Impact - Ab Klink, Ahmed Sheikh, Ahmed Qurei, Alan McKinnon, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Arne Solli, Colum Gorman, Denis A. Cortese, Dirk Barth, Francis Deng, François Chabannes, Frits Bolkestein, Gemma Kobessen, Gert Rosenthal, Gert van Dijk, Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Hans Hillen, Hassan Rachidi, Henk Polinder, Herman Schaper, Horst Teltschik, Jacques Lanxade, James Blaker, Jeroen van der Veer, John Groffen, John H. Noseworthy, Klaus Naumann, Mariëlle Dekker, Martha Bejar, Martijn Dadema, Mohamed Krichen, Mostefa Souag, Natalie Landman, Nicholas Larusso, Nigel Inkster, Nils Wang, Paul Baan, Paulo F. Ribeiro, Peter Inge, Pieter de Rijcke, Roel Kuiper, Shelly Plutowski, Shimon Peres, Shirley Weis, Simon Adams, Sverre Diesen, Theo Bosters, Uri Savir, William A. Owens, William Pace, Wim Post - Google Livres

In the global world of today there is great interdependency. No country, no institution, no company can do it alone.

And we cannot ignore the international context. On top of that, no innovation comes on its own.

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The active engagement and quality of the leading figures who are interviewed is one of the distinguishing features of this project. These remarkable individuals were generous with their time and thought hard to reflect on their experiences. In these studies and interviews, leaders, entrepreneurs and scholars in The Owls Foundation's network describe and analyse innovations in business, philanthropy, diplomacy, economics, investing, geopolitics, media, agriculture, logistics, technology and healthcare.

He is a retired General and former Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, who carried out a far-reaching modernisation and professionalisation of the Dutch armed forces after the fall of the Berlin wall. He organised and co-authored Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World No country, no institution, no company From Innovation to Impact.

Ab Klink , Ahmed Sheikh , Ahmed Qurei , Alan McKinnon , Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Arne Solli , Colum Gorman , Denis A. Ribeiro , Peter Inge , Pieter de Rijcke , Roel Kuiper , Shelly Plutowski , Shimon Peres , Shirley Weis , Simon Adams , Sverre Diesen , Theo Bosters , Uri Savir , William A.

Owens , William Pace , Wim Post. The Owls Foundation , 22 avr.

The Silent Revolution in Agriculture. Postscript on the Future of Energy. The Rapid Unification of Germany. The Al Jazeera Breakthrough. Reinventing a Healthcare Icon. Healthcare Innovation in Practice.

Impact Investing and Social Renewal.

Islam and the Netherlands Innovative Approaches in the. From Innovation to Impact Ab Klink , Ahmed Sheikh , Ahmed Qurei , Alan McKinnon , Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Arne Solli , Colum Gorman , Denis A. Owens , William Pace , Wim Post The Owls Foundation , 22 avr. Innovations in Global Logistics.

Henk van den Breemen , Douglas Murray , Benjamin Bilski , Maarten Verkerk.