Urgent: The Future of Innovation
Lessons Learned.
Bill Gates has been talking earnestly over the past few months on the immediate and emerging lessons from Covid, especially regarding innovation.
The Covid shock has made the world realize how critical innovation is.
It has put the spotlight on three (interrelated) critical factors that will shape our future:
Scale => we need to increase the total innovation throughput
Speed => we need to come up with breakthrough solutions faster than before
Cost => we need to build solutions on the lowest end of the cost curve to make them available for the maximal number of people
These critical dimensions are not just about vaccine breakthroughs; they apply to many other global problems we face today and must solve in the very near future.
The Challenge.
Securing a decent future for people and societies worldwide depends crucially on our ability to solve a broad range of critical problems: from water and health to food, education, pollution, climate, mobility and livelihoods.
These problems are global in nature as they affect virtually every person on Earth, or large swaths of population.
The solutions we develop (or the absence of solutions) will shape our future in critical ways.
The stakes are as high as they can get.
The Future of Innovation.
How do we enable humanity to take big, bold leaps forward?
How do we create global pipelines of innovation around the world (that maximize our chance of reaching effective solutions)?
How do we make innovation likely to emerge from traditionally-unexpected places?
We’ve got to understand what innovation is all about.
Innovation is the possible outcome of the application of human ability to solving known problems.
This is why enabling the Future of Innovation requires innovation in how we discover and apply human ability to problems.
Concretely:
We need a new way to unlock the world’s hidden human potential, and make it discoverable and accessible at scale.
We need to get the most able people we can find anywhere to think, focus, and work on the most important problems.
What’s Next?
Inertia and inaction are the key reasons why countries failed to become Covid-ready.
Governments ignored stern warnings about a potential pandemic for over five years.
Now we all see where this led us.
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