Live from #FEIEMEA: The Future Trends & Innovation Excellence Summits in Citations

If I talk about R&D, I think of commercial R&D. This means developing something to match the market's needs and not necessarily to generate something completely new

Ian Noble, Senior R&D Director of PepsiCo

Christopher Tauger, B. Braun Melsungen AG

Together with Strategyn we optimized our IV catheter based on a "Job" based thinking. So we do not optimized a IV catheter anymore but a device to get medication into the peripheral venous system

Jorge Fernandes, DSM Innovation Center

We are maybe the biggest unknown company in the world

We want to do the Fosburys Flop of innovation

DSM is a truely sustainable company about people, the planet & profit

R&D turns money into innovation > The innovation team turns innovation into money

Jorge Fernandes, DSM Innovation Center

Prof. Dr. Soeren Salomon, Danish Technical University

The right way of innovation is mirrored by citations of the movies The Godfather, like

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"

"Think like people around you, then anything is possible"

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

David Percival, PwC, FEI Advisory Board Member

Ideas bubble from the ground of your company heading to the surface (the market), but without innovation management only few of them will reach it.

Rowan Gibson, Author, Innovation to the Core

Making innovation work is the single most important business challenge of our era

Rowan Gibson, Author, Innovation to the Core