Innovation

Never was wealth the driver for me. – it was always hey, there's a cool idea here, let's make something of it. It was nice to be well rewarded, but the interesting part was working the problem, thinking about new things and how to bring them forward from being ideas to being products or new ways of doing things.

Former CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers

We're living in a world of increasing, exponentially growing computational power. Technology is always on, always available, and we're now moving into the quantum computing era – these exponential technologies are enabling artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology, augmented reality, blockchain and allowing these technologies to converge, creating new business models.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

What's the business hip hop of this post pandemic world? Who's going to be the Rapper's Delight of the post pandemic world?

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Necessity is the mother of invention, and so a lot of the time – you'll find that when your back is against the wall, that's when you'll come up with your best ideas. Right now, during this pandemic, some of the world's greatest businesses will be invented.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

You have to re-earn your customer's business every single day – it's not just about listening to them, but anticipating what they don't realise they need, and staying ahead of them.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

The area under the curve over time is greater if you keep your prices low than if you jack them up to maximise revenue. I'd get kicked out of a business school for saying something like that, but it's true.

Co-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer

You should try and copy everything you possibly can! It's just that if you run out of alternatives, if you run out of options to copy, you will realise that your entire life has conditioned you to not only be a great copier, but to hesitate when copying is no longer an option.

Co-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer

In 2008 there was one company which applied for more patents than all the others put together, this company was IBM.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

The discovery of an effective HIV vaccine is the nirvana for all our efforts to prevent AIDS.

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Asia region countries are able to shave not just 10% off process-costs versus their western counterparts, but often 60-80%, often bringing great improvements and advantages in the process. This ensures they are more agile and able to sustain competitive advantage through continual innovation.

Western societies have to heed the strategies of the east where innovation and progress are fundamental parts of their attitudes to business. Japanese carmakers built their sustainability from their constant ability to innovate rather than being cheaper.

We have been able to continue reactively where the pace of change has not outstripped our ability to react to it, but increasingly this is not the case and the pace of global change is pivotally now balanced with our ability to react, and soon will have a greater momentum than that.

It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world... it's going to be a game changer.

Co-Founder of Apple & Pioneer of Personal Computing

We can now, more accurately than ever before, view the transactions occurring within our system, identifying the originator(s), beneficiary(ies) and intermediaries along the chain.

We could partly predict where people will come from for future events.

When I entered the telecom scene in India, in the early nineteen eighties, we had two million telephones for seven hundred and fifty million people. It used to take fifteen years to get a telephone connection. In a very short space of time, just twenty five years, we have seven hundred and fifty million telephones.

Telecom Pioneer & Advisor to Indian Government on Technology Policy