Testing group capabilities with human test to scale

Who is better at complex tasks? Ants or humans? Individual humans, of course, outperform ants in their cognitive abilities. But when we are in the group, ants win. Why? Ants have limited options, with cooperation being their sole strategy. In the end, they are all one big family. But humans become short-term-focused, selfish species, primarily when they can't communicate. And, then, lose... 🤷♂️ For more details, read this fascinating article - https://lnkd.in/daNucc9v by Weizmann Institute of Science & Tabea Dreyer. Video by Florian Palatini ---------- Follow Michal Ukropec for more 3D, innovation, and Industry 4.0 trends

Scientists are taking inspiration from the workshop into the OR — developing a glue-gun-like tool to repair fractures and bone defects. Instead of traditional plates and screws, this approach uses a bioactive “bone glue” that can fill defects and potentially stimulate healing. What do you think — futuristic innovation or too early for prime time? https://lnkd.in/gyyc-At3

Delta Work/Delta Tools: Quantifying Work Against Innovation This article introduces the ΔWork/ΔTools framework, a way to measure how innovation reshapes labor. By comparing changes in effort with advances in tools, it reveals when technology reduces burdens, when it multiplies demands, and what that means for progress and society. https://lnkd.in/dj8HsU6y

The World Economic Forum just dropped their #Top10 EmergingTechnologies report for 2025, and it is a masterclass in strategic foresight. But beyond the list itself, I see a clear blueprint for the next wave of business model innovation. The technologies reveal powerful themes: - Integrated Systems: Structural Battery Composites and Osmotic Power aren't just material or energy breakthroughs—they're about fusing core functions to eliminate waste and create entirely new value chains. Think "massless" energy systems for EV manufacturing or water management as a power source. - Biological & Autonomous Intelligence: From Engineered Living Therapeutics that turn the human body into a production facility, to Autonomous Biochemical Sensing that creates predictive health networks—we are moving from reactive to proactive, self-optimizing systems. This fundamentally changes how we approach healthcare, logistics, and more. - Trust & Resilience: The rise of Generative Watermarking and Collaborative Sensing shows that as our digital and physical worlds merge, the business models of the future. Scaling these technologies won't happen in a vacuum. It demands unprecedented collaboration across materials science, AI, and regulatory bodies. Which of these emerging technologies do you believe will have the most disruptive impact on existing business models? Let's discuss in the comments. #Innovation #FutureofBusiness #WEF #EmergingTech #BusinessModelInnovation

https://lnkd.in/ekrv5FwD Proud to see PA Consulting featured in The Times, helping start-ups find their path to market. Whether it’s quantum technologies, solid-state cooling, or sustainable materials, innovation isn’t just about the science and tech. It’s about finding the right product-market fit to solve real problems, at scale.

https://lnkd.in/gF6XjVtf Proud to see PA featured in The Times for helping start-ups find their path to market. Whether it’s quantum technologies, solid-state cooling, or sustainable materials, innovation isn’t just about the science and tech. It’s about finding the right product-market fit to solve real problems, at scale.

🔊 Three voices, one topic: artificial intelligence. Whether smart sensor stations, flexible assistance systems, or customizable solutions - our speakers Dr. Katharina Pohl, Lutz Frick, and Amir Humanfar showed how digital technologies break down barriers and create new opportunities for greater independence. 💡 ➡️ Which innovation has the greatest potential for you? [Slider description: key takeaways from the talks of Dr. Katharina Pohl, Lutz Frick and Amir Humanfar.]

📬 The September Innovation Newsletter is here! This month we highlight groundbreaking research, new technologies moving toward commercialization, and stories of innovators across The Texas A&M University System. Take a look inside and see how bold ideas are turning into real-world impact. Read the full issue: https://lnkd.in/geqvzVrH Never miss a beat: https://lnkd.in/gjeBsEjA

Ever wondered what Technology Transfer means and what we as Innovation Managers do? Check out this video by our colleagues from the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH): https://lnkd.in/eHjhTNed

We often talk about new materials as if they travel through an innovation pipeline. The idea is comforting: breakthroughs go in at one end and emerge at the other as market-ready solutions. But pipelines deliver with certainty, and that is not what we see. What we experience instead is an innovation orbit. Most new materials do not collapse in the lab. Their failure happens in time. They rise into orbit but never arrive, too robust to disappear entirely yet too slow to break free into the systems where they are needed. The reasons are structural. Compliance cycles stretch for years. Factories hesitate to retool without clear guarantees. Price gaps remain locked without scale. Brand calendars move far faster than materials can align. Without additional velocity but with added drag, orbits decay and the object is pulled back. In textiles, as visibility grows without real acceleration, the gravitational pull of industry inertia only intensifies. This is why so many innovations fade after years of anticipation. They do not implode dramatically; they erode quietly in orbit, circulating in press releases and pilot runs while never penetrating the core of supply chains. The challenge, then, is not invention but velocity. How can we design strategies that give new materials the thrust they lack? One possible path is the 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹. Some of you may already be familiar with it: coupling material adoption to the operational savings generated by supply chain decarbonisation. In practice, it means tethering fragile innovations to the booster rockets of upgrades that are already delivering both momentum and cost relief. This approach does not make gravity disappear, but it supplies the acceleration that fragile materials lack. Decarbonisation becomes the booster stage that pushes them past the threshold where alignment and adoption become possible. In the end, the future of materials will not be decided by breakthroughs alone but by the systems built to receive them. Innovation survives when infrastructure, timing, and incentives align. Without that alignment, even the most promising discoveries risk becoming footnotes rather than foundations.