You Don’t Travel to the Future, You Create It
The Lloyd’s List website posted an address by Kirsi Tikka to a shipping industry audience on some of the innovation and sustainability challenges facing the shipping industry and how they might respond: “If we are truly to tackle the innovation challenges that confront us, the shipping industry needs to open itself up to much wider pool of ideas and be more open-minded to outside influences. I propose that we embrace ‘open innovation’ in our industry. More and more companies in other industries are doing just that. They are complementing their in-house research and development with open innovation efforts, which both share and draw ideas from multiple sources, such as start-ups, universities, research institutions, and customer pools.”
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