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The Innovation Show

A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

EP 155: Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries with Safi Bahcall

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What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? What can we learn about human nature and world history from a glass of water?

In Loonshots, our guest reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behaviour that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.

Drawing on the science of phase transitions, our guest tells us why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.

Using examples that range from the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, our guest shows how this new kind of science helps us understand the behavior of companies and the fate of empires. 

Loonshots distils these insights into lessons for creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries everywhere.

We welcome scientist, entrepreneur and author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall

We talk:

  • What is a Loonshot?
  • How structure is as important as culture
  • Phase transitions 
  • How Innovation saves Empires
  • Why Innovation gets rejected
  • The rejection of radar before the War
  • The rejection of lifesaving drugs
  • The three deaths (fails)
  • Listening to the Suck with Curiosity
  • Understanding Failure
  • Avoiding the Moses Trap
  • Loving Soldiers and Artists
  • Managing the tension of the emergent and the established
  • How Steve Jobs learned to love Artists and Soldiers
  • The genius of Richard Miller, Judah Folkman, Vannevar Bush, Theodore Vail, Sir James Black, Akira Endo, Deak Parsons, Leo Young, Lawrence Hyland and Steve Jobs.

More about Safi here:

www.loonshots.com

www.bahcall.com

More shows like this here:

EP 118 – Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age with Greg Satell
EP 150: Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change with Greg Satell
EP 125: The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time with Allen Gannett
EP 115: The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth with Ralph Welborn, PhD
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EP 70: Blockchain “The Planetary Brain” with Vince Meens

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Vince tells us how Blockchain will act like a canvas to connect the World, like a giant brain. We discuss the many benefits of a connected World built on this new technology. Vince gives us a plethora of fantastic examples where we will see Blockchain realise its potential.

We discuss the blockers to adoption, some possible routes of how to begin.

We discuss accountability, transparency and trust and how the World of business will dramatically change.

Fascinating listen, worth the time investment.

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EP 48: From Stonewashed Jeans to Lifesaving Genes

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On this week’s innovation show we talk to Mark Emalfarb the founder and CEO of Dyadic International, Inc. a public company that trades on the OTCQX Markets under the stock symbol “DYAI”. This is a phenomenal story and a truly remarkable 4 decade entrepreneurial journey. Mark was told he had rocks in his head when he helped pioneer the concept of using rocks (pumice stones) in a washing machine, the process of stonewashed jeans.

When Mark looked to innovate and move to enzyme-based stonewashing, he hired a team of Russian bioengineers and biotechnology experts to develop an enzyme that could soften and fade denim using a biotechnology process that was more environmentally friendly, thus making denim more comfortable and fashionable.

Through this work he discovered a Russian fungus that he nicknamed C1 which Dyadic scientists hyper accelerated C1’s ability to make large amounts of low cost enzymes Dyadic sold to the blue jeans manufactures like Levi, Guess, Wrangler and others for use in the stonewash process.  In December of 2015 Dyadic’s industrial biotech company was acquired by DuPont for $75 million and this has allowed Dyadic to focus on what Mark describes in his interview as the final frontier.

Ever the pioneer, Mark and Dyadic are now focussed on pursuing research and development collaborations, licensing arrangements and other commercial opportunities with its partners and collaborators to leverage the value and benefits of the C1 technology to help in developing and manufacturing biopharmaceuticals.  In particular, as the aging population grows in developed and undeveloped countries, Dyadic believes the C1 technology may help bring biologic drugs to market faster, in greater volumes, at lower cost, and with new properties to drug developers and manufacturers and, hopefully, improve access and cost to patients and the healthcare system, but most importantly save lives.

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EP 44: Blank and Sex Positive

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Kim Parnell is the co-founder and Chief Evangelist of Blank – a ground-breaking technology that builds apps automatically without code, thus making app development available to everyone. She’s a social media influencer, a professional speaker, a fitness enthusiast and a startup veteran with a successful exit under her belt. Her passion for Blank comes from her frustration in finding a technical partner during the early phases of her first software startup. Alongside the team at Blank, she’s working to level the playing field so that anyone with an idea and the ambition to make it happen has the tools they need to do so.

We chat with Nico Bouchard, CEO and Founder of Sex Positive Diagnostics of Macrofluidics Ltd. His biotech product is an at-home self diagnosis kit for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Nico tells us about his experience in becoming a biotech founder from his previous profession as a teacher. He also shares with us the benefits of being part of the Rebel Bio accelerator in Cork, Ireland.

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EP 39: BioTech, Grow your own Milk, DNA storage, Cannabis for Health

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We speak to Bill Liao, Co-Founder of CoderDojo and General Partner of SOSV. He tells us of his journey in entrpreneurship and his latest focus on the RebelBio Biotech lab in Cork. We talk CoderDojo, Leadership, Education, BioTech, Ai, Singularity and much more.

Nils Rehmann is CEO and Founder of Canuevo, a Cannabinoid Pharma approach to healthcare. Nils team has a unique approach to accessing Cannabis for health for Epilepsy, Insomnia and Pain relief.

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