Innovation is a window into the uncertain future :: Carolina Duque Chopitea

What is Innovation?

Carolina Duque Chopitea, Director of Technology and Product at Reciqlo, a Circular Economy company that builds solutions for glass recycling, and Co-founder of Brandformers, a digital marketing and consultancy company that helps brands with their digital transition, discusses why it's important to see innovation as a way of looking at the future, and they unpack the ingredients of innovation that go beyond technology.

More about our guest:

Carolina Duque Chopitea holds a master’s degree in Business Analytics from Hult International Business School (San Francisco) and has recently co-authored “Tomorrow's people and new technology” , a book that explores how the emerging technologies that power the Fourth Industrial Revolution are changing our lives. With her multidisciplinary background and experience working in technology Carolina helps brands and organizations to build technological and innovative solutions that contribute towards the sustainable development of our plant.

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Episode Guide:

1:20 - What is Innovation

1:59 - Blockchain

2:44 - Book: Tomorrow's people and new technology

6:22 - Big data: shaping it and getting shaped by it

9:08 - Practical Innovation and value

11:56 - Innovation from non-economic projects

12:36 - What isn't innovation?

14:59 - Not something from scratch or zero

17:37 - Innovation Skill: Learning and Promoting

21:32 - Innovation: Shaping Careers

23:45 - Advice to innovators

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Resources Mentioned:

Books / Articles:

• Book: Tomorrow's people and new technology

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