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Blue sky thinking in business

While at the recent Economist Innovation Awards, I was struck by something John Hanke, head of Google’s startup labs, had mentioned.

Talking with reference to Google’s self-driving car technology, and more generally on developing new operating models to allow companies to innovate, Mr Hanke said: “If a company want to make a large impact on humanity, you’re going to have to look beyond incremental improvements to your existing products and markets.”

I wondered to what extent SMEs can afford such blue sky thinking, and whether this was really the reserve of the giants?

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .