Many – too many – companies and academic institutions have monochrome mindsets. They focus solely on black & white, here-and-now innovation goals. They rarely – if ever – support disruptive, off-piste thinking.
But Owen Thompson is breaking the rules that shackle disruptive innovation. As CEO of Cambridge Future Tech, he is working with top-tier UK companies (and universities) to develop promising deep technologies into world-class commercial ventures. Three weeks ago, he gave us an ‘Innovation Talk’ that took us inside his technicolour world. He showed us how overlooked and under-developed IP is transformed into breakthrough Horizon 3 solutions.