Stimulating Innovation to Create More Sustainable Cities
by The Daily Eye Team November 13 2014, 5:21 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 54 secsIt won’t be long before the world’s population reaches nine billion and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. All around the globe, population explosions are putting city infrastructure under severe strain. And at the same time climate change is posing serious challenges.
How will we cope? Can our cities accommodate so many people?
Yes it can, but we have to do things differently. We have to use our ambition and imagination to more efficiently manage the world’s limited resources.
Ultimately, the future health of our cities – and the people who live there – will hinge on our ability to do radically more with less. We need more innovation, less traditional solutions, more collaboration and less introverted thinking.
The widespread idea that innovation is driven by a lonely genius, a specific department, or a special group of champion innovators is not the case. Instead, success hinges on organizing and driving innovation through a team effort and a strong sense of a shared mission.