Innovation is designing a better future :: Tommaso Buganza

What is Innovation?

Our special guest, Tommaso Buganza, Professor of Leadership & Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, discusses the realm of science fiction and its practical implications on society. Jared and Tommaso also explore ethics, user responsibility, and education's role in nurturing holistic innovators. Tommaso's insights on AI's transformative power and the importance of a critical mindset offer a compass for budding innovators.

More about our guest:

Tommaso Buganza is Professor of Leadership & Innovation at Politecnico di Milano. His research activities are at the crossroad of Technology, Innovation, and Leadership. Platforms are the missing link among them; he teaches Platform Thinking to executives and consults international companies in search for a Platform-based transformations. He is also the Co-founder and Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Leadership, Design and Innovation of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. The Lab leverages 30+ internal and external resources for research, teaching and services to companies. Additionally, he is the Co-Founder of Symplatform: a symposium on digital platforms. A new conference aimed at researchers and practitioners in the world of platforms, and the Chairman of the Board of the Innovation and Product Development Management Conference organized by EIASM (European for Advanced Studies in Management). Lastly, he is the Co-founder and Scientific Director of IDeaLs, the research Platform for Innovation and Design as Leadership of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.
Know more about him, the univesrity, and his book here:

• Tommaso Buganza
• Politecnico di Milano
• Laboratory for Leadership, Design and Innovation of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano
• Symplatform
• IDeaLs
• Book: Platform Thinking: Read the past. Write the future.

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Episode Guide:

1:04 - What is Innovation?

3:03 - Forecasting vs Designing

4:04 - Star Trek: Fiction vs Reality

7:16 - Responsibility in the innovation space

11:53 - Artificial intelligence and technological substitution

15:12 - Regulation in Europe and user responsibility

18:44 - Education structure: humanistic responsibility

20:11 - Importance of critical mindset

22:50 - Advice for innovators
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