Poland deserve some commend due to the fact that the country has decreased their CO2-emissions by 30 percent since 1990, during the same period Spain has increased their CO2-emissions by 50 percent…

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki

First of all I was really impressed over the innovation center. A whole building focusing only on innovation for the company. A lot of companies would benefit from such a dedicated investment in the future.

10000 visitors per year makes it not only an important contribution to the future products from the company, the marketing purpose might be even more valuable, showing the world that this company really is working hard to find the solutions for tomorrow.

DHL encourage their over 500000 employees to continously work with innovation, which make it natural that one of the Award-categories are dedicated to the most innovative employee-idea. The other categories covers customers, junior scientists and entrepreneurs.

DHL has really overcomed the “Red Queen-effect” written about earlier in this blogg. It´s seems like DHL has come to the insight that in order to find the best solutions they need to focus on their core business and strive for open innovation-encouraging and collaborating with their suppliers and customers in search for not only the best solutions for the company and it´s customers but also the environment.

Many thanks to Gülderen Tuna, Schabnam Djahanbakhsh and the rest of the team at the innovation center for organisating such a great event!

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki

He assesses the risk of 4 big mega threats of today: The pollution of the environment, the climate change, the political violence, and the world poverty.

The risks associated with these threats are much higher than the risk we normally accept within for example transportation by car or aeroplane.

If we manage to keep the global warming to the 2 degrees set by UN there is still a quite high risk for the shocking scenario, with a temperature increase without control.

It´s time to act. Since it seems to be hard to reach a world agreement, my recommendation is that companies, organisations and individuals shall take the opportunity and lead by good example to fight the global warming.

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki

A Chinese GDB growth of 8.9% Q3 2009, no crisis there….By 2020 China will invest 2.5% of their GDP in R&D in order to become an innovation-oriented society.

The problem in China according to Mr John Chiang from Peking University is a lack of entrepreneurship. The byrocrats decide the winners, but ususally those companies turn out to be tomorrows loosers.

Mr Magnus Breidne from Growth Analysis highlighted the unique Chinese model of state control and private sector, which make it impossible to forecast the success of the Chinese innovation strategy. The big challenge is that the innovations are producer-driven instead of  consumer-driven. Another interesting fact is that the start-ups is driven by returnees to China and MNC’s.

Personally I think that a good innovation atmosphere is hard to combine with a a socialist society and that it will be one of China´s most important challenges in the future.

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki

Dagens Nyheter writes about this in todays editorial. They also write that the temperature has not increased during the last decade. A question to all the readers out there, is it true?

In the climate debate it´s almost taboo to question the temperature increase, it´s not a very healthy situation. We need to discuss temperature increases more openly and longer back in the history. How large proportion is explained by natural variations and how much is caused by the humans.

Whatever the reason is, companies of today have to adapt to the new market. A market with customers concerned of the environment.

Companies adapting to sustainability in every part of their value chain will experience lower costs and higher revenues. In the long term they will win the battle over their less sustainable competitors.

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki

Since we are trying to be a sustainable company I´ve done most of the interviews over Skype using their video feature, really impressed I must say, saving a lot of time, money and emissions.

But to ensure a good quality of the 10 selected companies I also try to visit them in their own environment. Today I went to the company SiGarden http://si-garden.com/ in one of Poland´s most successful technology parks-Gdański Park Naukowo-Technologiczny.

My impression of SiGarden was really good. Their most interesting product right now is a low-power and light-weight minicomputer. The main reason for regarding them as a sustainable company is that  the PC-prototype only takes 5% of regular PC-power, saving a lot of electricity. The battery in the small computer can last up to 8 hours, impressive!

It was also interesting to see open innovation when it really works. The 15 employees in Poland works in close cooperation with Intel, getting access to Intel’s product development.

Many thanks to Jasek, Tomasz and the rest of the staff for an interesting day!

SiGarden will be one of the companies in the competition and you will meet 9 more during our forum the 28th.

The format will be the same as in Stockholm in June with 60-second presentations:

Kind regards,

Gustav Gorecki