January issue editorial from James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
English mathematician and philosopher Sir Alfred North Whitehead has observed that “civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them”. And as the new year dawns for those on the Gregorian calendar, it is worth looking at the trends shaping the industry.
While there are plenty of technology changes under way, the biggest shifts are the ones to business models, which then usually finds the technology to fit its paradigm rather than…