Economy

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many companies were instructed to make structural changes. This led to a new business model: B2B sharing. Navi Radjou, speaker at the GDI Trend Day, describes this new type of sharing economy in his report ‘The B2B Sharing Revolution’.

Frugal innovation is in fashion. Start-ups are popping up all over the world. It is not easy to keep track of them all. The ‘Frugal Innovation Map’ helps.

Many people have had experiences with toxic work environments. A group of researchers has investigated a programme to improve the work atmosphere – and has found positive results.

A new network analysis from the GDI shows that frugal innovation has so far been a blind spot in the innovation network. Today, innovation tends to be understood in the context of complex technical developments – namely, more is more. The fact that innovation can also mean simplicity, low-tech and ‘more from less’ does not yet seem to be present in most people’s minds.

According to behavioural economist John List, experimentation and scalability are the keys to a company's success. In the FehrAdvice and GDI webinar, List gives insights into his research and presents his recently published book "The Voltage Effect".

The Austrian graphic designer and typographer lives and works in New York. Sagmeister has created CD cover designs for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones and David Byrne, among others. In the pre-interview for the 18th European Trend Day, he talks to us about happiness, beauty and design.

John List is considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in Economics – and not without reason. With his field experiments, the behavioural economist often refutes common theoretical research results. In an exclusive webinar on 1 December, he will show how companies become successful.

Electric cars, home automation, civilian space travel: the innovations of the past few years have been aimed at improving our lives, but they consume enormous amounts of resources to do so. Frugal innovations are quite different. How? We explain in this video – and at the upcoming European Trend Day.

"We can't have infinite growth on a finite planet." With this statement, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel makes an urgent plea for system change in a video. At the GDI Trend Day on March 9 2022, he will describe alternatives to our current economic system.

It has been seven years since Navi Radjou, in an impressive Ted Talk, presented Frugal Innovation as a solution to many of our problems. The author of "Frugal Innovation: How To Do Better With Less" coined the term and has popularised it worldwide. Now that we are in the middle of a climate crisis and a pandemic, his ideas are more relevant than ever, as he will demonstrate at the 18th European Trend Day on 9 March 2022.