Guglielmo Marconi Lecture
On innovation and innovative practices in society and business
Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a practical radiotelegraph system, which evolved into what many would today know as radio. Most of the technical ingredients of the wireless telegraph were known at the time; Marconi’s genius was to combine existing technology in a unique and innovative way. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun.
The Guglielmo Marconi Lecture focuses on innovation and creativity.
2009
Hal Varian, chief economist of Google and professor at University of California at Berkeley
"The Economics of Combinatorial Innovation"
Watch the Lecture in its entirety on YouTube
2008
Charlie Leadbeater, author of We-Think: Mass Collaboration, Not Mass Production
"Europe in the Age of Collaborative Innovation and Mass Creativity"
Watch Charlie's Lecture on EUX.tv
Watch a YouTube summary of We-Think
2007
Don Tapscott, author, Wikinomics; CEO, New Paradigm
“Wikinomics, Innovation and the Entrepreneur”
Download Don Tapscott's presentation slides here
2006
William W. Lewis, founding director, McKinsey Global Institute
“Putting Consumers First”
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2005
Günter Verheugen, vice-president, European Commission in charge of enterprise and industry
“Promoting, Creating and Encouraging Real Innovation”
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