Innovation
Global Investor Focus, 02/2007 Credit Suisse
Global Investor Focus, 02/2007
Credit Suisse
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Language<br />
Know-how<br />
Distribution<br />
International<br />
standards<br />
Financial<br />
systems<br />
Sales<br />
markets<br />
Trade<br />
barriers<br />
Quality<br />
assurance<br />
Production<br />
Efficiency<br />
Automation<br />
Logistics<br />
Worldwide<br />
market<br />
Local/<br />
global<br />
Communication<br />
Flow of<br />
goods<br />
Money<br />
flows<br />
Global<br />
markets<br />
ISO<br />
container<br />
Organization<br />
Infrastructure<br />
Outsourcing<br />
Speed<br />
International<br />
division of<br />
labor<br />
New<br />
contacts<br />
Storage<br />
<strong>Innovation</strong><br />
Energy<br />
costs<br />
Alternative<br />
energy<br />
sources<br />
Market<br />
niches<br />
Networking<br />
Loading<br />
point<br />
Distance<br />
Mode of<br />
transport<br />
(Falling)<br />
communication<br />
costs<br />
Resources<br />
Individualization<br />
Information<br />
Knowledge<br />
Artificial<br />
intelligence<br />
Flexible<br />
work<br />
models<br />
Access<br />
Migration<br />
The virtual<br />
society<br />
www<br />
Process<br />
optimization<br />
Independent<br />
of time<br />
Qualification<br />
Flexibility<br />
Wage costs<br />
Digitalization<br />
Data<br />
exchange<br />
Security<br />
Independent<br />
of place<br />
Mobility<br />
The microchip<br />
Jack Kilby, American<br />
engineer and recipient<br />
of the Nobel Prize<br />
for Physics, submitted<br />
a patent for the first<br />
integrated circuit on<br />
6 February 1959 —<br />
and so the microchip<br />
was born.<br />
The Internet<br />
In 1989, British computer<br />
scientist Tim Berners-Lee,<br />
who worked at the CERN<br />
nuclear research organization<br />
in Geneva, proposed a project<br />
to his employer based on<br />
hypertext (HTML), simplifying<br />
the global exchange of information<br />
among scientists.<br />
The World Wide Web emerged.<br />
Decoding the<br />
human genome<br />
In April 2003, the international<br />
Human Genome Project<br />
(HGP) announced that it<br />
had succeeded in decoding<br />
99% of the complete DNA<br />
inheritance, or genome,<br />
of human beings. The project<br />
had kicked off in 1990 in the<br />
USA, Germany, the UK,<br />
France, Japan and China.<br />
1960<br />
Computer mouse<br />
First solar cell<br />
Nuclear power plant<br />
1970<br />
Floppy disc<br />
Chip card<br />
1980<br />
CD<br />
Wind farm<br />
Video game<br />
MP3<br />
Solar energy<br />
1990<br />
2000<br />
Cloning of animals<br />
Programmable materials<br />
Mobile telephone<br />
2007<br />
2010