Breakthrough: From Innovation to Impact, Volume 1

Ab Klink · Ahmed Sheikh · Ahmed Qurei · Alan McKinnon · Amnon Lipkin-Shahak · Arne Solli · Colum Gorman · Denis A. Cortese · Dirk Barth · Francis Deng · François Chabannes · Frits Bolkestein · Gemma Kobessen · Gert Rosenthal · Gert van Dijk · Haakon Bruun-Hanssen · Hans Hillen · Hassan Rachidi · Henk Polinder · Herman Schaper · Horst Teltschik · Jacques Lanxade · James Blaker · Jeroen van der Veer · John Groffen · John H. Noseworthy · Klaus Naumann · Mariëlle Dekker · Martha Bejar · Martijn Dadema · Mohamed Krichen · Mostefa Souag · Natalie Landman · Nicholas Larusso · Nigel Inkster · Nils Wang · Paul Baan · Paulo F. Ribeiro · Peter Inge · Pieter de Rijcke · Roel Kuiper · Shelly Plutowski · Shimon Peres · Shirley Weis · Simon Adams · Sverre Diesen · Theo Bosters · Uri Savir · William A. Owens · William Pace · Wim Post

Apr 2015 · The Owls Foundation

About this ebook

This book, the first published by The Owls Foundation, tells you how brilliant ideas and inventions can be transformed into innovations and breakthroughs that make a real impact, and analyses why others fail.

In the global world of today there is great interdependency. No country, no institution, no company can do it alone. And we cannot ignore the international context. On top of that, no innovation comes on its own.

The active engagement and quality of the leading figures who are interviewed is one of the distinguishing features of this project. These remarkable individuals were generous with their time and thought hard to reflect on their experiences.

About the author

In these studies and interviews, leaders, entrepreneurs and scholars in The Owls Foundation's network describe and analyse innovations in business, philanthropy, diplomacy, economics, investing, geopolitics, media, agriculture, logistics, technology and healthcare. 

Henk van den Breemen, Chairman of The Owls Foundation is holds several advisory and board memberships with large and small institutions, specialising in development strategies for innovation and their implementation. He is a retired General and former Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, who carried out a far-reaching modernisation and professionalisation of the Dutch armed forces after the fall of the Berlin wall. He organised and co-authored Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World (2008).