How Innovation can Change our World, Prof. Dr. Eduard Heindl

Why new things
Discoveries
09:56 The end of the old philosophy
“The goal of science is the control of nature in the interest of progress. But man could only control nature if he knew it.”*
Francis Bacon, Essays, 1597
"The Discovery of Ignorance", Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2011
Physics and Mathematics
Boundaries Petrify
"And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must first be a destroyer and break values.
16:02 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spake Zarathustra, 1884
19:33 "continually destroying the old structure and continually creating a new one." Joseph A. Schumpeter: Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie, 1942
24:23 Railways
Development of the Railway
Influencing factors on spreading
30:30 Development of solar energy
The learning curve for hard disks
The learning curve for solar energy
35:18 Feedback: Learning curve
Acceleration of the development
Companies in the DAX
Companies in DOW and year of incorporation
Company foundations
Aspects of the promotion of innovation
Polytechnic School Munich
Marienbrücke near Neuschwanstein
More bluish Blue
Dream of Flying
49:30 Hippie Culture
Steve Jobs
Elon Musk
Aspects of the promotion of innovation
Sustainable or Innovative
Technical and social innovations
Innovations improve our world