Web 3.0 and International Innovation

Web 3.0Computers start to understand natural language and can reason with information

Ex of productisation of services: ServiceFrame’s web-based software monitors the outsourcing or shared services contracts that companies have with external service

providers

Sold my technology business in 2008 – decided to Circle the Planet

Decided to circle the planet and in the interest of doing my bit for digging us out of the hole I carried out two pieces of research while travelling.

My travelling tool kit Satellite tracker, camera, notebook and mobile phone

20 countries74,000 km

35 meetings and facility visits

2 research reports completed

Individual Projects of Interest

http://www.siliconwelly.com/

New Zealand - Silicon Welly is a community of Wellington based, and New Zealand owned technology and creative

businesses individuals and organisations who together are making Wellington a high quality global hi-tech hub.

We share knowledge and collaborate on ideas between local tech and creative businesses

AustraliaINNOVIC (c/o Australian Productivity Council)

is a not for profit organisation assisting over 1,800 innovators each year, helping to turn new ideas,

inventions and innovations into viable products and new businesses.

INNOVIC also runs Next Big Thing Award™, an international competition to find, showcase and award

leading-edge new inventions, innovations and ideas with the potential to become the 'next big thing'.

http://www.nextbigthingaward.com/

Social innovation at its best http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Minimally

Invasive Education for street kids in India

Gathering of technology companies, investors, academia, government and the supporting infrastructure of the innovation

economy in Canada http://www.canadianinnovationexchange.com/

http://www.quirky.com/ social product development via a community platform

Using student crowd sourcing to solve company problems for a prize http://crowdsourcing.brainrack.com

DUNLOP From Malacca, Malaysia,to May Street, Belfast. Built in 1910 it was a corner stone of the Dunlop growth until the 1970s

Petronas Twin Towers - Kuala Lumpur - 452 meters-high

Seen from the KL Tower

www.eoincostello.ieeoincostello@gmail.com

Currently a MSc student at University of Ulster – Business Development & Innovation