Understanding the impact of partnerships in technology projects
A partnership in a technology project is usually announced with enthusiasm and assessed with vagueness. An agreement is signed, the photograph is published, and two years later nobody can say what changed. Measuring the impact of a partnership means deciding, before it starts, what it is supposed to change. Three different things called partnership They […]
Why LIPS Maker is the right innovation hub
A title like that calls for honesty: there is no innovation hub that is ideal for everyone. There is the environment suited to a type of need. So rather than listing qualities, it is worth describing precisely who LIPS tends to work for — and who it does not. What LIPS is LIPS is the […]
How workshops can boost your creativity
Workshop has become an elastic word. It covers a lecture with a coffee break, software training and a sticky-note exercise. What separates a workshop that changes something from one that fills an afternoon is simple: in the first, people leave with something built; in the second, they leave with notes. Creativity comes from constraint, not […]
Tips to turn your idea into a prototype
Between the idea and the prototype there is a stretch that tends to be underestimated. It is not the technical stretch — it is the one where you decide what, exactly, the prototype has to prove. Skip that step and you build a handsome object that answers nothing. What follows is a practical route. 1. […]
The power of collaboration in technology projects
Technology projects rarely fail from technical incompetence. They fail from poor coordination: the electronics engineer delivers a board that does not fit the housing the mechanical engineer designed, because nobody scheduled the meeting where that constraint would have surfaced. Collaboration, in this context, is not a behavioural virtue — it is a method for reducing […]
Ideas for innovative products: where to look
Almost every article about innovative ideas promises inspiration and delivers a list of trends. The problem is that a trend is not an idea — it is context. The idea appears when someone looks at a concrete nuisance and asks why it is still like that. This piece is about where to find that nuisance. […]
The role of LIPS Maker in connecting academia and industry
The distance between the university and industry is rarely about knowledge. Almost always it is about language, timelines and risk. The researcher measures success in rigour and publication; the company measures it in deadline and return. When the two talk without a translator, the conversation stalls — not out of bad faith, but because each […]
How rapid prototyping is changing innovation
For decades, turning an idea into a product meant waiting. Waiting for the drawing to become a mould, the mould to become a part, the part to come back for correction. Each cycle cost weeks and enough money to discourage the next attempt. Rapid prototyping changed that equation — and the change is less about […]