Can we scale up love?

Can we scale up love?

We all have our own ways of developing innovation. Last week, at a Nova SBE Haddad Entrepreneurship Institute event I got to know a singular one - and "love" is at its heart.

The Patient Innovation Bootcamp by EIT Health and Carnegie Mellon University focuses on scaling up medical and care solutions that patients and their close partners developed for their own health problems. Solutions that people developed for themselves and loved ones, to solve serious medical issues and that those people tested on themselves - and, that they believe can solve the same problems in other people.

There are "electronic eyes" developed by parents for their vision-impaired children. There is a story of a deadly cardiac diagnosys on a smart engineer that considered it "just a plumbing problem". There are serious problems - and people that faced them head-on and decided they wanted to share their solutions with the world.

The Patient Innovation Bootcamp ( https://lnkd.in/dHy8Ja2m

) helps these innovators to scale up their solutions. In a way, I really do think they are "scaling up love" - is that possible?

Long-term targets

We all have targets, right? And we all know we should keep those targets short -termed to ensure their relevance, that they are easy to track and to ensure progression.

But that underestimates the magic of thinking long-term and setting additional targets that way - the short-term targets ensure progression, but "to what?", right? After all, as we Portuguese say, "Rome and Pavia weren't made in a day".

Bill Gates has a different way to put it: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year but underestimate what they can do in ten years".

So, go forth - think about where you (or your project) want to be in 5 to 10 years time... and set them as your long-term targets and objectives.