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DESCRIPTION:<a href="https://gdi.ch/event/18th-european-trend-day-6">18th E
 uropean Trend Day</a>\nHome Speakers Programme Information Venue Fees Medi
 a partners List of Participants Documentation About the conference Simplif
 y. Reduce. Degrow. From Industrial Overkill to Frugal Innovation One more 
 feature. Yet another gadget. More is more – that’s the industrial logi
 c of excess. The result? More complexity and more resource demand. And mor
 e of a burden on the environment. But there are alternatives. Frugal Innov
 ation means creating things by applying surprising ideas to scarce resourc
 es. Poorer countries adopted this approach faster\, insufficiency begets i
 ngenuity. But in the face of global warming and precarious supply chains\,
  such frugal innovations will become more important in industrialised coun
 tries\, too. Frugality meets a new mindset. Anxious people are demanding r
 eliability and sustainability. Their interest in degrowth\, the circular e
 conomy\, considerate consumption\, minimalism\, lo-tech\, no-code and FIRE
  (Financial Independence\, Retire Early) is proof of a change in values. B
 ut consumers don't want "less"\, they want "better". A desire for system i
 nnovation\, rather than product innovation evolves. At the GDI’s 18th Eu
 ropean Trend Day\, thought leaders and entrepreneurs will discuss issues s
 uch as: how frugal innovation works\; how companies can achieve frugal bus
 iness models\; how frugal innovation can be combined with simplicity and b
 eauty. Hashtag: #trendday2022 Speakers Jason Hickel United Kingdom Economi
 c anthropologist\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and author. Hicke
 l’s research focuses on global inequality\, political economy\, post-dev
 elopment\, and ecological economics\, which are also the subjects of his m
 ost recent book "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World". Navi Rad
 jou USA/France/India Author (i.a."Frugal Innovation: How To Do Better With
  Less" and "Jugaad Innovation"). As an expert on innovation and leadership
 \, Radjou advises [...]
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LOCATION:GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute\, Langhaldenstrasse 21\, 8803 R
 üschlikon\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:18th European Trend Day
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<a href="https://gdi.ch/event/18th-european-tr
 end-day-6">18th European Trend Day</a>\nHome Speakers Programme Informatio
 n Venue Fees Media partners List of Participants Documentation About the c
 onference Simplify. Reduce. Degrow. From Industrial Overkill to Frugal Inn
 ovation One more feature. Yet another gadget. More is more – that’s th
 e industrial logic of excess. The result? More complexity and more resourc
 e demand. And more of a burden on the environment. But there are alternati
 ves. Frugal Innovation means creating things by applying surprising ideas 
 to scarce resources. Poorer countries adopted this approach faster\, insuf
 ficiency begets ingenuity. But in the face of global warming and precariou
 s supply chains\, such frugal innovations will become more important in in
 dustrialised countries\, too. Frugality meets a new mindset. Anxious peopl
 e are demanding reliability and sustainability. Their interest in degrowth
 \, the circular economy\, considerate consumption\, minimalism\, lo-tech\,
  no-code and FIRE (Financial Independence\, Retire Early) is proof of a ch
 ange in values. But consumers don't want "less"\, they want "better". A de
 sire for system innovation\, rather than product innovation evolves. At th
 e GDI’s 18th European Trend Day\, thought leaders and entrepreneurs will
  discuss issues such as: how frugal innovation works\; how companies can a
 chieve frugal business models\; how frugal innovation can be combined with
  simplicity and beauty. Hashtag: #trendday2022 Speakers Jason Hickel Unite
 d Kingdom Economic anthropologist\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 
 and author. Hickel’s research focuses on global inequality\, political e
 conomy\, post-development\, and ecological economics\, which are also the 
 subjects of his most recent book "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the
  World". Navi Radjou USA/France/India Author (i.a."Frugal Innovation: How 
 To Do Better With Less" and "Jugaad Innovation"). As an expert on innovati
 on and leadership\, Radjou advises [...]
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