How can humanity jump-start breakthrough innovation?

The rapid development of the mRNA covid vaccine shows that breakthrough innovation can happen at great pace when needed - so what’s holding us back in other areas? How can the world – and business – deliver transformational new technologies at speed?  Drawing on lessons from the development of other breakthrough technologies, Chief Operating Officer of Wellcome Leap and former acting director of the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Ken Gabriel, talks about the recipe for breakthrough, rather than incremental, innovation.  He is joined by PwC UK’s Leo Johnson, Head of Disruption & Innovation, to discuss the future of innovation for some of society’s biggest challenges and the crucial issue of trust. 

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How can business help solve society’s biggest challenges? Welcome to Series 3 of Take on Tomorrow, the award-winning podcast from PwC that examines the biggest problems facing society and the role business can—and should—play in solving them. This series, we’re welcoming broadcaster and journalist Femi Oke to the show. She joins podcaster and journalist Lizzie O’Leary, and together with industry innovators, tech trailblazers and visionary leaders from around the globe, they’ll explore timely topics like how to lead a responsible business, how quantum computing will radically change our world, and the future of our food. Plus, we’ll take the podcast on the road and spotlight insights from pivotal global events like Climate Week NYC and the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Listen now on your favorite platform.