OpenUK open source tech and the circular economy laban nov 2020
Hannibal\'s Elephants: Significance to Today\'s Tunisia
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5. Strategic Innovator: attack
Italy from Iberia via Gaul
and over the Alps ( first
mover advantage )
Tactical Innovation: Use of
Elephants in warfare
originated in Indian,
deployed by Alexander the
Great in Asia campaigns,
apparently first deployment
in Europe ( importing
foreign technology )
6. Sale of electricity to customers in Europe
Submarine cable transporting clean energy to Europe
CSP plants producing clean energy in the desert
8. Strategic Innovation: cable
to European centres of
demand north of Rome (first
mover advantage)
Tactical Innovation: CSP
technology with storage
provides base load power
and allows competition with
fossil fuels and nuclear