S3E3 - How Long will it Take to Grow? The 4 Stages of Water Innovation! | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan - Founder & CEO @ BlueTech Research

💧 BlueTech Research analyzes innovative water technologies to transform your company.

💧 Paul is also the executive producer & co-director of Netflix's "Brave Blue World."

💧 ... and as he noticed, that he still had some time on Saturdays, he just completed a Ph.D. on the Dynamics of Water Innovation!

What we covered:

🍏 How long and what stages it takes for Water Innovations to exit the no man's land and cross the chasm

🍏 What are the milestones you shall identify on your path to guide you on the quest to mass market

🍏 Three Key Fields that attract 73% of investments to jumpstart your water venture

🍏 Key Hints on the best ingredients to get your water innovations adopted by the early and late majorities

🍏 How to get Netflix, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon and Jayden Smith to root for a Water Project

🍏 How claiming to bring innovation to life is as broad as saying you want to get a gold medal in the Olympics - you need to know first in which sport you're competing

🍏 How "Done" is better than "Perfect" and how "good enough" approaches may solve big hurdles in the Water Sector

🍏 How and Why there's more money spent in California every year on bottled water than on utility water

🍏 How everything looks like a nail if you only have a hammer - aka we might need new paradigms to solve the upcoming water challenges

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥

➡️ Send your warm regards to Paul O'Callaghan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/o2environmental/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here : https://dww.show/how-long-will-it-take-to-grow-the-4-stages-of-water-innovation

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About (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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Currently in its 10th Season, the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast has already welcomed around 250 guests from Water Majors (SUEZ, Veolia, Jacobs, Xylem, Kemira, Evoqua, Aquatech, SKion Water...), Scale-Ups (Cambrian Innovation, Epic Cleantec, Gradiant, Liqtech, 374Water, Gingko Bioworks...), Start-Ups (Puraffinity, KETOS, 120Water, ZwitterCo, Membrion, Source...), Universities (Berkeley, the Columbia Water Center), Investment Funds (Sciens Water, Mazarine, Burnt Island Ventures...), Business Accelerators (Imagine H2O, Elemental...), Book Authors (Seth Siegel, David Sedlak, David Lloyd Owen...) or Market Intelligence Companies (BlueTech Research, Global Water Intelligence, World Bank, OECD, Isle Utilities...). Or simply water legends like Gary White, Mina Guli or Andrew Benedek!

On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.

No one can claim an all-around in-depth understanding of a matter as complex as Water. But piece by piece, you can rebuild the puzzle. With curiosity, patience, and passion, Antoine Walter explores topics such as Advanced Treatment Technologies, Water-Energy Nexus (Hydrogen, Lithium...), PFAS removal, Nature-Based Solutions, Wastewater Reuse, Distributed Water Treatments, Water Finance, and Water Entrepreneurship.

I actually firmly believe that regular listeners of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast may, in the end, claim a "Water MBA!"

A particular field of interest is how innovation forms, grows and gets widely adopted in a complex and conservative field like the Water Industry. This may be one of the keys to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal n°6 - #SDG6.

Oh, and in short, about me: I'm a water engineer turned avid student of the water business, market, finance, and tech. I'm married, a happy father of three, and I'm French (nobody's perfect 😅).