Jonathan Clement held a keynote speech on the global challenges with innovation of water treatment technology during the ‘I Am Innovation’ congress on 19 May in Rotterdam.
Innovation requires creativity, highly engaged and specific experts, risk, capital and broad engagement of the primary stakeholders.
Key to developing innovative solutions that truly provides technology with market value is to have utilities in a leadership position in the development of technologies. Close partnership with universities, consultants and technology providers is key to success. His presentation showed how three major global utilities, PUB (Singapore), Water Corporation (Australia) and PWN (the Netherlands) achieved success with this integrated model.