Posts by Michel Vandenberghe

Hi Jon,
You're right and there's only one way to do that. To get All actors to engage themselves into the transition and, in order to do that they need access to the technology but not only. They need to be in a position to manage all the risks to massively engage this transition. This is the core of our proposal. We are neutral and a pure player, neither a technology provider nor an application provider. We only focus on implementing the massive transition process.
The only successful example of massive transition is the WWW. The core technology of the WWW is highly smart but is a small thing. All the actors have integrated themselves this technology in their product and adoption was driven by a network effect by design. LENR technology does not force any adoption pattern.
At LENR-Cities we have designed a business model to adopt the technology in a way which drives a network effect.

I got a question about our prototype.
If you think about a working product as a LENR product... You do not understand the approach.
For instance:
Tom Darden at ICCF19 did not tell anything about LENR and [lexicon]IH[/lexicon] product.
Rossi is talking about massive manufacturing capabilities.
Why? Is it enough to have a working prototype? No, one needs to set up a business process to be successful and there's an imperative need about this process: This business process must enable to : Move from research to a market ready product and to avoid a market collapse.
LENR-Cities implements LENRG and people within LENRG can have working prototypes.
We are proposing them a business process in order to get them to do business with their prototypes !
It is a business to do that !

Our business process is based on an innovative business model with Scientists/technologists and industrialists.
LENR-Cities prototype is an ecosystem prototype (it is our "product"), our prototype;, which has the basic capabilities to implement this business process.

Hi Alain,

Thanks for this post. To clarify your comments. By definition, a disruptive innovation has no market and the LENR technology needs a market to move from the research up to a market ready product, I.e. in order to become an innovation - it is how innovation works. If LENR technology can disrupt the fossil energy business (in particular), it would trigger the collapse of the financial market and so on. then, It is a disruptive technology.

We face a major dilemna. We need to make a market to get LENR but making a market might disrupt the market itself.

Some actors have some products 'ready'. There's no only one LENR technology but many and by design it would a stupid idea to protect something which is a future commodity,if you are not able to address the major market demand. One option is to be able to flood the market with one product as demand is very high in order to get a wide share and increase the access cost of this market. In practice, this strategy will unlock a massive investment in developing other implementations but will not address the risk of major destructive creation with a global market collapse.

Then what are the possible strategies? considering the objective is to implement a peaceful transition...

- Sell a product to address one specific usage only. People are not stupid. Collapse.
- Capture a wide market to make money and disappear. Collapse.
- Set up a LENR 21 ( I'm thinking about COP 21) to get all nations to build an global plan. Humm..... no way
- Get one BRIC making the technology to address its own market. for Instance China. Global war. collapse
- Make it as an open technology. a step forward with the potential to get any actor to use the technology. but.... collapse
- .....

Making the technology widely available is mandatory but not enough. then what? our proposal: Open Business.

Objective is to create an initial market in a way that with its global offering, it enables any actor to implement technology and applications LENR quickly. " Changing all at the same time means no change". Need is to create an initial market to move LENR from research to market ready technology with a market being designed in order to enable any actor to be LENR ready. The KEY is the business model of this offering. Any actor willing must join the initial market and endorse its objective. It is the only way to scale fast and to reduce the overall impact.

What is the LENR-Cities proposal?
Flooding (LENR) are coming. Participate in the construction of a factory (market) which produces ships (enabler) in order to get a ship (be LENR ready).

Why LENR-Cities instead of any large existing company?
LENR-Cities is a pure player, and has no existing market then is neutral. To create an initial market (an ecosystem), is its business !

But if your ecosystem scales fast, you need to scale fast. How do you plan to manage?
We are working on a digital platform to implement the global process.

What is missing to LENR-Cities for the second stage of its project?
Funding: to create the tool to enable the development of the initial market. we have a team, an offering, a strategy and a market. we have a prototype. we have some initial players...
Coverage in all countries.
and more Talents !

is there any risk of flooding?
sure, Global challenges. IS there a ship? hummm... “We Ignore This New Capability at our Technological, Environmental and Commercial Peril”...

It is a different topic close to Open source. you have the ownership (IP) and you decide to change the rules about what you own (DP) to solve some issues of IP

Open IP is not Open Patent.

Except the guy who explains that with a product everything will be ok, very good questions

Today dominant actors buy the market. They do not do it except if you think that this is a way to make market. This is not my view. The reason is that we need to innovate faster.

LENR alone is not enough. It is going to trigger innovation in all Industries and the capabilities of our existing organizations are not appropriate as most actors considers it is already an issue to cope with the current pace of innovation. That means we need to redefine how we innovate. Innovate in innovation, seems a strange concept for most people. But if you consider that Innovation is a market process and the market organization is an essential factor, this is not so strange...

It is part of the LENR-Cities Business Plan to enable any organization willing to replicate Ecosystems at any scale.

G-DAY is the programme LENR-Cities and LENRG have presented at Milano the 10th to work on the Theory in order to unleash massive investment in industries

great event where I've met great people...

LENR-Cities is a pure player in ecosystem development. as part of our plan, next step is to create LENR-Venture (only a temporary name) which is a new kind of investment managing company specifically designed for ecosystem. We are looking for a strategic VC partner.Welcome to [lexicon]IH[/lexicon] for the US.:- )

A bientôt

Hello. To walter.
'G' is like 'I' used by Apple. Any object can become a G-object. Alain did a good guess when he wrote G-bike and so on.
Please remind that LENR-Cities is a pure player in ecosystem development and LENRG, an LENR ecosystem. Search 'era ecosystems ibm ibv' to find a good paper to introduce what an ecosystem is.
Best regards,
Michel Vandenberghe

Alain, you wrote : << The LENR cities approach seems to be quite natural when you follow this business trend >>

Yes.
and we are proposing to use an innovative organization to develop and industrialize an innovate technology.
BTW, as LENR is not a new topic, Ecosystems is not a new topic; We are working on that topic since 1999.

Hello Alain,

Let's consider an example. The Stock exchange. There's a company which operates the stock exchange. This company does not own the shares listed at the stock exchange. Traders use the Stock exchange. Traders and the stock exchange form the ecosystem. The Stock exchange company is a member of this ecosystem. Let's now consider the value of a company based on its share value. This information is used by the market to decide companies whose they want to buy or sell shares. Traders have a business agreement with the stock exchange company. This agreement enables traders to do buy and sell shares for their customers and for themselves. Without traders no stock exchange. Without the stock exchange company, no traders, no customers for traders.

LENR-Cities does not own any kind of rights of LENR technology. LENR-Cities build a market where traders are investors and customers industry companies. Industry companies are also investors. LENR-Cities does not define how actors collaborate. LENR-Cites has defined a model of collaboration with appropriate business services to get actors to define efficient and fair collaboration. Any actor can have as usual business agreement with LENR-Cities to use this services and operate into the "LENR market sandbox" ( i.e the stock exchange in our previous example).

in order to join, any actor must agree to join the ecosystem first. That is to say, to bring its own capability as part of Market sandbox which define what this market is. Operational services are provided by members of the ecosystem. What LENR-Cities is adding is the Market itself in order to enable these companies to operate.

Ecosystems are becoming a key resource for business. How to create, develop and operate them is the LENR-Cities expertise. What the ecosystem is doing depend on members of the ecosytem. For now, LENR-Cities has defined Ecosystem business services for Scientists, is working on implementing business services with industrial companies and investors.

Hope this help

ps : We use advanced models translated from IT world to industry world, say industry 2.0 That means a powerful market platform will support the whole ecosystem...

Thank you
Michel.