Innovation: Coming up with new ideas
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair of AI startups share advice on breaking through.
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| 0:00.0 | Over 1,800 international businesses, including 14 of the top 15 US technology companies, |
| 0:06.1 | have established operations in Ireland, creating one of the world's leading innovation hubs. |
| 0:11.3 | These businesses have invested in Ireland because it delivers skills, support, stability, |
| 0:16.0 | sustainability and significant returns. |
| 0:18.6 | IDA Ireland, the National Investment Development Agency, |
| 0:22.2 | can help you tap into the same talent pool and support system |
| 0:25.3 | and hit the ground running. |
| 0:26.9 | Learn more at IDA Ireland.com. |
| 0:34.1 | The Economist. |
| 0:37.3 | Tell us what we're looking at. |
| 0:39.3 | You're basically seeing the robots building. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm on a building site and wearing a hard hat. |
| 0:44.7 | I've never felt more handy. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm here because Salar Al-Faji is showing me his vision of the future. |
| 0:51.8 | Al-Fagi isn't a builder. |
| 0:53.6 | He's not an architect. He's the co-founder of a Dutch |
| 0:57.2 | startup called Monumental. It makes AI-driven brick-laying robots. And they work together. They're |
| 1:04.2 | like coordinating. Like one is letting mortar and then push the other one is pushing down the brick |
| 1:08.1 | in there. And they grab the brick from another robot, which is the brick supply one. |
| 1:12.8 | And that one can just drive off, grab more bricks, come back. |
| 1:15.5 | Teams of four-wheeled robots are working alongside human masons |
| 1:19.0 | on a new residential property development, about 25 minutes from Rotterdam. |
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