Sydney Business Insights

This week's April Fool's special edition: how Elon Musk wants to save us from the AI apocalypse, the role of smart phones in planned parenthood, farmers hacking tractors, and Trump's burning tweets. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-1-apr-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

Energy is critical to economic, social and environmental well-being. In this what if podcast set two years into the future in January 2019, we explore how the election of Donald Trump as US president has radically changed the trajectory of US and global energy markets. Associate Professor Jane Le and Professor Christopher Wright discuss how this major political outcome shapes energy futures. Our what if podcasts are an invitation to imagine and explore complex implications of potential dramatic change on the future of business. This podcast was recorded before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

Milton Friedman famously argued that ‘the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits’, pay taxes and let the government deal with the rest. In 2011, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer wrote in the Harvard Business Review that business can create economic value while addressing social needs and challenges: ‘shared value is… a new way to achieve economic success.’ We talk to Associate Professor Rae Cooper and Associate Professor Ranjit Voola about the role of business in society. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links to this podcast visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts

This week: why the hard questions go unanswered, the road for self-driving cars seems rockier than we thought, and robolawyers. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-24-mar-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

The energy industry is a critical industry because it underpins Australia's economic success and quality of life. However, it is also a complex industry, since it tries to meet competing economic, environmental and social objectives. But what about the other side of the story? How can we move beyond economic and engineering perspectives we naturally tend to focus on and consider the human side of energy security? We talk to Jane Lê to find out. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links for this episode visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts

This week: why electric cars are nothing like fax machines, Elon Musk offers to solve South Australia’s power problems in 100 days, and a strange experiment at the German space agency. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-17-mar-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

Today more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and this trend is expected to continue. As 1.5 million people move to cities every week, the country level competition is redefined at the city level. So how do cities compete with each other? We talk to Professor Bo Nielsen to find out. Show notes and links for this episode: The location choice of foreign direct investments: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951616301560 PDF article - Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy: http://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/sbi.contents/images/20170314130704/JIBS2013.pdf

This week: is Silicon Valley sexism a feature or a bug, why your TV might be spying on you, and fake milk. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-10-mar-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

It is hard to think of the poorest people in the world as an opportunity to do business, and of lifting them out of poverty as anything other than the domain of government or not-for-profit organisations. But what if there is a case for market-based mechanisms in alleviating poverty? Or is business indeed the answer to the alleviation of poverty? We talk to Associate Professor Ranjit Voola who advocates re-imagining the purpose of business, where there is both an economic and moral imperative for businesses to engage in alleviating poverty, whilst making profits. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links for this episode visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts

This week: why the tax office is interested in social media, robots in education and why phones that are not so smart are suddenly appealing. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-this-week-03-mar-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

Innovation is crucial to solving the toughest problems raised by rapid urbanisation, problems like public transportation, urban poverty, homelessness or unemployment. Today such problems are tackled by urban impact entrepreneurs faced with all the challenges of any entrepreneurs, as well as a unique set of challenges that come with doing social urban innovation. We talk to May Samali, Director at Tumml, about how can we help entrepreneurs make our cities better. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

In The Future, This Week Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business. This week: taxing robots, horse manure, disruption in hindsight and batteries that aren't boring. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-this-week-24-feb-2017/. If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts.

There are millions of news articles, blog posts, company profiles, and patents out there and we are increasingly facing an overload of information. The time we spend trying to parse the data to make informed decisions, but also to try to identify new connections and trends is growing exponentially. We talk to Dan Buczaczer from Quid about how machine intelligence is helping us interrogate the world’s collective intelligence. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

Are today’s innovation centres, hubs, labs the answer to driving innovation in business today? Or much like animals in farms or zoos, an attempt ‘tame the wild’? Together with Ella Hafermalz and Dirk Hovorka from the University of Sydney Business School, we explore the metaphor of human/animal interaction as it relates to innovation centres within organisations. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links for this episode visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts

Sydney Business Insights is a University of Sydney Business School initiative aiming to provide the business community and public, including our students, alumni and partners with a deeper understanding of major issues and trends around the future of business. We bring together insights from our researchers with insights from leading thinkers in industry, government and community. We start our journey by identifying six megatrends with complex impacts on business, economies, individuals and society: impactful technology, evolving communities, rapid urbanisation, empowering individuals, economic power shift and resource security. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.