By the time a product gets to the vendors on Canal Street in NYC, you can be sure there’s a proven market for it. The knock-off bag and perfume and gift makers don’t go into production without a big demand. It’s safe to say that anything that appears for sale in the shops known for [...]
I had an interesting conversation with Simon Roberts this morning about the reasons for the slow pace of take up of aging-focused products. Simon is an anthropologist, and spent 6 years working on innovations in the aging space at Intel (now at a cerebral-sounding strategy and innovation consultancy, RedAssociates) and set up their aging-focused lab in Ireland. [...]