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The Innovation System Behind Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast
The Innovation System Behind Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast
Uploaded 30-11-22
30 Nov 2022
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Noubar Afeyan, cofounder and chair of Moderna Therapeutics and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, says that the breakthrough innovation behind the company’s Covid-19 vaccine came not as a stroke of luck, but from a repeatable process. He outlines a system called “emergent discovery” that involves working back from future ideals, pioneering in novel spaces, encouraging unreasonable ideas, and persistently questioning hypotheses. And he says this process applies to other industries…
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