The Unbearable Lightness of Uncertainty
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As many others, the sentence above emerged during a sunny July afternoon while the IdeaSquare Self-Appointed Innovation team (ISSAIT) consumed pizza. It was clear to everyone that a possible answer to this conundrum required starting the research from almost the very beginning…yes THAT beginning. So here they went!
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