If necessity is the mother of invention, then we will likely see a motherlode of innovation over the next couple of years. The necessity is trying to restore economic activity in a constrained public health environment.
As we described in a Toffler Associates’ recent blog about the Phases of Recovery from COVID-19, "The Great Wait" period between the relaxing of social distancing policies and the discovery and global distribution of a vaccine or therapies that lessen the dangers of COVID-19 will be fertile ground for innovation. Business-as-usual practices won’t drive sufficient economic and social activity.
