I want to the British Wind Energy Association conference in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago. It is a technology that I take a keen interest in and it is amazing to see how the sector is developing.

When I first started going to the wind conferences it was very much a young sector lots of emerging technology and heavily engineering focused sector. Innovation was the way that companies differentiated themselves. As the sector has matured a whole ecosystem of support services have grown up around the turbine producers and the pace of innovation has slowed and more commercial entities exist.

This evolution is a bit like the Internet the early adopters were pioneers, primarily software engineers and the pace of innovation was immense. Now as the Internet becomes a lot more commercially minded the web looks nothing like it did 10 years ago.

This poses the interesting question of predicting the next bounce of the ball where is the Internet going next? For those people who are ahead of the curve there will be great businesses built and for those that lag behind it will be an uphill battle.

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