Patience is concentrated strength

Bruce Lee, known to many only as the Sino-American martial artist and actor in films such as “Fist of Fury”, also concerned himself with philosophical questions which is, in turn, less well known. The wording according to Bruce Lee is: “Patience is not passive. On the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” The same is true of the integration of innovativeresearch and product developments into established structures. Against the backdrop of the long road to be travelled from innovation to market launch and to the use of new technologies in concrete construction by means of guidelines and...

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