Autor: Consultoria de Investimentos

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A IBM acaba de lançar uma iniciativa para a criação de soluções contra desastres naturais. Chamada de “Call for Code Global Iniciative”, o projeto visa inspirar desenvolvedores de startups, acadêmicos e corporativos do mundo no desenvolvimento de tecnologias que previnam e ajudem regiões a se recuperar do caos causado por terremotos, tempestades, incêndios e inundações.…

PIPE recebe propostas para terceiro ciclo de 2018

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in BNDES, FAPESP, funding, Fundo perdido

A FAPESP lança chamada de propostas para o 3º Ciclo de Análise de 2018 do Programa FAPESP Pesquisa Inovativa em Pequenas Empresas (PIPE). Estão reservados até R$ 15 milhões para atendimento às propostas selecionadas. O prazo final para submissão de projetos pelo SAGe termina no dia 30 de julho de 2018. As propostas de financiamento…

Edital de Inovação para a Indústria tem R$ 55 milhões para investir em projetos

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in chamada, edital, funding, Fundo perdido

http://www.portaldaindustria.com.br/senai/canais/edital-de-inovacao-para-industria/conheca-o-edital-de-inovacao/ Estão abertas inscrições para empresas de todos os portes que desejam financiamento e apoio de infraestrutura para desenvolvimento de projetos; iniciativa é do SENAI, do SEBRAE e do SESI O engenheiro João Paulo Bodanese, 34 anos, voltou de uma temporada nos Estados Unidos, onde fez um mestrado, com uma ideia que se transformou em…

Brazilian central bank draws on Big Tech support for new innovation lab

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in BNDES

The Central Bank of Brazil has opened an innovation laboratory for creating new financial applications with the support of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM. The Laboratory of Financial and Technological Innovations (Lift), will operate as a virtual collaborative environment where banks, academia, startups and big tech can collaborate on fresh ideas for expanding financial…

Canada’s crucial investment in tech and innovation

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in funding, incubator, innovation

By Justin Trudeau PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA MAY 16, 2018 The world is in the throes of a huge shift to a knowledge-based economy, driven by the creation of ideas and their translation into commercial value. This shift presents us with an extraordinary opportunity. There’s the prospect of well-paying new jobs and potential solutions to…

Trudeau touts technological innovation during MIT campus visit

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in innovation

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remembers asking his father why the stereo and other gadgets he had as a boy were made in Japan — not in Canada. The answer he eventually got from other people over the years was that Japan is a small country without a lot of natural resources, one…

Why Nonprofit Sustainability Means Doing Business Differently

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in social innovation

During my tenure as an executive director of a nonprofit, I often heard funders say, “You need to do business differently.” This usually came after funding cuts to an already lean budget. Frustration would follow, as I knew how efficiently we operated and wondered how we could do it differently. Now I train nonprofit leaders…

Bootstrap Your Corporate Innovation

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in innovation

How do you set up your innovation program? If you are reading this article, you have probably already struggled with this question. Should you set an idea funnel first or hire a cloud/blockchain/artificial intelligence (AI) expert? Should you try to change the culture or develop an innovation strategy with financial goals? You also know the…

The $100bn betThe meaning of the Vision Fund

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in angel investor, funding, innovation, Start up, venture capital

Succeed or fail, Masayoshi Son is changing the world of technology investing TWO years ago, if you had asked experts to identify the most influential person in technology, you would have heard some familiar names: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Alibaba’s Jack Ma or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Today there is a new contender: Masayoshi Son. The…

Innovation fund open to help children of dependent drinkers

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