Autor: Consultoria de Investimentos
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Canadian AMR report urges action, federal leadership
The Canadian parliament has issued a new report that calls on the country’s public health agency to speed up development of a plan to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and urges more federal leadership and coordination on the issue. The report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health comes after 2 years of study,…
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Ontario Supporting Creation of Innovation Hub for Students and Entrepreneurs in Mississauga
Province Providing Entrepreneurship and Start-up Business Support May 3, 2018 3:00 P.M. Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development Ontario is supporting students and young entrepreneurs who want to explore the world of entrepreneurship, turn ideas into products and businesses and develop the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur with the creation of a…
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Zhou Qunfei, a chinesa que saiu da pobreza e se tornou a mulher não-herdeira mais rica do mundo
Empresária chinesa acumulou o equivalente a R$ 25 bilhões e lidera a lista feminina da Forbes de pessoas que não receberam heranças dos pais – ela trabalhou criando porcos e patos na juventude Muitos milionários do mundo chegaram a essa condição recebendo heranças. Não é o caso de Zhou Qunfei, a mulher mais rica do…
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Women in Innovation: Gaining Ground, but Still Far Behind
Patents are a reasonable proxy for the relative contributions of the genders, and there’s a huge disparity still to be overcome World Intellectual Property Day fell on April 26 this year. The theme was “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity,” so it’s an appropriate time to analyze the gender distribution of scientists and inventors…
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Brasil apresenta esforço de inovação à comunidade internacional
Congresso de empreendedorismo O InovAtiva Brasil, programa de aceleração de startups do Ministério da Indústria e Comércio (MDIC) e do Sebrae, foram apresentados à comunidade internacional durante a 10ª edição do Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) em Istambul. O evento, que reúne representantes de 170 países, é um dos maiores eventos de empreendedorismo do mundo. Durante…
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Public funding cuts hurt Finnish innovation
The former boss of Tekes, the public funding body for technology and innovation now under the umbrella of Business Finland, says the state is doing innovation wrong. Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara led Tekes – the state business development body now called Business Finland – for more than a decade. “In Finland the thinking now is that companies…
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Salesforce Backs $100 Million Venture Capital Fund in Canada
Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management software, is investing $100 million in Canadian technology through a venture fund to support tech start-ups. The Salesforce Ventures unit set up the Canada Trailblazer Fund to help cloud-computing startups in the country, the San Francisco-based company said Thursday in a statement. First-round funding recipients include…
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Parceria entre Prefeitura e Estado viabiliza até R$ 15 milhões para desenvolvimento de tecnologias inovadoras na área da Saúde
Estão abertas as inscrições para o edital “Pesquisa para o Desenvolvimento de Inovação em Cidades Inteligentes – Grandes Metrópoles”, viabilizado pelo acordo de cooperação técnica entre a Prefeitura de São Paulo, representada pelas secretarias de Saúde e Inovação e Tecnologia, e o Governo do Estado, representado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de…
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Think innovation will save the economy? That’s probably an illusion.
We now have a new paper from economist Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern University that seeks to answer a great puzzle of our time: “Why has economic growth slowed when innovation appears to be accelerating?” In the process, Gordon illuminates a dispute between the Trump administration (which thinks growth can be increased) and its…
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