Categoria: funding
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How Creating An Entrepreneurship Function Can Help Sustain Corporate Innovation
Lean Startup Week 2017 has just wrapped up in San Francisco. It was a great week of workshops and keynote speeches. The week was themed around The Startup Way, which is the latest book by Eric Ries. Conversations during the week were focused on how large established companies can effectively adopt and apply startup…
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Google’s $2.7 billion EU fine will help innovation, competition commissioner says
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, European Commission, on centre stage during the Web Summit 2017 The record $2.7 billion antitrust fine that the European Union slapped on Google in June will help drive innovation, the European commissioner for competition told a tech summit Tuesday. Margrethe Vestager, who has been criticized for targeting U.S. tech…
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UK, EU ‘must urgently agree’ deep science partnership
A new, deep and special partnership in science and innovation between the European Union and the United Kingdom must be agreed upon as a matter of urgency, a policy briefing published by the Centre for Global Higher Education, or CGHE, on 1 November has recommended. CGHE is based at the UCL Institute of Education in…
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How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom
First graders at Church Lane Elementary Technology in Randallstown, Md., often use laptops in class. Their district, Baltimore County Public Schools, has embarked on one of the most ambitious technology makeovers in the United States. CreditMatt Roth for The New York Times That is how educators at Church Lane Elementary Technology, a public school here,…
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From Goldman To Impact Investing: How This MBA Is Helping Traditional Investors To Help The Poor
I met Clare Murray through our common Columbia Business School connection roots over a year ago. Like many business school colleagues, she was looking for a way to use her finance background and skills to contribute to social change. She was already involved with BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing work, but looking for a more direct connection to investments…
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Finep apresenta oportunidades de financiamento a empresas do Sul em Florianópolis
A Finep realiza, nos dias 6 e 7 de novembro, o terceiro Encontro Finep para Inovação, no Centro de Eventos da Federação das Indústrias do Estado de Santa Catarina (Fiesc), em Florianópolis (SC). O objetivo da iniciativa é intensificar a atuação da financiadora junto a parceiros e potenciais clientes da região Sul. O evento, gratuito…
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The EC to Spend EUR 30 billion on Research, Science and Innovation by 2020
The total budget of the Horizon 2020 program is € 77 billion intended to support scientific excellence in Europe and to achieve significant breakthroughs in science. Over the next three years, the Commission will seek to provide more research funding to address fewer but important issues such as migration, security, the environment, clean energy…
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Irish government prepares for Brexit by funding new food innovation hub
The Irish government is to spend EUR8.8m (US$10.4m) on a new National Food Innovation Hub, intended to help the country’s food businesses deal with the fallout of Brexit, the UK’s departure from the European Union. The funding for the project in Cork will be via the country’s Department of…
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Does your business in UK need funding from a new innovation loan?
Innovate UK is holding a series of events around the UK to introduce a new pilot programme for innovation loans. To introduce these exciting new innovation loans, KTN is hosting a series of events across the UK. These events are aimed at senior decision-makers (CEO / CFO / CTO) in innovative SMEs and at key…
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We’re in a global innovation race’: Ottawa announces shortlist for ‘supercluster’ program
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Singh Bains .THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick The winning applicant from the Atlantic region is an industry consortium that would expand digital technologies in aquaculture, fisheries, offshore oil and gas, and clean energy Ottawa began rolling out the shortlist of companies to receive funding under its $950-million “supercluster” program…
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