Categoria: innovation
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How Canada can lead the world in innovating innovation
It is no secret that Canada lags behind its innovation potential, leading firms to be less competitive and Canadians sending more of their money to innovators abroad. More of the same – increasing intellectual property rights, asking universities to lead the way, tax credits that go nowhere – will not work. We need to do…
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Canadian medtech needs more early-stage funding
As any startup knows, access to capital is the single most consistent impediment to the incubation and growth of young companies. This is true everywhere in the world – even in the Silicon Valley and the medical research hubs of Boston – but it is particularly true here in Canada, where our often conservative investment…
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Amazon makes Cambridge heart of Alexa and drone innovation with new offices
Amazon has reiterated its commitment to the UK by opening a new so-called Development Centre in the heart of Cambridge – three storeys of premium office space housing 400 employees dedicated to research for products from Amazon’s AI-assistant Alexa to the brave new field of Prime Air drone deliveries. The new development joins Amazon’s original…
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Inside the Work of UK Innovation Centres
London, UK (Scicasts) – “There is a revolution going on – the global startup revolution,” writes Jean-Francois Gauthier, CEO and Founder of Startup Genome, in the latest Global Startup Ecosystem Report. The UK government recently pledged to provide £26.3 billion to safeguard the national research and innovation base, from April 2016 to April 2021. In…
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Andorra is helping change the world. Here’s how
When you think of innovation hubs around the world, Andorra, a tiny country tucked between Spain and France, may not come to mind. But, for several years, the 180-square-mile nation of 77,000 people has served as a “living lab” for researchers from MIT Media Lab’s City Science Initiative to prototype, deploy, and test urban innovation.…
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Striving For Perfection All But Kills Innovation
We are socialized to always try to do our best and our parents want us to be our very best. At the same time, products and tools compete for our attention with their attempts to out-beat and outpace everything else in the current marketplace. This environment of competition is not a bad thing as…
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Trump’s Energy R&D Policies Ignore the Long-Term Impact of Innovation
President Obama’s former chief science advisor says the Trump administration’s promise to slash funding for energy research is short-sighted. While Harvard University professor John Holdren was advising the White House, he helped shape many of America’s major climate commitments. He honed the Clean Power Plan and orchestrated the nation’s involvement in the Paris climate pact.…
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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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Want More Innovation? Change Your Mission Statement.
When it comes to creating an innovation culture, you get what you ask for. The Talking Heads may have alluded to this phenomenon most eloquently in the song “Give Me Back My Name.” The lyrics read: “There’s a word for it, and words don’t mean a thing. There’s a name for it, and names make…
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