Categoria: innovation
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Innovation to save money, water and power
Yet, for all the sectors embracing technology, government can sometimes lag behind. “Part of this is simple human nature: government officials become personally invested in their past decisions,” explains internet entrepreneur Kalev Leetaru, who founded his first company as an 8th grader. “New and disruptive innovations that might cast doubt on the wisdom of those…
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Price Controls Will Reduce Innovation and Health Outcomes
Abraham Kaplan famously noted that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” Put differently, solving problems requires the right tool, not the convenient tool. Congress should remember this wisdom in its upcoming deliberations regarding the cost of prescription drugs. The convenient tool when it comes…
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BC Innovation Council Awards $735,000 to Fund Market-Driven Research
VANCOUVER, Oct. 11, 2017 /CNW/ – The BC Innovation Council, a Crown agency of the Province focused on strengthening the B.C. economy through market driven innovation and technology, is excited to announce the winners of its third BCIC Ignite Awards. A total of $735,000 was awarded to four B.C. projects for industry-driven academic research…
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Being Vulnerable Is a Key to Innovation
At the Inc. 5000 conference in Palm Springs on Wednesday, Brown, the founder of Brave Leaders Inc. and a professor at the University of Houston, expanded on her viral TED Talkon the subject. She called vulnerability one of the “Four Pillars of Courage,” along with clarity of values, trust, and “the ability to get back…
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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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Need to source R&D funding? There’s an app for that
Minister of State for Training and Skills John Halligan, TD, and KTI director Dr Alison Campbell. Image: Conor McCabe Photography Knowledge Transfer Ireland helps businesses to benefit from access to Irish expertise and technology. Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) has created a new tool to find R&D funding and help organisations to get their research projects…
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Medtronic to Establish Innovation Center in China
Facilitating Clinical Training for Physicians and Advancing Local Healthcare Efficiency in Central and Western China DUBLIN and CHENGDU, Sichuan – October 10, 2017 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced the groundbreaking of its Chengdu Innovation Center at the Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park in Sichuan Province. Set to open in 2020, this center will provide a…
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Why We Need To Look For Innovation Outside America And Its Elites
Lately, some people have been blaming the new giants, like Facebook, for killing innovation. Some stories, like this one in the Washington Post, say Facebook’s practice of rapidly copying rival app’s features creates a disincentive for investors and companies to develop new features Facebook might copy. If we dug around, I think we could find…
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“Agricultural Innovations: Changes Needed for Global Competitiveness”
U.S. agriculture is a long-time leader in innovation and global competitiveness. But more collaboration and renewed focus on public-sector research are needed for that to continue. That’s a key conclusion from the Farm Foundation Forum on “Agricultural Innovations: Changes Needed for Global Competitiveness” held Sept. 17 in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Farm Foundation, a…
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When Innovation Centers Don’t Innovate
It’s easy to understand why enterprises find innovation centers attractive. We operate in economies increasingly defined by rapid change — by cloud computing, mobility, on-demand culture, platforms, networks effects, machine learning, apps, pervasive connectivity and, above all, digital disruption. Launching an innovation center probably sounds like a good response to all that of firms navigating digital…
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