Categoria: innovation
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Ottawa must improve research funding – or risk losing the innovation race
Consider a breakthrough in machine learning that revolutionized voice and image recognition, a drug that turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable disease, or a biotechnology sector with revenues in the billions that employs thousands of people. These three very different achievements share a common origin: They each stem from discovery research conducted…
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The Brazil+China Challenge: Pushing Development Toward the Frontiers of Innovation
CHINA POWER Image Credit: Flickr / Narendra Modi As BRICS gets underway, the 2017 Brazil+China challenge comes to an end. Organized by the Asian branch of BRASA, a global network of overseas Brazilian students, the two-day forum brought together an unprecedented number of politicians, CEOs and intellectuals from both countries to discuss one key question:…
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African mobile startups can apply for UK development funding
The M4D Utilities Innovation Fund was launched in June 2013, and in two phases of funding has so far awarded grants amounting to a total of GBP6 million (US$7.7 million) to 34 organisations across four continents. To date, M4D Utilities estimates the trials have impacted over 2.5 million direct beneficiaries in underserved populations around the…
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Beijing best city for innovation in China
The Ministry of Science and Technology published two reports on Wednesday about China’s innovation status in 2016 and 2017. One evaluates the overall innovation capability, and the other is a detailed ranking and analysis of each province’s innovation conditions and resources, from funding to market. According to the reports, China’s top five most-innovative municipalities and…
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Ontario government creates $25.8 million cleantech innovation fund
The Ontario provincial government is starting a $25.8-million fund to support the creation and commercialization of green technologies. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund will support technologies in areas such as alternative energy generation and conservation; new biofuels, bioplastics, and bioproducts; transportation; and carbon capture and usage. According to the government, the initiative is funded by…
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How innovation can solve society’s problem
An innovative commons model can be exemplified by something as high tech as a new app…or something as traditional as alpine cheese-making. When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places. Excellence in innovation is as…
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Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) for Brazil
The Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) fosters and supports collaborative industrial research and development projects with high potential for commercialization between Canada and partner countries. It also stimulates bilateral science and technology networking and matchmaking activities to further new partnerships and accelerate the commercialization of research and development. The CIIP is a “seed fund”, meaning…
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São Paulo busca investimento$ para se tornar um hub global de Inovação
São Paulo busca investimentos para se tornar um hub global de Inovação e uma das ações é estreitar a parceria com países como Israel, que em 2016, obteve US$ 5 bilhões de financiamento, com 86% de capital estrangeiro. Essa foi uma das constatações do Spin 2017 – SPInnovationSummit,realizado na semana passada, em São Paulo. O…
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European Research Council readies €2bn in science funding
The European Research Council (ERC) has earmarked €1.86bn for its next Work Programme scheme – a competition intended to give European researchers support to “deliver ground-breaking scientific results”. There are a total of five grants up for grabs outlined in the programme, with most of the fund reserved for early- to mid- career researchers. Carlo…
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IF BORDERS WERE OPEN THE $78 TRILLION FREE LUNCH
Yes, it would be disruptive. But the potential gains are so vast that objectors could be bribed to let it happen A HUNDRED-DOLLAR BILL is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks the economist: “Didn’t you see the money there?” The economist replies: “I thought I saw something, but I…
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