Categoria: innovation

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Birmingham’s Velocity Accelerator Program is off to a prosperous start in more ways than one. The new program, which launched last year and aimed to boost the profile of Birmingham’s startup scene and help entrepreneurs grow their businesses, wrapped up its first year in April with its Demo Day. Enlarge Innovation Depot, the location of…

Innovation Fund launches Funding from Natural Gas Cleantech Innovators

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OTTAWA, July 31, 2017 /CNW/ – The Natural Gas Innovation Fund (NGIF) is accepting submissions for funding to support natural gas cleantech research, demonstration and deployment innovation projects in Canada. NGIF was created by the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) in 2016 to support the funding of innovation in the natural gas value chain. It selects…

Innovate UK offers £8m to fund digital healthcare innovation. Sign up !

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To support a growing, ageing population, Innovate UK is making up to £8m available to UK businesses to develop new and novel digital healthcare solutions. This competition is being run under the digital health technology catalyst, which is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The aim is to support the development of digital health…

What are the benefits of embracing a digital innovation process?

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in BNDES, innovation

The digital innovation process has made organizations more agile, but the shift could present its own set of IT challenges for modern companies. Genpact’s Gianni Giacomelli explains why. Gianni Giacomelli: What we see people most benefiting from right now is significant cost reduction in a number of business processes. Banks, for example, have been able…

The Lifeblood of Success: How to Encourage Innovation at Your Company

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in innovation, Start up

Image credit: Shutterstock Last month, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked leader of the newly created White House Office of American Innovation, Jared Kushner, held his first conference call to discuss the nation’s state of innovation. Coinsidering that those on the call included leaders such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk, Kushner…

Putting innovation to work

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Business innovation isn’t rocket science—it’s really just a creative new way of thinking about how to accomplish a goal. But truly innovative home builders are nearly as rare as people who have walked on the moon. Builders who know how to innovate can reap big rewards. For instance after a Chapter 11 filing in the…

Bridging the gap: Can universal income help boost global innovation?

jul 28, 2017

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Universal basic income is not a novel concept. Introduced as early as the 1500s, governments have entertained the idea of introducing a basic living wage to combat various issues confronted by societies around the world. From decreasing theft and crime, combatting poverty, implementing a universal basic income is considered to by many to be a…

Young, Chinese and overseas Chinese startups push into foreign markets

jul 28, 2017

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in innovation, Start up

Firms such as Ehang and Musical.ly are discovering more opportunities abroad than at home ON THE outskirts of Guangzhou, a city in southern China, lies an abandoned park filled with crumbling replicas of the wonders of the world. To the right are fading golden spires that are meant to represent Angkor Wat, a temple in…

The rise of “deep-tech” is boosting Paris’s startup scene

jul 28, 2017

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in innovation, Start up

Less misérable The capital now leads Europe for the number of venture-capital funding rounds EUROPE will never create a hub of tech firms and investors to rival Silicon Valley, many experts on entrepreneurship concur. Its markets are still fragmented along national lines, flows of capital into the region are limited and because of lingering,…

A mais nova startup do Canadá é brasileira

jul 27, 2017

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