Categoria: innovation

Entrepreneurs doing VC pitching are providing solutions to a problem they solve in a market. When you are really good at entrepreneurship, you begin to see how things that are not even close to sounding like the same problem can be resolved by the same solution. This is how innovation starts. Large institutions are racing to open…

Empty talk is killing on innovation is killing Canada’s economic prosperity

mar 20, 2017

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Jim Balsillie is former co-CEO of BlackBerry and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. If overuse of the word “innovation” was our only problem, Canadians would not have much to fear. What we should fear is a stubborn reliance on 19th- and 20th-century policy strategies that have nothing to do with how wealth…

Canada will launch a competition to invest $ 800 million in innovation projects

mar 17, 2017

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Justin Trudeau Canada’s federal budget will launch a competition to pick about a half dozen research clusters that will receive hundreds of millions in government funding, people familiar with the plans say. Innovation and skills training will be a key theme of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget, due for release March 22 in…

Europe is losing the global innovation race

mar 17, 2017

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Unless the European Commission changes its attitude, the innovation gap between Europe and the US will likely increase, and it could be overtaken soon by China, with dire consequences for living standards, warns Philip Stevens. Philip Stevens is director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organisation focusing on innovation, trade and health policy. The European…

Innovation is thriving in British Columbia / Canada

mar 17, 2017

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Minister Bains concludes successful three-day tour of B.C., announces funding for local innovative businesses VANCOUVER, March 15, 2017 /CNW/ – Innovation is thriving across Canada, from developing clean energy technologies for creating alternative sources of fuel, to enhancing pharmaceutical discovery processes for combatting major diseases, to modernizing communications systems that will increase public transit safety.…

Bilionário produtor de cashmere dá show de empreendedorismo

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SOLOMEO, ITÁLIA — “A beleza salvará o mundo”. Esta citação do escritor russo Fiódor Dostoiévski aparece na primeira página do site da Brunello Cucinelli, a mais importante companhia de moda italiana especializada em cashmere. Logo em seguida, há uma imagem do fundador homônimo com a frase “O grande sonho da minha vida sempre foi…

The state of bank innovation in 5 charts

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Major banks have been doing more work with the startups that once tried to displace them. Most other banks, with fewer customers and less capital, are still figuring out their long-term digital strategies. In the last two to three years, banking giants have invested in fintech startups and partnered with them, they’re opening expensive new innovation labs and digital hubs and…

Embraer lands in the Silicon Valley, with sights on disruptive innovation

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San Francisco – CA, USA, March, 14 2017 – Embraer announced today that it is forming innovation teams in Silicon Valley and in Boston, in the United States. The objective is to explore business opportunities in the future of air transportation, with the collaboration of startups, investors, academia, and corporations. The team will seek partnerships…

Embraer se instala no Vale do Silício de olho em inovações disruptivas

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