Categoria: innovation
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Why climate innovation needs women
The highlight of this week has been International Women’s Day, which celebrates the achievements of women and aims for a more gender inclusive world. It’s a timely moment to reflect – not just on why climate innovation is important to women, but why women are so important to climate innovation. One of the oft-cited arguments in…
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City of Toronto launching Civic Innovation Office to procure tech solutions for city problems
The City of Toronto has announced the creation of a Civic Innovation Office, which will work with City divisions and agencies to identify major challenges that can be solved through innovative partnerships with external teams. External teams will work through 16-week stints to create solutions to challenges faced by Toronto residents, which can be procured…
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Innovation to cure cancer
AUSTIN — Practically shouting for emphasis, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned plea Sunday to “the techies” in the audience at the South by Southwest festival here to find a cure for cancer. “You are the future,” Biden said in his first major speech on cancer since leaving the White House. “Many of…
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Renault opens an Innovation Lab in Paris devoted to the future of mobility
The Renault Open Innovation Lab – Le Square, located at République in central Paris in the midst of startups and university research organisations, puts Renault’s internal teams in touch with external partners. An Open Innovation Lab focusing on the future of mobility Renault Open Innovation Lab – Le Square aims to define new ways of…
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Disrupting government: Turning to innovation in its own back yard
© Thinkstock Hubs of innovation inevitably have a key factor – a geographic advantage or access to resources that make them uniquely positioned to be the renowned centers they are. For example, Boston is the home of some of the nation’s top medical programs (think Harvard and MIT), making it a hub for healthcare and pharmaceuticals.…
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Juniper Networks_Accelerate Innovation
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – March 07, 2017) – Juniper Networks (JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced a new organizational structure to support its innovation transformation strategy. To increase alignment between strategy and execution, Juniper has created a new position of Strategy and Product Line Management, senior vice president, and has appointed Kevin…
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Innovation in Canada
More particle than wave A geeky prime minister wants to make the country more inventive ASKED by a journalist in April about Canada’s role in fighting Islamic State, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, came back with a pithy lecture on quantum computing. “The uncertainty around quantum states,” he explained, lets quantum computers encode much more…
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China pledges to transform, upgrade real economy through innovation
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China will make greater efforts this year to implement innovation-driven development strategy, upgrade the structure of the real economy, and improve its performance and competitiveness, a government work report said Sunday. “The real economy has always been the foundation of China’s development; the task we now face is to speed…
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BASF sets up 50 million innovation campus in Mumbai
BASF Group inaugurated its new innovation campus in Mumbai with a total expected investment of up to €50 million from BASF Group, and marks the Group’s largest research and development (R&D) investment in South Asia. All global research operations at BASF Innovation Campus Asia Pacific (Mumbai) will be housed under BASF Chemicals India Private Limited,…
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3 of the best innovation team Formulas…and when to ignore them
You’ve heard this cliché many times before: innovation is all about people. Even if you’re an avid fan of artificial intelligence, you hardly expect robots replacing humans as innovators any time soon. And if you agree with another popular cliché, the one saying that innovation is a team sport, you will come to a natural…
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