Categoria: innovation
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How can Brexit affect innovation ?
Britain has for centuries been a world centre for innovation. This has helped support our economy. Brexit provides us with a clear opportunity to ensure this continues. Post-Brexit, we can introduce differentiated business legislation that will support investments and innovations to help the country thrive. Historically, English property law has been the cornerstone of this,…
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One more innovation ranking
This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. Our reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use the engine of commerce to make a difference in the world. Impact is among our key criteria. WINNERS BY RANK…
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Open innovation in the public sector
Learning from others’ experience True citizen expansion implies enriching the elements that lead to a rational synthesis generated by both technical and non-technical knowledge. For instance, the Brazilian platform CidadeDemocrática is an example of collective participation that takes advantage of the network and turns citizen demands into primary sources of information and solution to problems. Another model…
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Everyone can innovate ?
(Image credit: Getty Images via GE Reports) Everyone can innovate. But innovative thought by itself is incomplete. Throughout my 30-year career, I have helped many businesses re-engineer their supply chains and boost their services – efforts that have certainly paid off. But when it comes to innovation, there appears to be a gap between aspiration…
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“Israeli Innovation Is Powering the American Economy”
More than 6,000 investors and entrepreneurs crammed the Israel Convention Center in Jerusalem Thursday for the annual OurCrowd Investors’ Summit, braving Jerusalem’s freezing rain to attend what was billed as the largest gathering of investors in Israeli history. Including investors from 82 countries and corporate representatives from close to 300 companies, as well as 250…
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“Innovation is the real way of achieving the nation’s prosperity …”
“Innovation is the real way of achieving the nation’s prosperity and we can achieve it by allowing creativity and allowing young minds to experiment and letting their crazy ideas come out,” the minister said. Innovation was the real way of achieving prosperity in country which can be achieved by letting young minds think out of…
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Online Education Costs More, Not Less
WCET The myth that online education courses cost less to produce and therefore save students money on tuition doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, a survey of distance education providers found. The survey, conducted by the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET), found that most colleges charge students the same or more to study online. And when additional…
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The most innovative countries in the world in one map
HowMuch.NetThe U.S. is by far the most innovative country in the world. It may not be the most prosperous nor the smartest country on earth, but the U.S. leaves the rest of world in the dust in one important area—innovation. The map of the most innovative countries—as measured by the number of patents filed between 1977 to 2015—shows that when…
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P&G launches tech innovation center in Brazil
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) will launch a consumer technology innovation center in Brazil next month. The facility will be working on research and development to bring more innovative ideas and sustainability to products, packaging and processes. The firm has some 17 such centers in operation worldwide. Initially, the center will be based…
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Innovation & Transformation: they are not synonymous
Innovation and transformation are often used synonymously, but they are different in the digital world. In some instances, transformation can lead to innovation. In others, innovation can lead to transformation, but this mutually causal relationship is often overlooked since they are thought to mean the same thing. While indeed related, it is crucial for modern…
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