Categoria: innovation
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How To Talk About Innovation Like A Pro
If you have ever sat in on a meeting about innovation, chances are you probably heard a lot of jargon and buzzwords being thrown around. If you want to talk buzzwords with the best of them, use this article as a cheat sheet to help you out. Alternatively, if you find the buzzwords boring, take…
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Energy Storage is the Policy Epicenter of Energy Innovation
A darkened Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. Photo courtesy of David Shankbone. Right now, the reliability and economics of the electric power grid is changing. A major player in this change might be energy storage. Utilities have always known that storing electricity is valuable, but other than building dams to hold water, it wasn’t a…
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The Futurists
Drumroll, please. It turns out that the career path of the future just might be … forecasting and analyzing the future. At least, that’s what professional futurists seem to think. Their logic is tight: Things are changing fast, which unnerves corporate leaders, who are in turn willing to spend lots of money to learn about…
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IBM, Tiffany, J&J among 16 vying to build $20M RI innovation campus
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The R.I. Commerce Corporation said Friday it received 16 applications to tap $20 million in bond money for a new innovation campus in the state, with big names including IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Tiffany among those vying for the project. The campus has been a long-cherished goal of Gov.…
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Cambridge Innovation Center raises $58 million to grow its coworking hubs globally
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), which provides coworking space for startups, has closed a $58 million round of funding from European real estate developer HB Reavis (HBR). CIC campuses are essentially a mix of startups, “corporate innovation spin-outs,” and VC funds, with tenants given access to desks, meeting rooms, labs, and more. A number of notable companies…
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NEW SUPPORT ANNOUNCED FOR WOMEN IN INNOVATION
Innovate UK is to run a second phase of its female-only competition, making funding and support available to entrants Innovate UK has announced that it is to run a second phase of its Women in Innovation competition. The programme, which will launch later this year, will consist of a funding competition and support package to…
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Politics of innovation difficult but not impossible
The classic metaphor – Nero fiddles while Rome burns – has taken on new meaning in Canberra. While politicians exchange bile, the real engine room of government, cabinet’s expenditure review committee, is examining ominous material pointing to Australia’s future decline unless the economy innovates more. The choice is stark. As Australia’s innovation tsar Bill Ferris…
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China pledges more measures to stimulate innovation
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China will do more in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, and keep on making the Chinese economy more innovative and competitive, Premier Li Keqiang said Monday when delivering a government work report at the annual parliamentary session. The country will empower innovation teams and leaders by seeing that they have…
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Is There A Magic Formula For Scientific Innovation?
Innovation remains a “holy grail” for business where it may unlock new sources of income and in science where it increases our knowledge and promotes the careers and status of the innovators. The work produced in Bell Laboratories in the late 40’s through the 60’s, e.g., the transistor, is legendary for its innovative impact.…
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Canadian Government To Invest $150 Million In Plant-Based Sector
High protein pulses, such as lentils, are a major crop of Western Canada The Canadian Government is set to invest $150 million in the plant-based food sector – in the wake of a national shift toward plant-based diets. The cash injection has come from a $950 million ‘Supercluster Initiative’ aimed at funding innovation in…
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