Categoria: innovation
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Escolas de negócios precisam unir cientistas, empreendedores e alunos
Transformar ciência e inovação em negócios, garantir que as empresas não se percam nos últimos modismos do mundo dos negócios e ensinar gestores a identificar e administrar riscos. Em um mundo cada vez mais acelerado e incerto, esses são alguns dos papéis que as escolas de negócios devem assumir, na opinião de Tiff Macklem, reitor…
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3M Launches North American Roadshow to Demonstrate Transportation Safety Innovation
3M’s Transportation Safety Division today announced the launch of a nearly 50-city North American roadshow, traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada to showcase 3M road safety technology and innovation. Launching on January 28, 2018, the 3M Transportation Safety Roadshow Truck will offer interactive experiences featuring hands-on, in-person, and virtual demonstrations of innovative 3M technologies…
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Six European countries make the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index top 10
View of the old town in Stockholm, Sweden. Sweden is the most innovative economy in Europe, according to Bloomberg. Image: Scanrail1/Shutterstock European countries make up more than 50pc of the world’s 10 most innovative economies. The Bloomberg Innovation Index for 2018 has been released, and it shows a strong outlook for a lot of European…
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Moedas turns to Macron to build support for European Innovation Council
EU research commissioner Carlos Moedas has enlisted the help of French president Emmanuel Macron to pave the way to setting up the new European Innovation Council (EIC). Moedas presented a slightly updated list of recommendations for the EIC on Wednesday to Macron during a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The commissioner…
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France Creates $13 Billion Disruptive Innovation Fund, Hopes To Become The Next Startup Republic
France is gaining momentum in its quest to become the next great producer of technology startups. Last year, it outstripped the UK in the overall number of technology startup investment deals for the first time in five years. Although the total amount of money invested in the UK’s tech sector was over twice higher than France,…
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Disrupt or be disrupted – Experimentation is the key to innovation
Business longevity is no longer a given. And the concept that ‘what got us here, will get us there’ simply no longer applies in today’s disrupted environment – just consider the 50 per cent of Fortune 500 companies that have dropped off the list since 2000. The way businesses operate is changing fundamentally, from customer…
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Research Explores The Best Era For Innovation
I wrote recently about a study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research that highlighted how truly novel ideas are not only harder and harder to come by, but they tend to be ever more expensive to explore. It creates the impression that our innovative capabilities pale in comparison to those of bygone eras.…
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CES 2018: A STORY OF INNOVATION
Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg What’s really new at CES 2018? This year, CES will be a gathering of professionals from almost every industry. Together they will architect the technological evolution of human interaction and communication. CES has transcended its “consumer electronics show” initialism, and now it tells a story of innovation unlike any we’ve seen before.…
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Q&A: L’Oréal’s Head of Innovation Labs on What’s Working and Not Working With Wearables
L’Oréal thinks the big future of wearables is getting smaller. Specifically, wearables will be the size of one of your fingernails. Literally. Two years ago, L’Oréal launched a heart-shaped patch called My UV Patch with La Roche-Posay sunscreen that sticks to skin and uses Bluetooth technology to push data about a person’s exposure to UV…
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The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation
Sure, fine, maybe it’s a bubble. OK it’s definitely a bubble, but that’s a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment in infrastructure, which breeds real innovation. Right? Look at the dot-com boom. A lot of people lost a whole lot of paper money, but it brought us a cheap worldwide fiber backbone…
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