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  • 23 SCIENCE MINISTERS TO ATTEND INNOVATION MEGA-EVENT IN JERUSALEM

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    “The professionals said to expect only 10 countries to participate,” Akunis said. “This is an unprecedented diplomatic achievement; 23 is a massive number by every parameter.” Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis (R) meets with UK Minister of State for Universities and Science Sam Gyimah (L), February 2018.. (photo credit: Courtesy) An unprecedented number of…

  • Google, Facebook bad for innovation, democracy: Soros

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    DAVOS: Calling Internet “monopolies” such as Google and Facebookan obstacle to innovation, billionaire investor George Soros has warned that social media companies can have adverse consequences on the functioning of democracy. Delivering his remarks at the annual World Economic Forumhere on Thursday, the Hungarian-born American billionaire declared that the days of the US-based IT giants…

  • Canada’s innovation Budget 2017

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    Justin Trudeau’s government has talked a good game on innovation and skills development, but this year’s budget looks like more of the same In some ways, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget is a vanilla-flavoured budget—generally acceptable and unlikely to offend most people. The government stays the course of Budget 2016, expanding on areas like…

  • Open innovation in the public sector 

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    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…