Tag: innovation
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Biomedical innovation depends on immigrants’ contributions
Johannes Fruehauf, MD, is the co-founder and president of LabCentral in Cambridge He said: I am an immigrant who, like many of my immigrant colleagues, feels proud to be contributing to my new country by working hard and creating new jobs for others. Yet our stories — indeed our very existence — make some people in government uncomfortable.…
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Biopharma Innovation — Value At Any Price?
In March I attended The Conference Forum’s R&D Leadership Summit. One of the panels that provided a great deal of insight involved executives discussing how to assess and create value for patients, payors, regulators, and society. This event employs the Chatham House Rule, which means “Neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that…
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Citi appoints new innovation head for Dublin lab
Citi has appointed a senior banker from its Turkey business to head up the bank’s innovation lab in Dublin. Sample the FT’s top stories for a week You select the topic, we deliver the news. Select topic Enter email addressInvalid email Sign up By signing up you confirm that you have read and agree to…
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Startup Canada Innovation Forum 18 may
Are you one of Canada’s top industry executives? Register to attend the Startup Canada Innovation Forum in Toronto on May 18, and build the future of Canada’s small business economy. This exclusive event brings together, celebrates and creates a platform for influential executives, high-growth entrepreneurs and government decision makers to share and spread ideas on the role of industry in building…
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People, not machines, will drive 21st Century innovation
The rise of industry 4.0 is set to transform manufacturing (Pic: Siemens) Whilst smart machinery may outperform humans on many levels, concerns that robots will put us all out of work are unfounded writes Olly Dmitriev, CEO of Vert Rotors. Smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 is redefining manufacturing but it is the people behind the technology…
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Does Creativity Breed Inequality in Cities?
In 2002, Richard Florida became America’s best known urbanist with the publication of his book, The Rise of the Creative Class. In it, Florida posited that the “creative class,” a group which included artists, scientists and engineers, as well as educated knowledge sector professionals such as lawyers and finance workers, was the main driver of cultural…
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Canadian Innovation: How to get back in the game
Lakshmi Raj had almost everything she needed to grow her company. She had the idea (a cloud-based time-tracking software for businesses), the money ($22 million raised since launching in 1995), and the tech talent (155 software engineers). But she was missing one very important component: a robust marketing team. Raj’s company, Replicon, is based in…
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How to innovate for the next 100 years
Entrepreneurs doing VC pitching are providing solutions to a problem they solve in a market. When you are really good at entrepreneurship, you begin to see how things that are not even close to sounding like the same problem can be resolved by the same solution. This is how innovation starts. Large institutions are racing to open…
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Empty talk is killing on innovation is killing Canada’s economic prosperity
Jim Balsillie is former co-CEO of BlackBerry and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. If overuse of the word “innovation” was our only problem, Canadians would not have much to fear. What we should fear is a stubborn reliance on 19th- and 20th-century policy strategies that have nothing to do with how wealth…
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