Tag: silicon valley
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Silicon Valley’s immigration woes could be great news for Canada
The U.S. government is making it more difficult for companies to quickly hire talent from other countries, with a cap on expedited visas for highly skilled workers and a pending plan to overhaul the H-1B visa program. Meanwhile, Canada is testing new, speedier visas. On Monday, the Canadian government started its new program to issue work permits and temporary…
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Couple donates $20 million to encourage innovation at Sutter Health
Do you have $20 million to spare to give to a cause you love? Michael and Judith Gaulke apparently do. The Silicon Valley couple has donated that amount to create the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health. It’s the single largest donation in Sutter’s history, and it’s geared toward breathing air…
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A strategy that will make Canadian innovation flourish
Wal van Lierop is President and CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital. Despite a decade of policies meant to foster entrepreneurship, Canada’s technology industry remains frail. The Conference Board gives Canada a “D” on innovation, ranking us 13th among 16 peer countries. They are surpassing Canada in income per capita, productivity and quality of social programs. Canada is…
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America has become so anti-innovation – it’s economic suicide
If you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company that sells a $400 juicer. Here’s how it works: you plug in a pre-sold packet of diced fruits and vegetables, and the machine transforms it into juice. But it turns out…
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Small Singapore has big ideas about innovation culture
When it comes to innovation, there is no such thing as status quo – you either improve or decline relative to everyone else, and sitting in a comfort zone for too long could prove costly. That is the philosophy of Steve Leonard, the CEO of SGInnovate, the government entity that supports entrepreneurs leading Singapore’s innovation…
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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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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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Embraer lands in the Silicon Valley, with sights on disruptive innovation
San Francisco – CA, USA, March, 14 2017 – Embraer announced today that it is forming innovation teams in Silicon Valley and in Boston, in the United States. The objective is to explore business opportunities in the future of air transportation, with the collaboration of startups, investors, academia, and corporations. The team will seek partnerships…
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Embraer se instala no Vale do Silício de olho em inovações disruptivas
A Embraer anunciou ontem que terá uma equipe de inovação no Vale do Silício e em Boston, nos Estados Unidos. O objetivo é trabalhar em oportunidades futuras para o negócio de transporte aéreo, contando com a colaboração de startups, investidores, academia e corporações. A equipe buscará parcerias que viabilizem novos modelos de negócios e tecnologias…
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