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What Makes Switzerland a Leader in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. There were 873 patent license applications per million of inhabitants in Switzerland back in the year 2015. Switzerland has some world class R&D establishments. Educated workers.

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Managing Energy Transition through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For me, the energy transition that the world is undertaking requires all forms of innovation, to offer technically advanced, as well as breakthrough solutions, to an incredibly complex system of energy delivery. The critical enabler will come from technology and systemic innovation. The societal inhibitor is a real impediment.

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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. It turns out, getting buy-in from the board of directors can be particularly vexing due to the typical board makeup, their strengths, and their skills gaps. Boards Don’t Prioritize Innovation.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time

IdeaScale

There has also been cultural reporting bias in favor of male inventors, despite the countless female innovators involved in some of the biggest technological advances in history. The device is now used internationally to prevent blindness due to cataracts, which affect around 25 million people in the U.S. Marie Curie. Stephanie Kwolek.

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Do we really care about (artificial) intelligence?

Norbert Bol

Sorry for not keeping my promise to blog more in 2020 about responsible technology and artificial intelligence as I wrote in Happy New Year: The new roaring ’20 s. Responsible use of the digital enabled technologies that often inhibit artificial intelligence is still a topic of debate. Here’s what it says , MIT Technology Review.

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The Arrival and Potential of Knowledge Graphs into Our World

Paul Hobcraft

Struggling to get out of the technical jargon, so be ready and have patience. AI is getting to a point where it will drive the next wave of technology disruption. It is recognizing the semantic technologies part that will deliver cognitive solutions that have the real value. Building AI application requires Context.