Tag: Innovation

Toyota set to launch world’s first robot city at Japan’s Mount Fuji base in 2025 (Interesting Engineering)

At the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan has launched one of its most ambitious technological experiments, known as Woven City, a fully connected, self-contained...
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Climate Change/Innovation/Growth – Growth through innovation will help fight climate change (The Korea Times)

Robert D. Atkinson In the past decade a growing number of activists and pundits have argued that if we want to save the planet, particularly...
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Diplomacy – Innovazione e sostenibilità. Gli appunti per la diplomazia del futuro di Marco Alberti (Francesco De Palo, Formiche)

Come sarà la diplomazia del futuro? “Diventerà un System Orchestrator, ovvero chi mette assieme parti diverse per valorizzare la forza di ciascuno: parola d’ordine, aprirsi all’interazione...
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Globalization – Is Globalization Harming Innovation? (Dalia Marin, Project-Syndicate)

Globalization encourages innovation, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But emerging evidence suggests that this assumption, like so many economic shibboleths, must be rethough. The...
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Global – Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Dynamic Competition” (Ioana Marinescu, David Teece, John M. Yun, Aurelien Portuese, ITIF)

Market competition is frequently perceived from a static perspective by antitrust enforcers. The reduction of the number of firms, the degradation of the market...
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These 3 start-ups are bringing cutting-edge tech to forest restoration (WEF)

Victoria Masterson The world loses about 15 billion trees a year. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/reforestation-start-ups-technology-trillion-trees/
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Optical links to connect air passengers securely (ESA)

Flight passengers will be able to connect securely to their families and colleagues on Earth via sophisticated laser systems. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Optical_links_to_connect_air_passengers_securely
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(Innovation/Technology) Building a National AI Strategy (WEF)

Speakers: Jennifer Schenker, Özgür Burak Akkol, Mikayil Jabbarov, Alexander Vedyakhin, Mustafa Varank Dozens of governments are planning or have already released artificial intelligence strategies as part of their national growth...
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(Innovation/Technology) Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence (WEF)

Speakers: Irene Tham, Vilas Dhar, Mark Brayan, Haniyeh Mahmoudian, Jason Matheny, Kay Firth-Butterfield, Fayaz King As rapid advances in machine learning increase the scope and scale of AI’s deployment in all aspects...
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(Innovation/Technology) The Next Frontier: Synthetic Biology (WEF)

Speakers: Mariette DiChristina, Genya Dana, Megan Palmer, Margaret A. Hamburg, Matthew Chang, Jason Kelly Synthetic biology, the (re)design of organisms, is a frontier technology with applications in manufacturing, healthcare, energy, information...
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(Innovation/Technology) Technology Governance Outlook (WEF)

Speakers: Sheila Warren, Hiroaki Nakanishi, Marc Benioff, Vivian Balakrishnan, Susan Wojcicki Opening video from Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide of Japan. COVID-19 has accelerated the transition into the age of the Fourth...
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(Innovation/Technology/Spotify) Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019 (TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez Spotify is opening up its personalized playlist, “On Repeat,” to advertising sponsorship. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/spotify-opens-a-second-personalized-playlist-to-sponsors-after-discover-weekly-in-2019/
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(Innovation/Technology/Blockchain) Blockchain and taking the politics out of tech (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Ex-Treasury official and former Coinbase counsel Brian Brooks talks future of crypto with TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/blockchain-and-taking-the-politics-out-of-tech/
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(Innovation/Technology/ConductorOne) ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate your access requests (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure...
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(Innovation/Technology/Swiggy) India’s Swiggy nears $5 billion valuation in new $800 million fundraise (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Swiggy has raised about $800 million in a new financing round, the Indian food delivery startup told employees on Monday, as it looks...
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(Innovation/Technology/FinanZero) FinanZero, Brazil’s free online credit marketplace, raises $7M (TechCrunch)

Marcella McCarthy FinanZero, a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it...
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