Tag: Innovation

(Innovation/Technology) Twitter Founder’s Auction of First Tweet Draws $2 Million Bid (VoA)

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is selling his first tweet at auction, with bidding Saturday reaching $2 million in a sign of the appetite for...

(Innovation/Technology) Fear and loathing of cryptocurrencies (ORF)

SHASHIDHAR K.J., SRINATH SRIDHARAN Governments must realise that cryptocurrencies were created as a reaction to neoliberal policies and wholly strive to understand how the state can...

(Pandemic/Innovation/Technology) COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation – here’s how companies can adapt (Forbes,WEF)

Ben Crawford Studies show that the pandemic has led to a 20% surge in total internet usage. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/covid-19-accelerated-digital-transformation-how-companies-can-adapt/

(Innovation/Technology) A 5-step guide to scale responsible AI (WEF)

Lofred Madzou, Danny Lange Deploying AI at scale will remain problematic until companies engage in a fundamental change to become ‘responsible AI’-driven organizations. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/scaling-up-with-responsible-ai-a-5-step-guide-for-companies/

(USA/Universities/Innovation) 5 questions for Korok Ray on the relationship between universities and innovation (AEI)

James Pethokoukis and Korok Ray Are American universities set up to foster innovation? Do higher education institutions do enough to help student and faculty inventions...

(Research/Development/Innovation/USA) Changes and Trends in Research and Development and Its Impact on Innovation (CFR)

Speakers Jonathan Gruber Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Josh Wolfe Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital Presiders James P. Dougherty Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on...

(Big Data/Innovation) Governance for Innovation and Privacy: The Promise of Data Trusts and Regulatory Sandboxes (CIGI)

Chantal Bernier https://www.cigionline.org/articles/governance-innovation-and-privacy-promise-data-trusts-and-regulatory-sandboxes

(Japan) Innovation quality and global collaborations: Insights from Japan (Dany Bahar and Selen Özdoğan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/innovation-quality-and-global-collaborations-insights-from-japan/

(Innovation) We’re witnessing a global surge in innovation. This is how we sustain it (Achim Steiner, WEF)

National governments are struggling with the prospect of post-COVID recession. SMEs, critical to the recovery, need digital support to allow them to innovate. ...

PANDEMIC/INNOVATION – How coronavirus lockdowns can boost innovation (Omar Al-Ubaydli, Al Arabiya)

As the slew of vaccines emerging in record time indicates, there is much truth to the maxim “necessity is the mother of all invention.” https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2020/12/23/How-coronavirus-lockdowns-can-boost-innovation

INNOVATION – Government Striving for New Ways of Working (Ryan Oakes, Nextgov)

Public sector organizations pivoted to new ways of working in the early weeks of the COVID-19 crisis, striving for speed, continuity and responsiveness around...