GE Innovation Features: Stories, Research, Technology, Solutions
skip to main contentskip to secondary navigationskip to main contentskip to secondary navigationWe’re determined to solve the world’s biggest problems. By putting our collective imagination to work for a better future, we might get there yet. Is it possible to change the world? At GE, we are doing it one idea at a time.
In nanotechnology, bioscience, energy— almost any field under the sun— the brightest scientific minds are at GE Global Research, the world’s first corporate R & D lab. Working to transform our world through innovation, GE researchers filed 2,537 patent applications last year alone.
Introducing the GE WattStation™. Designed in collaboration with industrial designer Yves Behar, GE's smart-charging station is ready to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.
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Charging ahead
GridSMART, a partnership between GE and utility AEP, helps customers make smarter decisions about their power use.
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Making the power grid smarter
Vscan is a powerful new tool with the potential to help redefine the way doctors examine patients.
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Take a Look Inside
GE's health care technologies support the efforts of the volunteer medical team at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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The Doctors’ Olympic Games
Exactly what does a bioscientist or aero technologist work on from nine to five? 20 GE innovators share their day.
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A day in the life of an innovator
GE's donation of critical medical equipment is just the beginning of our commitment to making sustainable health a reality in Cambodia and around the world.
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Health Care in Cambodia
Building upon the natural properties of a garnet gemstone, scientists at GE have created a new material, making the world's first HDCT scanner possible.
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Launch Turning X-rays into Light
Electronic medical records are helping to lower the cost of care while improving the quality of outcomes for more people.
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Launch Together, We Can Make Health Better
The employees of GE are its greatest asset. Over the past 100 years, the Colucciello family has had 20 family members employed by GE, totaling some 270 years of combined experience.
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Launch Five Generations, One GE Family
Go behind the scenes of the “Wrench” TV commercial and meet a few of the GE employees who star on screen and off.
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Launch A Tribute to GE Employees
GE jet engines are powering China's first domestically developed fleet of regional jets.
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Launch Flying High in Shanghai
Because we believe that health is everything, we're making a new commitment to health.
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Health is Everything
Some of our biggest global growth drivers are built right here at our GE Energy site in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Made in Greenville, Powering the World
GE's first ecomagination center will make its home in Masdar City - the first carbon-neutral, zero-emission city in the world.
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The City of the Future
See how we're changing the way people use electricity.
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Launch Building a Smarter Grid
GE’s culture of leadership and continuous learning helps our people and our company make the most of emerging opportunities.
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Launch Lessons in Leadership
Scientists at GE’s Global Research Center are continuously working to find cleaner, more efficient sources of energy and ways to store it.
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Launch Charge It Up
GE’s 130-year tradition of life-changing innovation continues in 2008. Here are a few of the products that are making a difference in our world today.
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Launch Innovations of 2008
GE’s laptop-sized Vivid-i portable ultrasound system helps Canadian cardiologists bring important healthcare diagnostics to the people of Baffin Island.
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Launch Healing Hearts in the Arctic
GE joins aviation enthusiasts from all around the world for a celebration of the passion, innovation, and technology that bring their dreams to life.
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Launch Where Ideas Can Fly
From broadcast to online presentation of more events and athletes, GE and NBC make the Olympic experience more accessible than ever.
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Launch Pushing the Limits
Our innovative approach to philanthropy brings our people, healthcare expertise and technologies to rural areas, making a lasting difference to communities in need.
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Launch Developing Health Globally
Using Google Earth™ see how new GE water processing technologies are bringing fresh water to more people all around the world.
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Launch WaterExplorer for Google Earth™
As the winds of change blow across China, GE is there to help them meet the growing demand for cleaner energy with newer, better wind energy technology.
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Launch Wind Power in China
For 130 years GE has been transforming our lives with innovations that redefine what is possible. Take a closer look at just a few of these life-changing discoveries.
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Launch GE Innovation Timeline
Putting the power of the sun to work with GE solar energy systems, Shafer Vineyards is making history while making wine.
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Launch Photovoltaic Technology
GE’s Early Health initiative focuses on enabling earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of disease, helping people live longer, better lives.
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Launch Healthcare Re-imagined
In Milan, GE is providing innovative new power generation solutions that reduce emissions while meeting the growing demand for electricity.
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Launch Cleaner Power Generation
Sometimes the biggest discoveries come from thinking small. Very small. See how GE is using nanotechnology to make big changes in a variety of products.
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Launch Nanotechnology
With infrastructure work on Olympic venues that will provide Beijing with enduring memories, GE is proud to celebrate the spirit of the Olympic Games.
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Launch GE and the Olympic Games
From new housing developments and business districts to man-made islands and the world’s largest skyscraper, GE is helping this region grow up... fast.
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Launch GE in the Middle East
GE’s long history of aviation innovations is testament to the passion, ingenuity and dedication that go into making the most powerful jet engines of today.
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Launch Aviation: Incredible Views
Small changes are having big results across GE businesses as we work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save money one location at a time.
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Launch GE's Greenhouse Gas Reduction