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Elisabeth B. Kvalheim: Energy Collaboration Key to Competing in a Low-Carbon World

Elisabeth B Kvalheim Chief Technology Officer Statoil
February 21, 2016

For the oil & gas industry, collaboration means competitiveness in tomorrow’s low-carbon reality.

 

The future of energy is heavily dependent on the collective ability — and determination — of the oil and gas industry itself to evolve and stay competitive in tomorrow’s low-carbon reality.

And to stay competitive — over the longer term — we need to drive simplification, standardization and productivity, but also radical innovation. The challenge is too large for any one company to tackle alone.
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Scientists Eye Next-Gen Medical Materials to Cure Hydraulic Fracturing’s Need for Sand

August 10, 2015
William Blake could see a world in a grain of sand. Sumitra Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of the Canadian smart materials company Bioastra Technologies Inc., has a similar disposition.
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Mark Muro, Scott Andes and Matthew Stepp: Department of Energy’s National Labs Can Also Be Regional Hubs

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Matthew Stepp Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
Mark Muro Brookings
September 24, 2014
The Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories are a $12.5 billion network of potentially transformative basic and applied R&D hubs located in or near many of the nation’s metropolitan areas. However, the labs are today underutilized as true economic assets.
 

How can they be better leveraged?

There are lots of ideas out there, but as we argue in a new paper, one of the most effective ways for the labs to increase their economic impact is for them to “go local” and engage more in the advanced industry ecosystems within which they reside.
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Better Water Through Science—Open Innovation’s Hunt for Freshwater

Dr Rashid Khan Aramco Entrepreneurship
April 18, 2014
New processes and technologies, developed through an open innovation platform, could springboard desalination from the margin to the mainstream of a global strategy to combat water scarcity.
Helping to accelerate the hunt for those breakthroughs is a new $200,000 incentive in the form of an open innovation challenge.
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Hold the Salt: Help Find A Better Way to Drink From the Ocean

April 15, 2014
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