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Spending Money, Saving Lives

Karim Karti GE
May 30, 2014
Recent figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are a stark reminder of the many challenges we face in global healthcare today: Over 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year; over 1,000 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; and over 36 million of the 57 million deaths every year are
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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students

May 16, 2014

Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students

“Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand”. This is a famous Chinese proverb that describes how human learns. Most of us would agree that the greatest learning is mostly achieved through real life practice. Reading, sitting in a classroom workshop, and watching someone do it is not enough without actually practicing what we heard or learned.

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Educating Executives for Disruption

Jeremy Jurgens World Economic Forum
April 28, 2014
Much has been written about how technology is transforming education. Still, more has been written about how technology is driving disruption in business. Less explored is a question posed by the intersection of those ideas: how can technology help business leaders to educate themselves about potentially disruptive opportunities and threats?
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Toyota to Replace Robots With…Humans?

Joel Hans Manufacturing Net
April 15, 2014
In the last few decades, Toyota has been a leader in implementing new technology on the plant floor — everything from robotics to automated processes that can churn out parts safely and far faster than with human interaction — and has succeeded because of that. But now the company seems to be turning back toward craftspeople who spend their days forging crankshafts by hand rather than programming machines to do the same work.
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Automakers as Innovators; Cars of the Future are Already Here

Sandy Lobenstein Toyota
April 10, 2014
Automotive engineering is now in an age where new technology is being applied like never before. Automakers are no longer only manufacturers of machinery, we’re also developers and implementers of state-of-the-art technology.
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Using ‘Nonobvious’ Sports Training to Gain a Competitive Edge

Stephen Mitroff Duke University
April 04, 2014
Falling just short of obtaining your goals can be excruciatingly painful. While NC State was likely overjoyed to make it into the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, SMU was subjected to a special kind of pain as being the last team left out. Likewise, Wichita State played an amazing game in the third round, yet fell just one shot short of beating Kentucky—a moment they will remember for a lifetime.
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Technology Driving U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

March 27, 2014
Technological innovation is leading a U.S. manufacturing renaissance that has the potential to bring work back to America for years to come, a new report says. The trend is sustainable if the nation continues to invest in developing advanced manufacturing technologies and a highly skilled workforce.
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Want to Avoid Being Replaced by a Robot? Here's What You Need To Know

Greg Satell
March 21, 2014
Ever since 1962, when the first industrial robot was installed on an assembly line at a General Motors plant in New Jersey, machines have been replacing human workers.  In the decades that came after, just about every industry became automated to a greater or lesser extent.
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After Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade

Robert Maxim Council On Foreign Relations
March 14, 2014
In 1989 the government of Singapore launched an innovative improvement to its trade infrastructure. The project, known as TradeNet, was a “single window” system that allowed exporters and importers to file trade documents and pay government fees through an electronic one-stop shop.
Four years later the United States began to create its own single window, the International Trade Data System (ITDS).
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