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Rail’s on a Roll With Big Data

Peter Thomas GE
March 13, 2014
Some may think trains are just steel wheels on steel rails, but freight rail is a rapidly evolving sector that is increasingly fitted with and connected to innovative 21st-century technology that keeps our economy moving.
As the industry takes its message to lawmakers today during “Railroad Day” on Capitol Hill, the industry is on a roll. Revenue is up 19 percent since 2009 to $80.6 billion, creating 10,000 new directly related jobs and countless other ancillary jobs. Some $21 billion in wages were paid last year alone, a $1 billion increase from the year before.
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Millennials Are Bringing Communication Innovation to Schools

Melissa Moritz Teach For America
March 05, 2014
Those born between 1982 and 2000, commonly known as millennials, belong to a generation full of contradictions.
On the one hand, they’re incredibly deft at helping others. According to Leigh Buchanan’s Meet the Millennials, nearly 70 percent of millennials hold “giving back” and “being civically engaged” as their highest priorities.
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Transforming Communities into Smarter Cities

Tim Paydos Ibm
March 03, 2014
Government officials are constantly facing pressure to do more with less. With smaller budgets, it takes leaders with vision and energy to make strategic investments to improve how their cities function. That’s where smarter cities come in.
One of my favorite anecdotes of how governments and communities can partner to make a smarter city is about using big data and analytics to combat a common urban problem: Potholes.
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Engineering Design 2.0: From Ancient Egypt to the Future of Engineering Design

Adam Rasheed GE
William T Carter GE
February 28, 2014
For all the changes in engineering design, the basic principles have remained the same since the time of Ancient Egypt.
In Ancient Egypt there exists evidence of the basic design process of defining objectives, performing research, specifying requirements, iterating while developing solutions, and prototyping before building the final version. The same process is followed today.
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Defeating the Nemesis of the ‘Innovation Echo Chamber’

Henry Doss T2 Venture Creation
February 20, 2014
[Editor’s Note:  Ideas Lab Contributor Henry Doss conducted the following interview with internationally recognized innovation consultant Alistair Brett as a part of our special series on Innovation.]
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Innovation Surfing, Riding Waves of Change

Scott Gillespie Is An Ecosystem And Venture Architect With The T2 Venture Creation
February 18, 2014
Passionate surfers find secret spots like Mavericks rather than accept the local spots with small waves or the crowded, well-known spots.
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Warren Zevon’s Prescription for Innovation

Henry Doss T2 Venture Creation
February 17, 2014
“Send lawyers, guns, and money… to get me out of this.” ­­– Warren Zevon
When the mythical narrator in the above-quoted Warren Zevon tune found himself in a bit of trouble, he knew he needed three things: “lawyers, guns, and money.”

Innovation, likewise, has its own magic triumvirate solution. But in the case of innovation, it’s not “lawyers, guns and money” – it’s brokers, role models, and risk-takers.
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On The Very Same Road Again

Joseph Kopser Ridescout
February 14, 2014
Transportation services are a hot topic dominating the news today. With the introduction and proliferation of services like Zipcar, Uber, Sidecar, and car2go, the average city dweller has reaped the benefits of a more robust urban transportation infrastructure.
But not all response has been positive.
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‘You Bought It, You Own It’ Not So Fast…

Andrew Mcdiarmid Center For Democracy Technology
February 13, 2014
The phrase “you bought it, you own it,” sounds simple enough, but it turns out that this raises a lot of tricky issues when “it” is a digital good.
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Share and Ride Alike: Mobility Innovation for the Sharing Economy

February 12, 2014
The sharing economy is changing the way we understand transportation on a global scale. The city bus driver sees ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft as a threat to his livelihood; meanwhile, major car manufacturers see the sharing trend jeopardizing private vehicle ownership.
But the rapid pick-up in ridesharing is likely to bridge the distance between people and their destinations, according to transportation technology experts, all while changing the culture of transportation to focus less on exclusivity and more on accessibility and efficiency.
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