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Welcome to the Era of the Hardware Startup

Beth Comstock GE
February 06, 2014
As new technologies go, 3D printing is a bit of an attention hog. In recent years, we’ve seen printers with increasingly amazing capabilities: from ones that extrude plastic to create small objects to machines with lasers that melt metal powder into amazingly intricate jet engine parts.
But the cool factor of 3D printing sometimes obscures a movement in manufacturing that could have an even bigger impact: platforms that help us share ideas, suppliers and marketplaces. That emerging network is why I’m optimistic that 2014 marks the rise of the hardware startup.
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Innovate With Your Hands, Old School

Michael Graber Southern Growth Studio
Jocelyn Atkinson Southern Growth Studio
February 05, 2014
While the industrial revolution encouraged efficiency, it led to the decline of hand-made creations. We stopped tinkering altogether and started simply operating machines, becoming inherently less ingenious.
Over the past century, new product development hinged on access to expensive machines that were generally out of reach for the individual. Thus, only companies with the cutting edge equipment could achieve new production development and innovation.
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The Real Challenges to Growth

Michael Spence Nyus Stern School Of Business
February 04, 2014
Advanced economies’ experience since the 2008 financial crisis has spurred a rapidly evolving discussion of growth, employment, and income inequality. That should come as no surprise: For those who expected a relatively rapid post-crisis recovery, the more things stay the same, the more they change.
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Rewarding Innovations that Reduce Head Injury Risk in Sports

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
Roger Goodell Is Commissioner Of The Nfl
January 31, 2014
This is the time of the year when the eyes of fans and media are trained squarely on the best two teams in football.
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Is Cancer Research and Treatment Moving From Evolution To Revolution?

Dr Len Lichtenfeld American Cancer Society
January 30, 2014
Is our evolution becoming a revolution? Am I in danger of becoming a victim of the same “hope and hype” that I derided as a young oncologist in the 1970s and ‘80s and is now the focus of criticism around recent glowing media reports touting the successes of cancer research and treatment?

Manufacturing Institutes: A Key to Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
January 30, 2014
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama announced that his Administration will launch six new Institutes of Manufacturing Innovation—joining ones already established to promote innovation in additive manufacturing in Youngstown, Ohio and in next-generation power electronics manufacturing in Raleigh, North Carolina—as part of a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
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Fueling Transition to Next Generation Fuel Cell Vehicles

Tom Stricker Toyota Motor North America Inc
January 30, 2014
A decade from now, the phrase “eat my dust” could very well be replaced by “eat my water vapor,” due in large part by the commercial success of next generation fuel cell vehicles.
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Global Learning Revolution at the Nexus

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 24, 2014
At the nexus of the four topics contemplated this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos—disruptive innovation, inclusive growth, society’s new expectations, and preparing for a world of nine billion—sits the idea of a Global Learning Revolution. Technology is disrupting traditional models of classroom education. But it also has the power to offer billions around the globe access to a first-class education and the hope for economic advancement.  Business plus government plus academia plus NGOs—working together—have the opportunity to bring this global learning revolution to life.

Facebook, Games and the Power of Failure

Rina Onur Peak Games
January 24, 2014
Disruptive innovators must be willing to fail. This a lesson you pick up from spending time in Palo Alto, California – that little corner of the world from where so many world-changing companies have emerged. There is a profound sense of freedom there that comes from a cultural belief that it’s okay to try and fail, because you can always try again. I believe we need more of that freedom, not only in my country, Turkey, but across Europe.
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‘The Little Hospital That Could’: Confronting Diabetes in the Delta and Beyond

Billy Marlow North Sunflower Medical Center
January 23, 2014
The percentage of people in Mississippi aged 18 or greater who report they have been told they have diabetes is 11.3 percent, according to the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 2010.
In the Mississippi Delta, the problem is expounded by issues such as obesity, inactivity, familial history and poverty. In Sunflower County, 13.8 percent of the population has been diagnosed with diabetes, with an estimated one-third of the population currently unaware they may have the disease.
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