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Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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Daintree national spark: GE’s Australian acquisition

May 18, 2016
In April this year, Current, powered by GE, a startup taking innovative, agile approaches to streamlining energy solutions for customers, acquired Australian-founded Daintree Networks for $100 million.
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A Successful Startup Approach Is About Answering the Right Questions — Interview with Eric Ries

Eric Ries Entrepreneur And Author Of The Lean Startup
April 10, 2016

It’s not enough to simply “get” the startup mentality. Executives who want to use lean startup principles to compete in today’s fast-paced economy must do the hard work needed to transform their companies.

 

Every company seems to be a startup these days — or at least they try to act more like one.
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David Kidder: Taming Big To Bigger — Fostering New to Big

David S Kidder Author Of The Startup Playbook Co Founder Of Bionic
January 24, 2016

The Fortune 500’s success at “optimizing at will” has come at a cost. To survive in today’s fast-paced global economy, it’s time to focus the ability to “grow at will.” You need to install a Growth Operating System.

 

Ask a Fortune 500 CEO, “How many $50 million companies did you launch last year?” The answer should be: “many.” A great company should be teeming with growth. But more likely than not, the answer you’ll get is: “zero.”
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Startups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global Sellout Crowd

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for the people who wanted to work for them,” says Riku Mäkelä, who studies business and engineering at Aalto. “But when they started talking to young entrepreneurs, they realized that this was a Europe-wide problem. They decided to do something about it.”
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The Rise of Emerging Market Startups

Ryan Kaiser Booz Allen Hamilton
June 20, 2014
Startups are playing a larger role in almost every major company’s innovation strategy.
According to the 2014 GE Global Innovation Barometer, which surveyed 3,200 innovation executives in businesses of various sizes and industries across the globe, 85 percent said their companies were working on strategies to create partnerships with startups and entrepreneurs.
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Why Collaboration with Startups is the Future

Evan Burfield 1776
June 17, 2014
It seems like every week another major global corporation is partnering with an accelerator or acquiring an early-stage startup. Nike, Kaplan, Pearson, Sprint, MasterCard, Lloyds of London, GE, Booz Allen, Coca-Cola, MedStar, and more have embraced collaboration with startups as a key element of their innovation strategy.
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The Next Industrial Revolution

Scott Case Main Street Genome
April 17, 2014
We are on the threshold of a major American industrial resurgence over the next decade. New technologies, design methodologies, and demand are leading the way, and the U.S. economy is well-positioned to take advantage of them.
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Forget Innovation, Who Is Your Chief Disruption Officer?

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 08, 2014
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
“Everything is turned upside down!” the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. “Five years ago it was not like this!” he cries.

The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
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Where are the Women in the App Economy?

Neelie Kroes European Commission
March 12, 2014
All over the world, the digital economy and in particular the app sector are booming. The rest of the economy needs that boost.
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