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Report: US Needs to Up Its Game in Race for Clean Energy Investment

April 21, 2014
The United States has fallen behind China as the top destination for clean energy investment, and it will need to take action to remain competitive in the multibillion-dollar sector, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.
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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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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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LNG Could Push Diesel Trains Into History Books

April 16, 2014
Liquefied natural gas could do to diesel-powered locomotives what the latter did to steam engines: put them into the history books.
A report from the Energy Information Administration said that LNG “will play an increasing role in powering freight locomotives in coming years.”
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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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We Don’t Know If Our Patent System is Working

Rebecca Strauss Council On Foreign Relations
April 14, 2014
“Innovation” is a hot buzzword in Washington. In a city gripped by partisanship, being pro-innovation is something everyone can agree on. One of the most direct ways the federal government participates in the innovation economy is through the legal protection of tangible innovations themselves, or patents. Yet incredibly, no one has a good grasp of whether the U.S. patent system is doing what it was intended to do—promote innovation.
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Dealing with ‘Second Place’ in Global Economic Race

Bill Reinsch National Foreign Trade Council
April 11, 2014
“Certainly attitudes in the U.S. are going to have to change, because the U.S. will not permanently be the global leader the way things are going.”
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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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Listening and Learning for Success—What Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs Need

Mary Olushoga Awp Network
April 09, 2014
Women entrepreneurs in Nigeria face a host of cultural and institutional hurdles they must negotiate on their way to success. Despite these obstacles, women are thriving because they are learning from each other’s lessons and listening to voices of those who have gone before them.
Entrepreneurs need to be encouraged. It is not easy to start and sustain a business in places like Lagos; building a sustainable business in Nigeria in general is not easy. Entrepreneurs need to know how the system works so that they can survive this challenging and difficult terrain.
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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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