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US Army's ‘CoCreate’: Supporting Soldier Innovation

Sergeant Major Jose Quinones Jr Ref
January 14, 2014
The U.S. Army wants your ideas—large or small—to help them better equip and prepare its soldiers on the battlefield.  In military jargon the Army is looking for “soldier-focused tactical solutions.”
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Remaking Higher Education: The Maker Lab at Abilene Christian University

Dr John B Weaver Abilene Christian University
January 13, 2014
The innovative promise of higher education is stunted too easily.  Unique student aspirations give way to new student standardization; dreams of transforming the world give way to curricular conformity in the school.  Institutional mechanisms of academic degrees can render a student’s creativity “just another brick in the wall.”
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Is There a Skills Gap? It’s Less Clear-Cut Than You Think

Rebecca Strauss Council On Foreign Relations
January 10, 2014
Closing the “skills gap” is high on the list of priorities for Washington policymakers. But the debate behind the skills gaps—whether it exists, how large it might be, and what to do about it—is much less clear-cut than a casual reading of the papers would suggest.
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Five World Trade Game-Changers for 2014

Kati Suominen
January 09, 2014
The WTO’s trade facilitation deal reached in Bali in early December adds to the past three decades’ dramatic expansion in world trade owing to tariff liberalization, regional integration, lower transport costs, and spread of global supply chains. Now five technology game-changers will erase many of the pending impediments to globalization – yet also give rise to new business and policy challenges:
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2014: Year Of The Open Ecosystem

Greg Satell
January 08, 2014
The most salient aspect of technology is its power to disrupt.  The important innovations are the ones that change our world so profoundly that the previous order becomes not only untenable, but unthinkable.
Yet the true impact begins not with invention, but adoption.  That’s when the second and third-order effects kick in.  After all, the automobile was important not because it ended travel by horse, but because it created suburbs, gas stations and shopping malls.
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Innovation and Technology for International Development

Gadi Ben Yehuda Ibm
January 07, 2014
Mobile technology can act as an accelerator to help communities in developing countries raise their standards of living and offer their residents more opportunities to realize their potential.  It’s a message that’s been overlooked these past few years from the spirited debate on the roles for technology and innovation in international development.
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Africa’s Innovative Spirit: Taking on the World

Jay Ireland GE
December 20, 2013
The word “innovation” was long synonymous with the IT programmers of Silicon Valley or the design engineers of Tokyo. But the world is changing fast and now the latest designs, products and ideas are as likely to come from Accra or Nairobi as from the U.S. or Far East. Africa’s innovative and entrepreneurial spirit is taking on the world – whether it is apps for farmers, medical diagnostic devices, cleaner cooking fuel or new seed varieties, exciting advances are being made every day across the continent.
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Unleashing a Power Trifecta in the Age of Gas

Lorraine Bolsinger GE
December 17, 2013
Natural gas is shifting from a regional and often marginal fuel to becoming a focal point of global energy supply and demand – we call it “the Age of Gas.” Earlier this year, GE predicated that gas consumption will grow by more than a third over current global levels by 2025, allowing for cleaner and less expensive fuel options to power the world.
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Failure as Precursor to Innovation

Mbali Ndandani
November 15, 2013

Creating an environment where failure is not the end of the world isn’t about letting people make silly mistakes, it’s about defining what constitutes smart failure.

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The Innovation Triangle--Defining a Culture of Success

Adam Rasheed GE
November 04, 2013

Leadership’s responsibility is to see the big-picture and appropriately invest in all the areas required to bring a successful innovation to market.

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