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Companies Benefit From The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Can It Boost Countries Too?

Gary Coleman Deloitte
July 07, 2017

By now we can see that the fourth industrial revolution can provide a solid competitive edge for companies who create innovative business models enabled by advanced technologies. But when it comes to national economies, where and how is the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) enhancing competitiveness?



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The Weekend Edition

Forget The Insight Of A Lone Genius – Innovation Is An Evolving Process Of Trial And Error

Edward Wasserman
Eric Scerri
July 02, 2017
Scientific discovery is popularly believed to result from the sheer genius of intellectual stars such as Darwin and Einstein. Their work is often thought to reflect their unique contributions with little or no regard to their own prior experience or to the efforts of their lesser-known predecessors.
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Innovation

Dirty Jobs: How Baltimore’s ‘Mr. Trash Wheel’ Collected 1 Million Pounds of Trash From A Harbor

Adam Lindquist Director Of The Healthy Harbor Initiative Waterfront Partnership Of Baltimore
June 28, 2017

Mr. Trash Wheel— the world’s first sustainably-powered trash collector— has removed over 9 million cigarette butts, nearly 500,000 polystyrene containers and close to 400,000 plastic bottles from Baltimore’s harbor. But is he a match for the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch?" Adam Lindquist, Director of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative, explains.

 

 
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Decoding Industry: a new podcast series to feed your mind

June 12, 2017

The best and the brightest is usually a hyperbolic boast, but it was a data-packed statement of fact at GE’s Decoding Industry event in April.

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Vaguely yours, Beth Comstock

May 24, 2017
In a business world that’s used to implementing successful formulas, how do we make room for discovery? Beth Comstock, Vice Chair of GE has called on her initial training as a biologist, to explain how company cultures can use the idea of emergent properties to allow new and adaptive patterns of operation to form.
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Innovation

The Future Of Travel: New York To Hong Kong In 2050

Bill Danon
May 19, 2017

Everyone knows that the future of transportation involves self-driving cars, and they’re coming to a ride-sharing service near you, possibly sooner than you think.

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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2017
Physicians in Philadelphia have developed an artificial womb, researchers in England built an AI that can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, and MIT engineers designed a robotic 3D printer that can build a house. Once again, science is hitting home runs.
 

This Artificial Womb Could Save Premature Babies

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Innovation

Working The Crowd: This Fuse Will Set The Collective Brain On Fire

Kristin Kloberdanz
April 28, 2017
Fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series are well versed in the trials and tribulations facing coders struggling to write better compression software. That show is fictional, but the problem is very real. It affects movie downloads, live streaming and also industry.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 14, 2017
Extending the AR system to cobots like Baxter or Sawyer from Rethink Robotics will allow the team in Waukesha expand the palette of tasks it covers to the “4Ds — dirty, dangerous, difficult and dull jobs,” Beacham says. “Let’s say the operator is doing assembly work. The cobot may take over and apply adhesive in a complicated pattern. When that’s done, the human jumps back in and does the next step.”
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Australia's change-makers Decoding Industry

April 13, 2017
A king tide of data, workplace change and how to leverage technology for future prosperity were the themes of GE’s Decoding Industry event held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art this week. Ten thought-provoking speakers engaged with 200 leaders from aviation, healthcare, resources, energy, and tech, to negotiate the gap between right now and accelerated innovation.
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