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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 18, 2016
This week, we’ve learned how scientists are gathering insights from sharks on regenerating human teeth, using cotton candy machines to spin out artificial tissue and teaching a man to wiggle prosthetic fingers solely with the power of his thoughts. Take a look.
 

 

Running Will Shrink Your Gut And Grow Your Brain
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Innovation

GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List

Tomas Kellner
February 17, 2016
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very top), Uber and Alphabet.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 11, 2016
A number of people, including reportedly Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, have had their corpses frozen in the hope that they can be revived in the future. This process, called cryopreservation, presents many challenges, chief among them keeping the delicate structure of the brain intact. But that may be changing. Our haul this week includes that story, plus tales of the world’s fastest data line, gravity waves and more.
A Homerun For Ted Williams?
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Electrification Software

Ajay Banga: Why It's Possible to Innovate Without Sacrificing Data Privacy and Security

Ajay Banga Ceo Of Mastercard
February 11, 2016

Data privacy and security don’t have come at the expense of innovation or economic growth — they’re instrumental in driving both.

 

How can we maximize the good that can come from the responsible use of data, while minimizing the inherent risks of data to privacy and security? This is one of the central questions of our time in an age increasingly driven by big data.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 04, 2016
From contact lenses that double as computer screens to roads in France paved with solar panels, the past week brought a grab bag of breakthroughs, including a mushroom burial suit that turns bodies into composts. Here’s the haul.
 

Honey, I Shrunk Google Glass
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Lean Startup

Why Every Business Needs to Become a Startup — Interview with Eric Ries

Eric Ries Entrepreneur And Author Of The Lean Startup
January 27, 2016

Amid a growing fear of “Digital Darwinism,” executives are embracing the startup ethos to stay competitive in the fast-paced global economy.

 
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Innovation

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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best of 2015

Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
January 04, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet traveled to the high plains of Colorado to document how GE was testing its most advanced locomotive, pilot and photographer Adam Senatori visited three airshows on as many continents to get close to the latest planes powered by GE jet engines, and Chris New climbed to the top of an experimental wind turbine in the Mojave desert.
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Innovation economies: What’s the secret sauce?

December 29, 2015
As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull seeks to fire an ideas boom with his Innovation Statement, GEreports scans the globe for success stories on the innovation stage. What can we learn from other nations’ policies?
Australia's education system is sound—ranking 14th among OECD countries—and it boasts five of the top 50 universities in the world, but our report card suggests we "Could do better." Could we grow Fins?
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An innovation party!

December 22, 2015

Food for thought from ad exec, adventurer and Redesign My Brain star Todd Sampson: “We are at the foothills of what the brain can do; we are just beginning to understand this magnificent thing we have in our head.”
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