Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation
Innovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology, behavior, policies or market forces. Innovating life-saving solutions for the world’s greatest health challenges, whether they are products or services, is also not easy because the patterns are complex — and sometimes unknown.
Repowering Myanmar For A Better Future
With great progress, comes even greater demand. With over 74% of Myanmar’s population lacking access to electricity, the need to have an efficient power generation system could not be more important. As a country, it is imperative for Myanmar to build the right infrastructure and partner with the right companies to provide the most efficient technology, and ultimately, cost savings to the people of the Myanmar.
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Scaling Super-conductivity — Q&A with T.J. Wainerdi
Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Help Wanted — Ensuring the Success of Regional Collaborations
Talk of these stubborn gaps often takes my breath away, because the country has worked so hard since the Great Recession to grow jobs and the economy. Conference hotels should provide oxygen tanks for meeting participants seeking to solve the skills gap problem.
David C. Chavern: Ideas May Strike Like Lightning, but Innovation Must Be Cultivated
At the national level, we can and must do more to foster innovation. It will keep our economy humming, our businesses competitive and hiring, our manufacturers producing, our standard of living rising and our wages high.
There are five essential ingredients for innovation:
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Knowledge at work in 2014: The Global Brain
Steve Vamos Non-executive Director, Telstra
Microscopic 'Walkers' Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces
Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.
Nature has developed a wide variety of methods for guiding particular cells, enzymes, and molecules to specific structures inside the body: White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection, while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound. But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult.
Great minds and technology drive a new era of innovation
