From science to business” What is one way to grow businesses and address companies? unemployment crises? One answer according to Georges Haour, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD, is partnership between firms and universities.
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MIT Sloan School of Management Dean David C. Schmittlein, in an interview with The Huffington Post published earlier this week, made an interesting observation about how society’s expectations of businesses are changing in important ways. Noted Schmittlein:
“The social contract that businesses, organizations in general, have with the world is changing, and [...]
Innovation Africa: I am impressed with the objectives of the second Science with Africa conference. These three objectives are exactly what is needed to make research, invention and new practices to innovation. It highlights the fact that innovation is a multi-stage process.
What is UNECA doing to support research in Africa?
There are a number [...]
Apple Cup rivals collaborate on world’s main fruit crop
PULLMAN, Wash. — An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics.
The availability of a genome sequence for apple will allow scientists to more [...]
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New York Times (August 14, 2010) – What works in the innovation game? No single formula, to be sure. But some recent interviews with executives, consultants and academics can be distilled into three recommendations: think broadly, borrow from the entrepreneurial Silicon Valley model, and [...]
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