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How University Collaborations Can Drive Private Sector Innovation

Idea to Value

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. In exchange for financing and mentorship, an established business can be at the forefront of new products, models, and technologies.

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Green finance through shared savings

Norbert Bol

Last week I wrote about the “ green finance gap “, where investments in green technology suffer from a lack of financial resources and less attractive risk-return expectations compared to other investments. As discussed earlier there are alternatives to invest in green technologies in a supply chain. Norbert Bol.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

The value of opening up and embracing Ecosystems in design and thinking is that you can attract diverse expertise and knowledge into fresh partnerships and collaborations that can piece together radically different value propositions and shift competitors’ positioning. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. Proximie , based in London, develops remote surgery technology using augmented reality. The company has raised over £37 m in equity finance so far, across three funding rounds, and has been awarded grants from Innovate UK.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

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Is finance too low-tech to support sustainability innovations?

Norbert Bol

Knowledge from financial experts, technological experts and other stakeholders. My conclusion is that low-tech finance will not endure in a society where there is a definite urge for more sustainability. Integrated finance will lead to better investment decision making that is more sustainable. Norbert Bol. Literature.