Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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This air cooling system for the slums uses plastic bottles and requires no electricity

Idea to Value

In Bangladesh, 70% of the population live without regular electricity, often in tin-sided huts which can reach 45°C inside. This simple solution is made from recycled materials and can cool a room by 5 degrees, making life much more bearable. It works by the same underlying physics as a refrigerator, where pushing a gas through a small hole causes a cooling effect once the gas expands again on the other side.

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Will Data Science Make Your Business Instincts Irrelevant?

Faisal Hoque

Here's what you need to know to balance your intuition with the data—now that there's more of it than ever. The post Will Data Science Make Your Business Instincts Irrelevant? appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Excellent review of the latest 2015/2016 innovation consulting reports

Idea to Value

Believe it or not, this isn’t the only innovation website out there, and I’m not the only innovation consultant in the world. Shocking news, I know 😉 There are some excellent other authors out there on the subject, and occasionally they will release something so insightful that it is my duty to let you know about […]. Originally published at Excellent review of the latest 2015/2016 innovation consulting reports.

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Open Innovation Challenge and the Internet of Things

IdeaConnection

Communications and information technology giant Nokia has launched its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge for the fourth year running, and this time round is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). Up for grabs is €100,000 (approx. USD $113,000) incubation prize money to be shared between three winning teams. The winners will also join Nokia’s Innovation Accelerator Program to incubate their ideas within Nokia, access the multinational’s global market and network with investors.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Health for the People, by the People

100%Open

With the Zika virus spreading rapidly in Brazil and beyond, new methods for personal protection, diagnostics, surveillance and mosquito control are urgently needed. It’s great to see an open innovation response to this problem; USAID’s $30m Grand Challenge for Development, ‘Combating Zika and Future Threats’. There is an increasing number of such challenges for public health innovation and it’s interesting to speculate why.

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Innovation Quickie: Action!

Innovation Excellence

Get out. Get input. Get going!

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Research, invention and innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm pissed off today. I'm pissed off because our elected officials continue to denigrate entrepreneurs and business people. Yesterday Nancy Pelosi, the democratic demogoge of Hollywood, lectured people about the iPhone. Steve Jobs and Apple, she claimed, did not create the iPhone. If this is true you must be wondering, well, how did they get all that revenue and profit then?