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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

Through its Water Quality Protection Projects, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Iowa farmers have improved water quality in watersheds above publicly owned lakes, trout streams, high use recreation areas, drinking water sources, urban developments, and aquifer recharge areas. Precision agricultural techniques.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

In our own innovation consultancy projects, we regularly look at how other companies approached this problem. 2 Reasons: to accelerate the market and to make their technology the standard. Barco proposed to deliver a projection service instead of selling the projectors with a cost per hour projected of LED lights.

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. It becomes our task in delivering alternatives, in new varieties, updates, technology enhancement, or simply recognizing the lifecycle of the existing needs refreshing, changing or altering.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

For example, it will tell you which projects and portfolios deliver higher RoI. If your company cuts innovation spending, but a competitor doesn’t, will you lose your technology leadership position? For example: Early 2000s recession: R&D spending fell by 0.9% in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

New technologies, tools and systems make innovation networks more possible and more influential than ever. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. This is the job of specific innovation project teams and business units. Norton & Company; May 2002. and McDermott, R.; Buchanen, M.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

Disruptive technologies or innovations boost new business models that change the game of existing industries like the space industry (SpaceX), the music industry (Spotify), the film industry (Netflix) or the banking sector (FinTechs), just to name a few. Having only one good idea won’t help companies to survive.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Next-generation information technology. The growing percentage of funds allocated to technology innovation clearly shows China's ambition on innovation leadership (source: Prof. BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002. Electrical power. New-energy automotive. High-end robotics. New materials and composites.

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