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New Media Gallery

Phil McKinney

At two 11-foot-wide interactive touch walls, visitors were encouraged to explore dozens of important news events and viral videos, including the first Twitter reports of the 2008 China earthquake and the Facebook posts that fueled the Egyptian revolution in 2011.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. As reported in the Economist, in the USA the filling of university application forms for poor students was made easier by pre-filling the forms with data from other sources.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. According to a study reported in Nature ‘comparing discoveries made before 1905 with after 1985, the average age at which physicists made their discoveries rose from 37 to 50.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. “Fueled by teacher shortages,” we’re told in a recent article in The74 , “Zoom-in-a-Room” is making a comeback. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

In “ The Creativity Crisis (2011) ” I reported that American creativity declined from the 1990s to 2008. Since 2008, my research reveals that the Creativity Crisis has grown worse. Results of The 2017 Creativity Crisis Study.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Maribel Lopez Founder and Principal Analyst, Lopez Research LLC

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

After several technology marketing and market research industry analyst roles, I took the leap and created my own independent analyst practice in 2008. My finance background provided a solid foundation for technology forecasting while working in corporate development and market intelligence helped me understand strategic planning.

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

The recent reporting back on the development of the energy transition we are undertaking seems depressing reading. The level of innovation intensity within the Energy Transition is a fascinating one and one I continually place more and more a focus upon. We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption.

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