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Water4: market-creating innovation at the heart of Sierra Leone

Christensen Institute

In addition, fewer than 15% of countries surveyed in the 2019 UN GLAAS report had the financial or human capacity to implement their plans for safe drinking water. . Estimates suggest that $260 billion is lost globally each year due to lack of basic water and sanitation. . million people since 2008.

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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. We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. The IEA assesses the status of 46 critical energy technologies and sectors and offers some general advice on how to get “on track” with this SDS approach.

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What a recent HBR article gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

Christensen and colleagues 1 called them “innovation killers” in a 2008 HBR article and earlier work 2 highlights similar issues. A plethora of other factors should inform decision makers judgement about whether an innovation project is attractive—strategic fit, technical feasibility, strength and uniqueness of the value proposition, etc.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. structured ambidexterity; O’Reilly & Tushman, 2008; i.e. contextual ambidexterity; Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004).

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Applying AI and Machine Learning to Patent Data Analysis

Yet2

For example, patent landscapes created with the assistance of text clustering methods were already commonly available before 2008. Patent search, patent review, and many other type of patent work are being changed by modern AI technology.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science , a non-profit which continues to promote STEM literacy, with a particular focus on getting girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Lawrence eventually transitioned to Lana Wachowski in 2008, and was the first major Hollywood director to come out as transgender.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). 21st Century is about all of us, using the breakneck speed connectivity that technology provides, to do GOOD things together for a better future. Now, how about these? Leadership Insights 1.