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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 system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. Nadine Hachach-Haram. We need more women entrepreneurs.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

In the UN’s first ever assessment of water security in Africa, around half a billion people are in areas designated “ water insecure.” . As the people on the ground design and develop their solutions, they pull in the appropriate resources necessary to make the solutions sustainable. million people since 2009.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. The rise of digital technologies poses many challenges and opportunities for ethnographic research. Can you describe how your research process was structured for this writing effort? I think Second Life already has.

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Nikon is a crown jewel of Japanese engineering and imaging technology, and yet a lack of diversity resulted in a camera Japanese people couldn’t use. Leaving aside the embarrassment, Nikon cut itself off from over a billion customers, all thanks to a simple lack of diversity in the product design concept.

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Strategic goals and design principles for establishing innovation centres

Innovation 360

Strategic goals and design principles for establishing innovation centres. However, ignoring innovation and the capability it can give an organization is not a viable option in today’s marketplace, so the question is how can we better design such capabilities to drive forward innovation? Adopt and adapt new technologies.

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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. 2009, stating: “the vast majority of real-life entrepreneurs around the world aren’t innovators.

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Strategic goals and design principles for establishing innovation centres

Innovation 360 Group

However, ignoring innovation and the capability it can give an organization is not a viable option in today’s marketplace, so the question is how can we better design such capabilities to drive forward innovation? Steve Coley defined in 2009 how innovation can be divided into three parallel horizons, each evolving along a predictable S-curve.

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