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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

We need more women entrepreneurs. The founder and CEO is Nadine Hachach-Haram, an NHS surgeon who is also an entrepreneur and TED speaker. The system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. It was founded by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss in 2009. Nadine Hachach-Haram.

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Focus on the Opportunity, not the Problem.

Destination Innovation

Two groups of engineering students were given a similar task – to design a bicycle rack for a car. The first group was shown an existing but poorly designed roof rack for bicycles. They looked at all the issues with the current design and then set out to come up with something better. He founded Uber.

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We require a more dynamic view of Innovation understanding.

Paul Hobcraft

How do we know the critical skills, competencies and capabilities for innovation? We often miss or fail to ask which skills or attributes are critical to providing a more significant impact for a successful innovation solution. We stifle and lose the real potential of what having the correct dynamics of innovation can offer.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

It means those who live on less than roughly two dollars a day. Yet there are billions of people in our world who live on more than two dollars a day, who are still suffering immensely. Unfortunately, today, we have a system that manages poverty. Then we started funding schools in different communities.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. Matthew Milan, Principal and Design Director with Normative, helps us understand how to generate, identify, frame and use insight effectively. account: iTunes Del.icio.us still apply.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

Progress however, towards the goal of making water available to the more than two billion people who lack access, has been painfully slow despite the fact that studies show a return of $5 to $46 for every dollar spent on clean water intervention. So, I rallied friends together, raised $10,000 and we built a well for the community.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. How a product’s social model is set up can impact not only who contributes, but how much, and why. UX design now means to embrace a whole new set of behaviors and characteristics.

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