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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

1991: Michael saw the value in big data before it was big and made Brunner’s first acquisition, a database marketing firm . 2011: Michael helped launch BHiveLab, an in-house technology incubator that has become a thought-leader throughout the industry .

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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. The role of big data and data mining.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

The Chinese administration, through its various regional branches, is focusing on the promotion of strategic emerging industries in these areas, according them preferential treatment with subsidies, tax breaks, bank lending and direct financing. Source: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Celent).

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Remembering

Technology Created

Would not the study of Mobility, Big Data, Cloud, Social Media and Clean Energy be a much wiser investment of our time? Or is it the popularization of funding platforms like KickStarter that is leading to a new industrialization? Newsweek (March 20, 2011), [link]. [2] Napoleon said “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

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Tech Disruptor – The Process Mining Unicorn Celonis

ITONICS

The students applied data mining to detect insights and patterns that established companies are struggling to identify. The startup was founded in 2011 and soon became one of Germany’s fastest-growing tech firms headquartered in Munich, Germany. What makes the difference? Celonis automates the process. How do they make money?

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5 Ways FinTech Will Disrupt Your Company

Planview

At its core are the power of digital currencies, sophisticated data collection and analysis and other emerging technologies, which can be leveraged to deliver financial services with greater speed, convenience and flexibility than ever before. billion in 2011 to $20.3 Leveraging Big Data. billion in 2015.

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The Life Sciences Industry: Decision Making from Batch to Continuum

IdeaScale

The life science industry is close to a significant transformation. Digital capabilities and big data is transforming everything from discovery to commercialization. In the same survey they are reported to be more worried than CEOs of other sectors about disruption to their Industry.