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#2,078 – China’s Weather Modification System

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Earlier this month, China announced plans to expand its rainmaking capabilities to cover nearly 60% of the country by 2025. Details are sketchy, but fears are rising about the potential military uses of these capabilities, and their effects on an already changing climate. Humans have dreamed of controlling the weather for millennia.

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Innovation: How to Recruit and Retain Top Millennial Talent

Idea to Value

However, the Pew Research Center specifically delineates Millennials as people ages 18-34 in 2015. [2] million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9 million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9 4] Now that’s a staggering statistic!

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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.”. Census Bureau. million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). How to Fight the Brain Drain when Baby Boomers Retire. history.

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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

Imaginatik

New sources of value, and distinctive market impact results from seeing – and executing – on what few have - in response to changing circumstances, shifts in technology and business affordances… and asking new (types of) questions. The underlying question for these scenarios was, what is the global economy likely to look like in 2025.

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Digitization and digital transformation – an overview of the most important topics from the month of November

etventure

In the area of e-government, Germany had actually hoped to be the front runner in Europe by 2015. In 2015, one in five votes were cast digitally.”. million traditional jobs will disappear in Germany by 2025.” Yet according to the European Commission, out of all the EU countries, Germany is currently only ranked 18 th.

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New Energy for Climate Innovation

Outside Innovation

The United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Paris from November 30 to December 12th, 2015, just a week after major terrorist attacks across the city. Why is Climate Change a "Customer" Concern? But something important has happened.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. But perhaps equity-based crowdfunding is the model that will change the way start-ups raise money in the early future.