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How to fight climate change with innovative business models

The BMI Lab Blog

Due to its complexity, there is no easy, quick-fix solution to address it. It spans from new technologies over new business models all the way to consumer readiness and societal acceptance. What role do new technologies play? Experts agree that climate change is clearly linked to Green-House-Gas (GHG) emissions.

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What you need to know about India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0

hackerearth

After a not-so promising start at the beginning of this decade, India has been climbing up the Global Innovation Index ( GII ) rankings in the last couple of years—moving to from 81 in 2015 to 60 in 2017. Established by the Department of Science and Technology (Government of India), IIGP 2.0 IIT Bombay and MIT are partners as well.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

In 2014 Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, and it is now on target to hit one billion active users by the end of 2015. The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. In 2015, they filed for bankruptcy, finally ceding their throne to mobile rideshares like Uber and Lyft. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down. Are you safe?

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Overcoming the barriers to innovation in the legal sector

Idea Drop

In 2015, only 28 per cent of in-house legal clients surveyed for the Best Legal Adviser Report said innovation in their law firms was important whereas in 2016 this rose hugely to 62 per cent.” Unprecedented advances in new technologies are piling on the pressure for firms to remain current and up-to-date.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360 Group

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 3: INNOVATION SYSTEM FROM IDEATION TO GOVERNANCE. World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The chapters ahead lead you all the way from initial ideation to implementation to compliance and governance.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 3: INNOVATION SYSTEM FROM IDEATION TO GOVERNANCE. World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The chapters ahead lead you all the way from initial ideation to implementation to compliance and governance.