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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

And it happened in large part due to a drive for innovation and a desire to take the space program to the public. Exploring space offered a two-fold opportunity; it had promise for both military and civilian technological advancement and an invaluable demonstration of prowess on the world stage. The Roots Of A Private Space Sector.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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The Future of Jobs —Anticipate Job Needs in an Increasingly Tech-focused Economy

Daniel Burrus

As the Three Accelerators (bandwidth, processing power, and storage) grow at an exponential pace, new positions are emerging in the tech sector, and traditional jobs are getting tech-related overhauls. The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure.”

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The Future of Jobs —Anticipate Job Needs in an Increasingly Tech-focused Economy

Daniel Burrus

As the Three Accelerators (bandwidth, processing power, and storage) grow at an exponential pace, new positions are emerging in the tech sector, and traditional jobs are getting tech-related overhauls. The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure.”

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Managing Energy Transition through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For me, the energy transition that the world is undertaking requires all forms of innovation, to offer technically advanced, as well as breakthrough solutions, to an incredibly complex system of energy delivery. The growing concern today is we are not raising the deployment rate; it is currently far too slow to meet the potential by 2050.

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General Electric’s multi-billion dollar mistake

The Inovo Group

The author tells the story of how GE doubled down on its investment in traditional, fossil fuel energy generation with the 2015 purchase of Alstom for $13B just one month before the start of the meeting in Paris that would result in the Paris climate accord. The result was disastrous.

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Peet van Biljon

Innovation 360 Group

Peet is a well-rounded international executive with deep consulting, high-tech and advanced industry experience. Peet managed McKinsey & Company’s global innovation practice from 2010 to 2015 where he served clients on innovation across a breadth of industries. Areas of expertise. Business model innovation and redesign.