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Why Fintech Needs the Right Regulation to Help Drive Innovation

Business and Tech

Tom Quaadman Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness , U.S. Many point-of-sale systems rely on a wireless chip instead of a customer physically swiping their card. Contactless payment and digital currencies are promising technologies that are expanding both in the United States and internationally.

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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses

Daniel Burrus

New multibillion-dollar businesses will appear that didn’t exist before due to 5G wireless technology. The first generation (1G) of wireless came with the introduction of cell phones constrained to phone calls and high-level executives. This generation of wireless technology is already being deployed in major cities in the U.S.

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How to Address the Supply-Chain Staffing Crisis

Harvard Business Review

For small to medium enterprises, this means margins may be squeezed to the point to where they can no longer compete in today’s hyper-competitive global marketplace. In addition, the costs of producing materials, manufacturing goods, and providing services is rising due to labor costs.

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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Last year’s winners included IBM’s autonomous ship, Origin Wireless’ remote patient monitoring system, and the fifth-generation Waymo Driver. Announced in May and run by Harvard Innovation Labs , this competition is open to both students and alumni who have made substantial progress in ventures that fit the yearly theme of the PIC.

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5G: what technologies change with increasing speed

mjvinnovation

With 5G, data transmitted over wireless broadband connections can reach rates of up to 20 Gbps in some estimates – exceeding wired network speeds – and also provide a latency of 1 millisecond or less for uses that require real-time feedback. Do you know exactly what it is and how 5G works? What will change in relation to 4G.

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5G Is Far Bigger Than Faster Smartphones

Daniel Burrus

The advantage of a Hard Trend is that you can identify disruptions before they disrupt and create a strategy to become a positive disruptor, creating the transformations that need to happen to increase your relevance and competitive advantage. 5G as a Hard Trend. My advice: don’t miss one of the biggest opportunities of the decade.

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2019 USPTO Patent Statistics: Breaking the Trend

Anaqua

Other technologies, such as wireless communications were also high on that list. Business alignment will lead to not only more focused patenting strategies, but also more effective plans for pruning, licensing, and competitive actions. So are organizations getting more innovative? Download Now.

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