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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

Falling costs in renewable energy is bringing it within Africa’s reach; yet minimizing the number of people lacking access to electricity, and modernizing and promoting sustainable clean energy across Africa will still require radical innovation improvement. Africa’s MCI history can act as a guide for its electricity market.

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How Will 5G Spur Innovation across Multiple Industries?

IdeaScale

The 5G revolution is here, giving you faster networks than ever before and more opportunities to set innovation trends. This next generation of wireless technology will be more than ten times faster than 4G and reduce latency in connections. Fixed-wireless services that deliver at fiber-like speeds will allow for UHD video streaming.

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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. One thing is certain: if the United States doesn’t move ahead with fintech innovations, others will. Chamber of Commerce.

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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Overview : These awards shows offer a unique cross-section of innovation across multiple industries for 2022. Innovation awards aren’t just fun to observe. They can offer valuable insight into the state of innovation and what trends, technologies, and concerns will drive broader innovation in the future.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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When the Idea is Ahead of the Technology

Destination Innovation

The Zenith Radio Corporation launched the first wireless remote control for TVs in 1955. Motorola brought it to market in 1983 but it was a heavy, clumsy device with a short battery life and very limited coverage. The sad fact is that the real pioneers rarely benefit from their daring innovations.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification in Cars That Advertise

Innovation in Practice

are in the process of developing strategies to maximize wireless capabilities in vehicles for advertising purposes. Telenav’s strategy of developing software which utilizes the dashboard console for marketing purposes is a great example of the innovation template known as Task Unification. Perform these new services?