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Integrating Heritage and Innovation: 7 Architectural Installations at Dubai Design Week 2023
Integrating Heritage and Innovation: 7 Architectural Installations at Dubai Design Week 2023 Of Palm / Abdalla Almula. Image Courtesy of Abdalla Almula ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1009657/integrating-heritage-and-innovation-7-architectural-installations-at-dubai-design-week-2023 Clipboard“COPY”Copy Happening between November 7 and 12, Dubai Design Week 2023 brought together over 500 designers, architects, and creative practitioners to explore the relationship between…
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(China Economic Roundtable) China’s private firms display strong innovation capability
BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — China’s private firms have shown strong innovation capability in pursuing high-quality development, guest speakers told the China Economic Roundtable hosted by Xinhua News Agency. Private firms have become the main force in efforts and initiatives that feature specialization, refinement, uniqueness and innovation, said Bai Jingwei, co-founder of Qitan Tech. “Such…
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MIT digital innovation guru says Walmart, JPMorgan are losing to startups
Good Morning. Andrew McAfee, digital innovation guru at the MIT Sloan School, has a new book out this week. He joined Fortune senior reporter Sheryl Estrada, me and 40 CFOs at a dinner in Boston last week, held in collaboration with Workday and Deloitte, which sponsors this newsletter. Before diving into a preview of his book, we…
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Wicker Supports Mississippi’s Innovation Ecosystem
Federal agencies are taking note of Mississippi’s contribution to our national defense. I recently invited officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to Hattiesburg to see this work firsthand and to meet with our business and research leaders. DARPA’s partnership with these sectors reinforces the truth that economic development and national security…
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Lower Costs, Faster Adoption: Closing the Sustainable Innovation Gap
This article is part of Bain’s 2023 CEO Sustainability Guide In most industries, leadership positions have been stagnant for decades, with around 80% of profits typically captured by one or two players. Companies make incremental moves for incremental gains, but opportunities to leapfrog competitors or rewrite the future are few and far between. The new…
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Supercharge innovation with this refined “magpie strategy”
Excerpted from A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, by Michael Muthukrishna. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2023 Salgado Muthukrishna Consulting Ltd. All rights reserved. In folklore, magpies are known for always looking out for shiny objects to bring back to their…
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Mitsubishi Chemical CEO says innovation is key to carbon transition
TOKYO — Innovation in the chemical industry is essential to achieving the challenging transition to carbon neutrality, Mitsubishi Chemical Group President and CEO Jean-Marc Gilson told Nikkei Asia. “In order to do carbon neutrality,” Gilson said, “you need lithium for batteries, you need carbon fibers for lighter materials for bigger windmills … new high-power semiconductor[s],…
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MPs visit Tarmac’s National Laboratory of Technical Innovation
Local MP and Shadow Roads Minister get an update on latest innovations in asphalt materials DURING the 120th anniversary of Edgar Hooley’s invention of Tarmacadam, the MP for Wolverhampton South East, the Rt Hon. Pat McFadden MP visited the historical home of Tarmac, accompanied by Shadow Roads Minister, Bill Esterson MP. The Rt Hon. Pat…
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UH-MC holds Maui Food and Innovation Center grand opening
A grand opening and blessing was held Nov. 6 for the Maui Food and Innovation Center’s commercial kitchen and educational center at the University of Hawai‘i Maui College. Photos courtesy UH University of Hawai’i Maui College held a grand opening and blessing of its new Maui Food and Innovation Center commercial kitchen and education center…
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UC 1819 Innovation Hub, CVG join forces to transform airport technology
Harnessing technology to improve operations is paramount for CVG executives like Chief Innovation Officer Brian Cobb, who collaborated with UC doctoral student Javier Viaña in the College of Engineering and Applied Science to analyze wait times at airport security. Using airport technology, Viaña identified the number of people entering terminal checkpoints by developing a customized algorithm to…