In a bid to re-electrify its own internal innovative culture, Japanese consumer electronics company Sony has launched a crowdfunding and e-commerce platform called First Flight.
The idea is to use the platform to identify and develop great ideas from Sony’s employees (but, it seems, ideas that aren’t quite great enough to be automatically channelled down Sony’s usual development route). Whether it’s a genius move, a cynical ploy or old rope repackaged depends on who you ask.
This year the European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2015 will join forces with WHINN – Week of Health and INNovation; an all-encompassing event which includes conferences, innovation and business activities, which are brought together in one week all within health and innovation.
ETC, which will take place on 21-22 October in Odense, Denmark, will provide a unique international platform for healthcare delivery organisations, government leaders, clinicians, researchers and university faculties to address and discuss the latest innovations in telemedicine.
The bad news is that the world is facing a severe food crisis. The good news is that we already have the solution. The other bad news, though, is that misunderstanding, misinformation and apocalyptic scaremongering are threatening to block the widespread implementation of this solution.
When an issue generates more conspiracy theories than the deaths of Elvis and JFK combined, rational debate tends to be elusive. Things like balance, reason and facts tend to get elbowed aside by mistrust, hyperbole and inaccuracies. Today, that’s the challenge facing genetically modified crops and crop biotechnology.
The fervour that began last summer as Scotland’s largest city welcomed the world for the 20th Commonwealth Games has never really ceased. Walk along any of the city’s streets and there is a real sense of something happening here.
The city is abuzz with three new speculative office developments. In high demand with a number of pre-lets, all are on course to complete and open in the next quarter adding over 450,000 sq ft of BREEAM Grade A office accommodation to the city centre.
Introducing Scotland’s Low Carbon Innovation Hub
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) is a national hub for the knowledge, innovation and skills required to create a low carbon economy. Over the past year, ECCI has hosted 15,000 visitors and 300 events and conferences in our purpose-built, award-winning low carbon venue – the UK’s most sustainable historic building.
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Positioned at the very heart both of Western Europe and Germany, Saxony-Anhalt – the eighth largest of Germany’s 16 federal states – boasts an enviable strategic location. There’s a lot more to do Saxony-Anhalt’s appeal than just location, however – a fact that’s being increasingly recognized by investors from every corner of the world.
Saxony-Anhalt – discreetly popular
While not perhaps a household name outside Germany, the landlocked federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany is held in high regard among those with an eye on Europe’s leading investment locations.
IPPs keen to step in to help mitigate power crisis
South Africa’s Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have rolled up their sleeves and are standing by to work with all stakeholders on measures to help alleviate the current power crisis, says the Chairperson of the South African Independent Power Producers’ Association, Sisa Njikelana.
Speaking ahead of the POWER-GEN Africa and DistribuTECH Africa power generation and distribution conferences to be held in Cape Town later this year,
