Müge Ozman, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
Even as digital social innovations (DSI) are booming in Europe, obstacles remain for their being able to provide effective solutions to the big challenges of our times.
Apple CEO Tim Cook. What was once a start-up is now a behemoth.
Tuaulamac/Flickr
Why do organisations find it difficult to change when facing a disruption? In part, because over time, what they know how to do migrates from resources to processes and finally values.
South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive.
Moviegoers familiarize themselves with the joystick that will allow them to interact with the film ‘I’m Your Man’ during its premiere on Dec. 16, 1992.
AP Photo/Richard Harbus
Politics Podcast: Bill Ferris on Australia’s innovation mission
CC BY46.8 MB(download)
Innovation and Science Australia chair Bill Ferris launched a report this week setting out a plan that seeks to put Australia into the top tier of innovation nations by 2030.
The new report started as a central plank of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s 2015 National Innovation and Science Agenda.
from www.shutterstock.com
The Australia 2030: Prosperity Through Innovation report offers five “imperatives for action”: Education, Industry, Government, Research and Development, and Culture and Ambition.
The trend in establishing start-ups, collaboration and “freelancing” contributed to the growing market of co-working and virtual spaces.
www.shutterstock.com
Research shows the ability to act strategically for the long term is a key component of successful leadership – and sorely lacking in Congress these days.
Elon Musk, head of Telsa, is an advocate for flat organisational structures.
Samferdselsdepartementet/Flickr
Scientists are rewarded with funding and publications when they come up with innovative findings. But in the midst of a ‘reproducibility crisis,’ being new isn’t the only thing to value about research.
You can’t keep a good scientist down.
Vlad Tchompalov on Unsplash
President Trump’s first year was a rough one for scientists and others who value truth and expertise. Many rallied to the cause, while others used research to make the case for the value of science.
Six questions to ask yourself before you buy that last minute Christmas present.
Humanoid robots at an international robotics competition in Tehran, Iran, during 2014. Students from 22 countries, including Canada, were competing during the three-day event.
(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
In their relentless pursuit of research commercialization, and bigger robots, universities might miss the real opportunity of technology - to make our world a better place.
Academics put Hammond in the spotlight.
EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN
Academics deliver their verdict on Philip Hammond.
While most Canadian nurses still use some paper charting systems, robots are being developed to complete intimate nursing tasks. Nurses need to embrace technological change, to direct their own future.
(Shutterstock)
Will nurses eventually be replaced by robots? Nurses themselves need to engage with the ongoing technological revolution in healthcare - to shape the future of the profession.
Robots are advancing exponentially while human learning occurs at a much slower pace.
Shutterstock
Jobs are not created or lost because of a single technology, but because of the business models designed to leverage the power of it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Dr. Mona Nemer, Canada’s new chief science adviser, check out a robot that launches balls, with science fair participants Van Bernat and Kate O'Melia of Governor Simcoe Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ont., on Parliament Hill in September.
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)