Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis. These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.
Australian scientists have confirmed what they have feared for months as a global coral bleaching event hit one ecological treasure after another, from Hawaii to Indonesia.
In a press release on March 29, the Australian Coral Bleaching Task Force announced that the northern portions of the Great Barrier Reef are in the throes of the most intense coral bleaching event on record there.
Image: Coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef viewed from the air. IMAGE: CORAL BLEACHING TASK FORCE
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up. The company had just under 8 million accounts, and the number was growing quickly as existing members invited their friends and colleagues to join. But users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected. Something was apparently missing in the social experience. As one LinkedIn manager put it, “It was like arriving at a conference reception and realizing you don’t know anyone. So you just stand in the corner sipping your drink—and you probably leave early.”
How do folks become angel investors? What career path led them to this role? And how old are they? These are the couple of questions in a survey by University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School professor’s survey as part of a quest to provide a better understanding of who angel investors are and what motivates them.
The survey is part of a partnership between Wharton Entrepreneurship and the Angel Capital Association. Rev1 Ventures’ John Huston Fund for Angel Professionalism is bankrolling the survey. Active, accredited investors can participate confidentially in the benchmark study at TheAmericanAngel.org. Wharton Entrepreneurship will administer and analyze the data.
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A new project highlights how some young people are paving unique career paths in an unstable, unpredictable era.
Millennials are coming into adulthood at a time of high student loan debt, rising rents, and elusive financial security. On top of that, older generations lob criticisms right and left—they’re tech-obsessed, unprofessional, antisocial. You name it, millennials have heard it.
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As part of its broader innovation and economic development mission, KAUST is expanding its support and training for entrepreneurship to meet the growing interest amongst students (and young people across the Kingdom) in innovation, creativity and design. There are some early signs of success with the incorporation of various new student-led businesses in Saudi Arabia: ‘Made in Saudi Arabia.’
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If you’re feeling discouraged, you’re not alone. I definitely feel discouraged from time to time; I’ve been in business for over a decade, and I’ve learned that being an entrepreneur can take a toll on you. As an entrepreneur, you’ll go through ups and downs — a roller coaster of emotions, successes and failures. Sometimes you’ll feel empowered, other times you’ll think it’s all been a waste.
Whether a financial rut, cash flow issues or staff issues, we’re all impacted by our businesses. Entrepreneur burnout is real — and dangerous. A serious burnout can be detrimental to your entire business.
An 11-year-old girl from Texas has impressively built a successful business with her special homemade lemonade while saving endangered honey bees in the process.
Mikaila Ulmer, the brilliant kid creator of BeeSweet Lemonade who calls herself a “bee ambassador,” has recently landed a multi-million deal with Whole Foods enabling her to distribute her product to the retail giant’s 55 stores nationwide, NBC reported.
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There is growing support for, and recognition of, the vital role women entrepreneurs play in boosting economic productivity and growth.
However, women’s entrepreneurship is still overwhelmingly concentrated in low productivity sectors with limited growth potential. According the the World Bank, almost 1 billion women have the potential to positively impact their economies as entrepreneurs and workers, yet they are unable to do so due to unique challenges when starting and growing businesses, leaving a widely untapped source of economic development and innovation.
Image: Want to know what the latest research says about trends in women's entrepreneurship and what data shows is working to support those women-led businesses? We list must-read articles and reports on women’s entrepreneurship. Photo by: Razief Adlie / FreeImages
After graduating Stanford (where he was co-President of his class) with a BA/MA in history, attending medical school at UCSF, studying political economics at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, training in internal medicine at Stanford, and conducting academic research on global health at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Dr. Rajaie Batniji did the next obvious thing (if you live in Silicon Valley): he ditched a promising career in academia to co-found a startup.
Image: Dr. Rajaie Batniji, Co-Founder of Collective Health (Photo courtesy R. Batniji, used with permission.) - http://www.forbes.com
When someone with a high fever walks into a rural African clinic, diagnosis could be murky. The symptoms could be those of dengue, Ebola, West Nile disease, malaria or flu, and blood work results from distant labs, if available, often takes days. Now a handful of researchers are separately working on inexpensive, paper-based diagnostic tests that accurately pinpoint the cause of a disease in minutes and could speed up treatment and prevent its spread. The lack of funds and commercial partners however, means most might languish in labs.
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The Turnbull Government has been vocal about its support for Australian startups, but its innovation commitment came under fire on Monday when Pete Cooper, founder of StartSoc, questioned Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy on the ABC’s QandA program about the lack of funding backing start-ups..
Cooper asked why the government decided to allocate funding for research but not for innovative startups as part of its $1.1 billion National Innovation and Science Agenda.
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Looking for job security in the knowledge economy? Just learn to code. At least, that’s what we’ve been telling young professionals and mid-career workers alike who want to hack it in the modern workforce—in fact, it’s advice I’ve given myself. And judging by the proliferation of coding schools and bootcamps we’ve seen over the past few years, not a few have eagerly heeded that instruction, thinking they’re shoring up their livelihoods in the process.
DETROIT, March 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Many Michigan released its comprehensive quantitative and qualitative study, the Creative State Michigan: 2016 Creative Industries Report, focused on employment, wages and establishments data and the impact of creative industries in Michigan. The report is available at http://www.creativemany.org/research/ 2016-creative-industries-report/.
"The Creative Industries Report demonstrates the need to acknowledge the creative industries as essential to building economic resilience in our state," said Jennifer Goulet, president and CEO of Creative Many Michigan. "The creative industries are growing but not to the extent of Michigan's other sectors. As creatives continue to play an integral role as innovators across all sectors of the economy, our study outlines the possibilities requiring cultivation and forecasts for the future to mobilize and influence an ever-changing, diverse global economy."
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arizona’s bioscience industry has sustained its momentum and continues its long-standing trend of impressive job growth and high wages, a new report shows.
In addition, risk capital reached its highest figure in four years, and all measures of bioscience tech transfer at Arizona universities are on the rise, with increases in startups, invention disclosures, patents, and licenses.
Emails are so easy to send, but they’re also easy to ignore. With more than 120 messages landing in the average office worker’s inbox each day, making sure yours gets read and gets a response can be tricky. To increase your chances of getting of a reply, here are nine tricks you can try:
1. ASK FOR A RESPONSE IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE
It sounds simple, but sometimes all you need to do is ask for a response. If an email needs a reply, alert the person in the subject line, suggests St. Louis-based professional organizer Janine Adams. "The one thing that gets me to reply to an email is when the person puts ‘—RESPONSE NEEDED’ at the end of the subject line," she says. "It’s very effective."
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I am very pleased to announce a new report, released today by InterbrandHealth, that ranks top leaders in biopharma and uncovers key industry insights.
Best Pharma Brands, a global study, identifies the biopharma companies that are addressing healthcare professionals' (HCPs), payers', and policy makers' needs. The study examines what value means to HCPs and illustrates the influence the corporate brand has in conveying that value. It reveals how leading companies are beginning to deliver on what matters to HCPs.
Looking to the future, healthcare professionals desire a commitment to innovative healthcare solutions that go "beyond the pill." As a result, leading biopharma companies are adapting their business models, increasing transparency, exploring non-traditional solutions in areas like digital therapies, and ramping up their Corporate Citizenship activities.
Best Pharma Brands ranks these leading companies by qualifying the industry's definition of value through brand, then quantifying the corporate brand's contribution to business performance.
Bid farewell to your cynicism, friends, because a school in Canada has introduced a "buddy bench" to promote inclusive playtime.
Saskatoon's Willowgrove School placed the bench inside the school's playground, and it has since been a big hit with the youngsters. The rules of the bench are as follows: Any kid without someone to play with can sit there, and within a few moments they will be asked to play by a fellow student. The power of positive peer pressure!
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From 2009-11, Americans seemed to be clustering again in dense cities, to the great excitement urban boosters. The recently released 2015 Census population estimates confirm that was an anomaly. Americans have strongly returned to their decades long pattern of greater suburbanization and migration to lower-density, lower-cost metropolitan areas, largely in the South, Intermountain West and, most of all, in Texas.
Every winter, the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover reaches a peak and then declines with the onset of spring. That peak, recorded this year on Thursday, was the lowest seen in 37 years of record keeping, federal scientists said yesterday. Sea ice covered just 5.6 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean on Thursday, about 5,000 square miles less than the previous record set last year, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA. The 1981-2010 average sea ice extent was 6 million square miles.
