Mind mapping has become an indispensable tool for organizing and developing ideas. Through the use of graphics, charts, and diagrams they help to organize and develop ideas. As such, more businesses are using mind mapping techniques for seeing the big picture, brainstorming, planning projects, and decision making. The technique allows you to organize ideas beyond a simple list, enhance time management, and help you become more creative in generating ideas. To help you develop new ideas for using mind maps, we’ve pulled together 12 creative mind map examples which you can use for inspiration.

A new specialized lab, office and collaboration space for over 100 life science and health technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and researchers was recently announced for The Campus, Cherrywood in South Dublin, Ireland. The hub, the first of its kind in Ireland, aims to build on Dublin’s emerging international reputation as a leading center for life sciences innovation and start-up activity.

Spear Street Capital, an owner and operator of distinctive properties located in the US, Canada and Europe, will invest in the purpose-built life sciences campus. The site will be managed by the UK’s We Are Pioneer Group (WAPG).

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday released new implementation guidance for the $10 billion State Small Business Credit Initiative Program, designed to allow firms in disadvantaged communities access capital.

The program, approved under coronavirus relief legislation passed in March, aims to catalyze $10 of private investment for every $1 of federal funding. Treasury said in the the guidance that it will provide $2.5 billion in seed capital for jurisdictions to reach businesses owned by socially or economically disadvantaged individuals and over $600 million in funding to Native American tribes.

If you are frustrated by a lack of accountability in your workplace, you are not alone. The real question is what you can do to improve it, as a manager, or even as a concerned team member. Accountability is all about taking responsibility for getting things done as expected, without excuses. Low accountability leads to mistrust, low morale, and a toxic office culture.

Venture capital investment is a major economic driver in some U.S. states. In others, it plays a much smaller role.

To get a sense of how states compare, we took a look at per capita venture funding across 26 states that receive $700 million or more in annual venture funding.

Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.)

To assemble our list of 2021’s Best Inventions, we solicited nominations across a variety of categories from TIME’s editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process. We then evaluated each contender on a number of key factors, including originality, creativity, efficacy, ambition and impact.

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Offering employees the tools and motivation to create ideas is the key to an innovative organisation.

A manufacturer of the fabric used to reinforce car tyres might not seem an obvious source of innovation inspiration. But in just a few years, Kordsa, a part of the Turkish industrial conglomerate Sabancı Group, transformed itself from a price-driven maker of commodity products into a provider of innovative solutions to clients across multiple industries.

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Autonomous vehicle technology company Motional announced on Tuesday that it will help offer fully driverless Lyft service within two years -- and they'll pick up their first U.S. passengers in Las Vegas.

Motional, a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and auto supplier Aptiv, said Las Vegas will be the first U.S. city to see the driverless vehicles in 2023.

Over the last several years, Anheuser-Busch has been undergoing a mindset change as they put the consumer at the center of their innovation efforts. Leading this change is Dafne Hefner, Vice President of Insights and Strategy for Anheuser-Busch.   I sat down with Hefner to talk about A-B’s renewed focus on the consumer and how that focus has impacted both their new product pipeline, as well as the innovation strategy of their biggest brands.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is collaborating with government-focused tech firm PUBLIC to launch its accelerator programme for UK-based digital healthcare startups.

The virtual four-week mentorship opportunity is open to innovative companies focused on elective care, population health, citizen access and workforce.

A cohort of 10 selected healthcare startups will receive AWS promotional credits, specialised AWS training, mentoring from healthcare domain and technical subject matter experts, business development, go-to-market guidance, and investment guidance, and potential proof of concept opportunities with public sector healthcare customers. 

A new imaging technique, developed by the teams of Professors Jinyang Liang and Fiorenzo Vetrone at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), can measure temperature in 2D, without contact, and in just a snap. The results of their research were published in the journal Nature Communications. This accurate real-time temperature detection could one day improve photothermal therapy and help in the early diagnosis of skin cancers.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Did you know water dispensers for homes are considered as an effective source for purifying tap water, especially among residential end-users who live healthy lives? In the recent years, affordable countertop versions are expected to be highly preferred due to their compact size and design across the water dispenser market. Vendors in the ecommerce platform are actively developing new techniques to boost their sales in the global water technology market. As consumers are becoming aware of the water-borne diseases, players are prioritizing multi-stage filtration with RO and UV as major techniques which in turn, can be profitable as they are proven to be more effective than other methods of water filtration. Observing these rapid and drastic changes in demand and supply patterns are encouraging the industry analysts at Arizton to publish exhaustive and data-driven insights on these recent trends in the consumer goods retail tech industry. If you want to grow and gain profit in your business, check out our wide range of consumer goods retail tech related reports today and get customised solutions as per business requirement! 

“The global ‘Immersive Virtual Reality’ industry research study provides a comprehensive assessment of global economies as well as business-based insights into the market’s macroeconomic components. The orbismarketreports study also involves an in-depth assessment of important business trends, issues, and market structure. The global ‘Immersive Virtual Reality‘ research will also lay the basis for future structural analysis investigations. The orbismarketreports market study’s findings are assessed utilizing primary and secondary research techniques. This research paper looks extensively into the global business review’s history.

The pandemic has been devastating for U.S. employment, but the life sciences industry has only grown. While the private sector saw a 5.1% overall decline in its employment base in 2020, this industry grew its base by 1.4%. It also added 2.53 million unique job postings from 2017 to 2020, according to the 2021 Life Sciences Workforce Trends Report.

On Oct. 21, MIT Sloan hosted the latest in a series of discussions on the inclusion innovation economy to consider how leaders can capitalize on this growth to foster inclusivity.

Every week, our team at Refocus plays the ancient Chinese board game Go. It's not just for team-building or fun. Go is a powerful tool for pumping strategic thinking into business. The game, which is about 5,000 years old, helps entrepreneurs make important decisions about which country to open a new business in and how to behave in the market, which projects to close and which ones to invest in.

Each of our games is supervised by the Go teacher. He writes down the moves, and then analyzes them, asking the right questions. So, how does the game Go help achieve business goals and find problems in the team, and why is it similar to psychotherapy? 

Companies of every size in every industry and part of the world are basing more of their work around projects. And yet research shows that nearly two-thirds of those efforts fail. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, who has studied projects and project management for decades, explains how we can do better. He offers advice on the right way to frame projects, how to structure organizations around them, and pitfalls to avoid. Nieto-Rodriguez is the author of the Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook and author of the article “The Project Economy Has Arrived.”

• To meet targets set by the Paris Agreement, we will need to see innovations that work for people and planet on an unprecedented scale over the next decade. 
• Ecopreneurs put nature and climate at the core of their business models, ensuring that income for local livelihoods is generated and putting societies on a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable path. 
• We need to build and continue to support an innovation ecosystem in which these ecopreneurs can emerge, thrive and multiply exponentially around the globe. 

"We need an ecopreneur revolution, and we need it now." This was the passionate call-to-action delivered by Simon Mulcahy, Salesforce's Chief Innovation Officer, during the recent Sustainable Development Impact Summit.

Image: The Katingan Mentaya Project is just one example of a business that has put nature and fighting climate change at the core of their business model. Image: The Katingan Mentaya Project

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Heading into the U.N. climate talks currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland, people worldwide were mostly pleased with the efforts in their respective countries to preserve the environment. Sixty-three percent of adults surveyed in 2020 were satisfied.

This percentage is similar to satisfaction levels over the past several years, which have been higher than the levels in most of the years leading up to the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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College degrees are assets. Or at least they are sufficiently asset-like that many people are willing to borrow large amounts of money to obtain them. Degrees unlock valuable parts of the labor market and yield returns in the form of additional compensation that can be used to make loan payments.

Degrees are, like homes, critical milestones on the standard path to prosperity. Because people tend to get their first degrees and homes earlier in adult life, when they have fewer financial assets and less established credit, it makes sense for the government to subsidize the loans used to acquire them.

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