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A recent NY Times article discusses how visionaries, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs, are all working together to move technology ‘from the lab to the marketplace’ at a handful of universities in United States. Continue reading…
IBM published videos from Smarter Cities – Shanghai 2010 event, where forward-thinking leaders gathered to explore how to transform critical components of their cities to become more resilient, more sustainable and more secure. Continue reading…
Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and former Xerox PARC Chief Scientist John Seely Brown presents his theory of a monumental economic shift from a push to a pull economy as outlaid in his 2010 book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. Continue reading…
Regional economic growth is highly correlated with the presence of many small, entrepreneurial employers not a few big ones, according to a new study by Harvard professors Ed Glaeser and William Kerr. Continue reading…
Hutch Carpenter, VP of Product at Spigit, has published his keynote speech in the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 in Milan (June 9-10, 2010) where he speaks about innovation. Specifically, on the latest advances in leveraging communities to advance innovation. Continue reading…
John Underkoffler explores some ideas about the future of user interface on 3D space, which is a key issue for intelligent / smart cities. The web, he says, is a fantastic interface, but also a kind of distraction; we have forgotten to invent new interfaces. What happens next? where we go from here? Continue reading…
Crowndfunding, an alternative to traditional startups funding models, is crowdsourcing the fundraising process by pooling the donations of many individuals. Based on the idea of the “wisdom of crowds”, crowdfunding promises fundraising that is more transparent, more collaborative, more accessible, and more global. Continue reading…
Smart city projects are opening a huge market of $1.2 trillion investment in a decade. The estimation is Continue reading…
EUROCITIES, a network of major European cities, published a paper that explores and promotes debate on social, public and market innovation as well as the role that cities play in both supporting and doing innovation. Continue reading…
Raconteur, a London based publishing house, published a special report on “Smart Cities – Building the 21st century city” which was included in The Times newspaper on 1 June 2010. Continue reading…
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