Innovation
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Let Startups Start Out Tax-Free
Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all private-sector employers, provide great innovation and are the most potent force to revive America’s economy, which cannot grow at a healthy pace without them. Yet small businesses continue to face unnecessary obstacles to their success.
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Let’s Stop Focusing On Shiny Gadgets And Start Using Tech To Empower People
Two weeks ago, [Red Burns] passed away. But much more needs to be said about one of the smartest, gutsiest women I ever knew, and about what she thought about education, technology, design … and life. Read More »
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Leveraging Appification To Spur R&D Innovation
In my last entry, I posited that technology should be a barrier to “appifying” R&D workflows. So why haven’t apps taken off so far in R&D? I’d argue that it comes down to the paradigm shift that mobile technology has created in computing. Read More »
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Libelium Awarded By The Princes Of Asturias
Last December, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias awarded Libelium as the most Innovative Company in Spain, at the annual meeting of the Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (CEAJE). Read More »
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Libelium Sensors Launch Into Space In the First Open Source Satellite
With the successful space launch of ArduSat aboard a H-IIB rocket, the first open satellite platform that allows private citizens to design and run their own applications in space is now on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). Read More »
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Life Sciences Information Framework OpenBEL To Become A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
New Project Will Accelerate Collaboration on OpenBEL, the Open Platform for Capturing, Integrating, Storing and Sharing Biological Knowledge in and Across Organizations Read More »
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LinuxCon Europe Keynoter Catarina Mota Talks Open Source Hardware
We kick off our LinuxCon Europe Q&A series today with keynote speaker and openMaterials Co-founder Catarina Mota. Mota shares some really interesting insights with us on open hardware, her favorite projects and how open hardware compares to open source software. Read More »
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Made In China: Eric Pan And Open Source Hardware
Maker culture is being remade in China. Along with pioneers like Bunnie Huang and David Li, of Shanghai hackerspace Xinchejian, Eric Pan and his open hardware facilitator, Seeed Studio are accelerating the global maker movement by helping people source, design, produce, and commercialize their maker projects. Read More »
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Make Things 'Til You Make It at Colorado's "Blowing Things Up Lab"
Recently while reading a tweet from the Blowing Things Up Lab, I learned about Emily Daub, a maker and college student who designed a running shirt that helps runners be more visible to motorists—my daughter is a runner so this sounds like a great idea to me. The shirt is photosensitive which cause the light intensity of the fabric to change in ambient light. According to Emily Daub, "If you run at night, this is for you. This lights up as it gets darker outside on two independent photocells and no microcontroller!" In this interview, I ask Emily more about this fantastic invention...
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Making Research Findings Free – Commission’s Decision
Open access to research publications, so-called “open access” is regarded vital for reaching innovative progress in the EU. Open access is fundamental to improving knowledge circulation and to facilitate innovation in Europe. Therefore, open access will be mandatory for all scientific publications produced with funding from Horizon 2020, as well as for EU's Research & Innovation research funded during 2014-20. Read More »
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Malcolm Gladwell Tells 3 Tales Of Interoperability
[....] The best-selling author and New Yorker staffer [Malcolm Gladwell], who was once a reporter for the Washington Post, likened the change required for healthcare to make it over the interoperability hurdle to several events of this generation, “three lessons in culture, framing and consequence,” as he put it during Thursday’s Healthcare Innovation Day. Read More »
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MAVC: Open For Business
Making All Voices Count (MAVC) is a global initiative that supports innovation, scaling-up, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness. This Grand Challenge focuses global attention on creative and cutting-edge solutions [...] to ensure the voices of all citizens are heard and that governments have the capacity, as well as the incentive, to listen and respond. Read More »
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McMaster Gets $5.8 Million To Improve Electronic Health Records
McMaster University is getting $5.8 million from the federal government to create a personal health record that will let patients take control of their information and communicate with doctors online — including making appointments. Read More »
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MedStartr Brings Dedicated Crowdfunding Platform To Digital Health
NYC-based MedStartr (@medstartr) has finally unveiled version 1.0 of their crowd funding platform for digital health and medicine projects, which are specifically ineligible for listing on Kickstarter. Read More »
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MedStartr Finally Brings Crowdfunding To Health Projects
...serial healthtech entrepreneur Alex Fair and founding Kickstarter product manager Mike Pence have set out to give health-focused entrepreneurs and projects a Kickstarter of their own. Medstartr, which launched in beta today, is a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for healthcare companies, providing startups with a vehicle to market their wares, generate awareness and raise capital — direct from strangers, investors, and Doogie Howsers alike...
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