Innovation Blog
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
chart,
Twitter,
investors,
real-time,
StreamGraph,
Neoformix,
conversation,
invention,
inventors,
graph
Innovators, investors and inventors – and, no doubt, lots of other types beginning with ‘I’ – need to keep their ear to the ground. How can you do that in a fun way? With this new Twitter infographic, you can tune into real-time conversation just by typing in a keyword.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
statistics,
global,
infographic,
chart,
patents,
World Patent Report
Who is leading the world in innovation right now? Using the latest data from the
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
renewable energy,
energy,
engineering,
science,
car,
car industry,
eco,
fuel,
airport,
General Motors,
heathrow,
hydrogen
“Wanted: silent taxi driver - no jip, no ranting, no dodgy fare charges; must run on hydrogen.” Coming to a terminal near you, this sci-fi reality of urban transport is no false dawn.
For a generation, General Motors and Volkswagen have been focused on manufacturing autonomous vehicles for everyday public use. An initiative which began as a defence sector project to provide self-guided battle craft, has become a marketable public transport solution. If the auto-cabs we see on our streets within five years have a voice, they will smoothly declare: “This isn’t just innovation, this is marvellously spectacular innovation.”
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Friday, August 07, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Summer in Paris, it’s no picnic this year. Last month’s Paris Air Show was as exciting as yesterday’s croissant; and EasyJet have flattened aeronautic soufflés, scaling down new aircraft acquisition. As President Sarkozy likes to say: “I feel… little… faint…”
Carla arrived at L’Hospital on a motorcycle; it was certainly more chic than an entree with a police car. But what if Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had a ‘Skycar’?
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
statistics,
numbers
Are you a fan of numbers? Or do you prefer to leave all that to your accountant?
Well, today’s number crunching might interest you.
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