Innovation Blog

3-D Organ Printing – New Bio Organ Creation

Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Technology | Tags: research, university, engineering, print

For around $200,000, a true spring bargain, you will soon be able to buy the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.

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In defence of a nation - Innovation

Monday, July 27, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, global, university, engineering, europe, science, intellectual property, defence, robots

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Hail the Chief – Jack Welch Injects Executive Education with Competitive Boost

Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Education | Tags: innovation, media, entrepreneur, financial, government, talent, university, india, car

Neutron Jack is back. Jack Welch,  General Electric’s supercharged former CEO, is putting formidable wealth right next to his informative mouth, launching a new online MBA which he claims will compete with bricks and mortar programmes.

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Auto innovation - The end game

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, financial, government, energy, university, innovators, science, car

One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.

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Get me a dealmaker – One part innovator, one part salesman. Shaken and stirred.

Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Education, Technology | Tags: innovation, research, technology, financial, university, europe, intellectual property, economist, patent, entrepreneurial, capitalism

Seventy years ago,

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