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Dutch Airline Fuels Trans-Atlantic Flights Using Cooking Oil

“KLM travelers can now fly on trans-Atlantic commercial flights on a jumbo jet fueled in part by the same oil that was used to cook French fries and catfish.” Read more:...

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futuristgerd: Transition Trauma Guaranteed. We are currently experiencing a very unique combination of digitally-fueled disruptions: rising globalization and much increased economic interdependence of...

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Bill Gates: Food Is Ripe for Innovation – via @mashable

Link: Bill Gates: Food Is Ripe for Innovation – via @mashable destx: The global population is on track to reach 9 billion by 2050. What are all those people going to eat? With billions of people adding...

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stanfordbusiness: “If you had a strategy professor, he or she probably taught you to avoid competition. The professor was wrong,” states Professor William Barnett. Read why competition is the engine...

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we invest and we subsidize their education in fields where there are no jobs Clay Christensen at 6:18 in this video (via fred-wilson) One of the highlights of the entire http://StartupGrind.com/2013...

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Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple

Link: Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple

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smartercities: The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation | The Atlantic Cities It’s obvious from human history that people have long found unique value in living and working in cities, even if...

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Futures Agency member, Doug Stephens, gives his thoughts on innovation.

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Email is the main cause of information overload at work today. It prevents us from being able to make good decisions and tackle important tasks according to priority. Can Activity Streams Save Us From...

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How innovation in glass manufacturing is turning green even greener | via...

Link: How innovation in glass manufacturing is turning green even greener | via @guardian destx: Innovation in glass packaging is saving both resources and carbon emissions but manufacturers and buyers...

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meetingofthemindsv: The Future of Entrepreneurship: Meeting of the Minds #4: Ross Dawson & Gerd Leonhard (Futurists) (by Gerd Leonhard)

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Dropping the Needle: Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education

Disruption theory comes from the business literature, but it has been co-opted by other sectors as it provides a framing device that helps us make sense of the fast-paced 21st century…Why is it...

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Next Gen Automation

What are the key innovations that combine to enable the next generation of automation? A recent forward looking McKinsey report assessed the potential impact of Disruptive Technologies, providing a...

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Must watch: Gerd Leonhard on how large companies innovate

Watch Gerd Leonhard speak to the Sanoma Lab about how large companies can be just as innovative as start-ups. A special thanks to Jonathan Marks, Christopher Marks and Sanoma Lab NL for making this...

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A Review of the 13th Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Zimbabwe

Dr Madan Rao, Conference Chair at IADS 2015 wrote a review of the 13th Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Zimbabwe and you should read it! Over 350 delegates from 40 countries attended the three-day...

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Culture Drives Innovation

With this month’s announcement that the European Union is investigating Amazon for possible anticompetitive behavior in the sale of e-books, antitrust fervor in Europe seems to have hit fever pitch....

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#HelloWorld15: Digital Transformation Driving Business Re-Invention

“Just like publishers are transcending the idea of selling content, digital transformation forces every leading incumbent to transcend the products and services that are certain to become a commodity,”...

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5 ways tech can transform finance

Crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lenders, mobile payments, bitcoin, robo-advisers – there seems to be no end to the diversity, or to the sky-high valuations, of these “fintech” innovators. Read more from...

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Disruptive Technologies Transforming the Government-Citizen Relationship

David Raths proposes an interesting selection of disruptive technologies in eight critical areas of government, ranging from public safety to health to transportation. Powerful combinations of digital,...

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