Innovation Blog

Innovation cities – “It started with an ‘X’

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Environment | Tags: innovation, links, europe, Brazil, construction, Brasilia, Climate Change Summit, Los Angeles, Al Gore

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Brasilia was an ambitious new beginning in 1956, emerging from two intersecting lines in the red dust of Brazil’s interior. Given the opportunity, most politicians would role up a handful of their nation’s cities and sling them in the nearest bin - it would be a yellow recycling bin, obviously, with toxic signs and syringe sharps warnings.

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In defence of a nation - Innovation

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

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21st Century Western defence systems are based on

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Alternative energy’s got oil over a barrel

Friday, May 29, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories: Business, Environment | Tags: innovation, entrepreneurs, government, renewable energy, energy, europe, science

OPEC has delayed 35 of 150 scheduled oil production projects. Oil prices have swirled between $147 a barrel last July, to $32 per barrel in February. China has announced investment of $400bn in solar energy production.


 

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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, technology, research, financial, university, europe, intellectual property, economist, patent, entrepreneurial, capitalism

Seventy years ago,

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