Innovation Blog
Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: research,
Bill Gates,
eco,
Microsoft,
Clouds,
Greenhouse,
Engineering
In the marvelous playground that is the mind of Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, the world must look like a Mario Kart video game. Gates is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards, seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
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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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Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: innovation,
recession,
entrepreneur,
research,
financial,
business models,
New Business Models,
car,
economist,
Alysoun Stewart
Nearly two thirds (63%) of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery according to new research from leading financial and business advisers, Grant Thornton.
How is your business responding to the recession?
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: recession,
research,
financial,
strategy,
Board,
New Business Models,
Economist,
EIU,
M%A
Our research shows that most companies need to review, and possibly renew, their business models.
Here are some suggestions from our own experts on the areas that you might wish to table:
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Monday, July 27, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
global,
university,
engineering,
europe,
science,
intellectual property,
defence,
robots
http://www.wordle.net/
21st Century Western defence systems are based on
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
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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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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