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Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis.  These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.

Meeting of business executives 2021 08 29 09 40 39 utcToday’s CIO wears many hats, as the role has evolved dramatically over the last few years. With digital transformation being a top priority for organizations, many CIOs are engaged in a broad range of activities at the epicenter of business transformation. In fact, Lenovo’s recent Global CIO Research study surveyed over 500 CIOs worldwide, and 92% said that the CIO roles have changed (download required), with many reporting they are being asked to “make business decisions that go far beyond technology.”

 

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Data the cloud storage information concept 2021 08 27 00 00 16 utc  1Data quality management efforts — tied to disrupting innovations, rapid market shifts and regulation pressures — will continue to grow in 2023 and take on a more dominant role in the data management ecosystem. Turning to the cloud, edge, 5G and machine learning, hybrid worldwide workforces and global customers are generating data at levels never experienced before.

 

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10 Awesome Rotary Powered Mazdas You ve Probably Never Heard OfIn spring 2022, Mazda unveiled a rotary-powered plug-in hybrid model as part of its ever-expanding MX-30 lineup. Although the Hiroshima-based automaker is not returning the rotary engine quite the way most gearheads expected, the majority still reminisce on how much it defined automotive history. While other carmakers tried and failed to make the rotary engine a success, Mazda's engineers took Felix Wankel's design concept and brought it to fruition.

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Fundraising 63 2021 10 23 19 43 33 utcOct 19 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is launching a platform that aims to connect startup founders with venture capital investors to simplify the fundraising process, the bank told Reuters.

The new platform, Capital Connect, focuses on serving the financing needs of startups from their early stages, marking the ambition of the biggest U.S. bank by assets to further expand into the private market and build a founder-friendly brand in Silicon Valley.

 

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Smart content concept 2022 08 01 03 01 01 utcContent, likes, shares — there's so much more to an online presence than SEO, and we've been empowered to do it all. But why are so many Entrepreneurs falling short regarding content for their business? The answer is plain and straightforward; they are not a photographer or a videographer.

Duh. But this is entrepreneurship! Wearing many hats and making do with what you have is just part of it, right? Isn't that why we're here? To do our best and to make it work?

 

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Dan Kerr Flyover Capital 768x508Traveling throughout the U.S. for business, Dan Kerr regularly comes across investors who have heard rumblings about the burgeoning Kansas City tech startup ecosystem, he said.

But one problem persists: most of these potential funders have never stepped foot in Kansas City.

“Really what got my gears turning is that I have a big network of investors around the country who hear things about Kansas City — they hear really positive things [and] they want to come out, but they don’t have a focal point of when to do that,” Kerr said. “I also go to a lot of events in other regions, and I’ve seen some things that work really well to get connections going.”

Image: Dan Kerr, Flyover Capital

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Wooden figure standing on the wooden block concep 2022 08 01 01 19 03 utcBENTONVILLE, Ark., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology transfers – or outputs from research institutions that lead to innovation beyond the walls of academia – are essential fuel for the economic growth of state economies. Building on the insights offered in Research to Renewal: Advancing University Tech Transfer, published in May 2022 and released at the organization's flagship event, Heartland Summit, Heartland Forward's new report From Research to Renewal, Part 2: States Realizing the Potential of Research Institutions provides the first new benchmark comparison for public universities structured as part of a state system and also considers institutions (hospitals, private research institutes and federal labs) that do not grant degrees but are important sources of research and innovation that bolster state economies.

 

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1982: President Ronald Reagan, surrounded by Rep. John LaFalce, D-N.Y., and Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., after signing the Small Business Innovation Development Act into law in the Rose Garden. - BETTMANN ARCHIVEWithout much fanfare, Congress recently passed legislation reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs and President Biden quickly signed it into law. The reauthorization of this critical program builds off of important pieces of recent economic legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the American Rescue Plan. While many Americans, including small business owners and entrepreneurs, may not be aware of either of these U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) efforts, their reauthorization is a big deal for innovation.

Image: 1982: President Ronald Reagan, surrounded by Rep. John LaFalce, D-N.Y., and Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., after signing the Small Business Innovation Development Act into law in the Rose Garden. - BETTMANN ARCHIVE

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Entrepreneur with headphones listening to music an 2022 01 18 23 47 23 utcMany people dream of starting their own company and running their own business. Yet, most of them do not know what is important and how much work is involved in founding a company. Also, fewer people have what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur: a lot of motivation, preparation, discipline and skill.

 

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H2 hydrogen clear energy ecological future alterna 2022 09 13 03 28 21 utcHydrogen could play a major role in emissions reduction by 2030 thanks to the scaling up of low-carbon "green hydrogen" production, the non-profit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) explained last week in a blog post.

The carbon footprint of fuel-cell vehicles can vary dramatically based on how the hydrogen they use is produced. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, with electricity generated from renewable sources, to minimize carbon emissions. There should be plenty of electrolysis capacity online by the end of the decade, RMI predicts.

 

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This massive OE35 wave energy generator was built in an Oregon shipyard and towed out to Hawaii for testingOceanEnergyIrish company OceanEnergy has already tested its oscillating water column generators at significant scale in Hawaii, and it's just signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize its biggest unit yet off Orkney, in Scotland. The OE35, billed as the world's largest capacity floating wave energy device, is certainly an imposing thing to look at. While no dimensions have yet been drawn up for the machine to be built for Scotland as yet, the machine the company built for testing at a US Navy test site in Hawaii measures 125 x 59 ft (38.1 x 18 m), with a draft of 31 ft (9.4 m) and a total weight of 826 tons.

Image: This massive OE35 wave energy generator was built in an Oregon shipyard and towed out to Hawaii for testingOceanEnergy

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Woman sorting different waste girl holding a plas 2022 02 02 03 58 26 utcPlastic is everywhere. According to the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Laboratory (NREL), in the United States, only 5 percent of plastic used is actually recycled. This is in large because plastics are not all chemically the same, making it harder and more expensive to separate individual polymers. These mixed plastics often build up in landfills and in the environment.

 

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HPC AI WS 22 Marco Pistoia 675x380Most talk about quantum computing today, at least in HPC circles, focuses on advancing technology and the hurdles that remain. There are plenty of the latter. Financial services giant JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) takes a different, distinctly user perspective, generally steering clear of the qubit technology battles and instead focusing on becoming being quantum-ready now. Quantum information science, believes JPMC, isn’t a nice-to-learn area but a must-learn. QIS will upend many existing practices and introduce new ones.

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Sunset view of pyramid complex of giza in cairo 2022 01 25 08 07 47 utcFrom the calendar system which structures modern day life, to shaving tools, writing utensils, and recreational activities, the Ancient Egyptian civilization invented many meaningful tools and systems which are major parts of modern day life. Without these innovations, who knows how long it would have been before similar things were created or adopted into every day use?

 

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NSussman Techcrunch Exchange v3 ORNG“The 2022 venture capital market” is nearly a misnomer, as each quarter that passes seems to bring with it a new normal for startup investment. The pace of quarterly change in how venture investors are disbursing capital is making full-year numbers almost misleading.

The change inside of 2022, in other words, may at times mask just how much things have been evolving more recently; January and February feel like years ago in startup time, not merely a few quarters back.

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One of Amplitude’s largest shareholders when the data-analytics firm went public was Sequoia Capital.
PHOTO: ANDREW KELLY/ASSOCIATED PRESSVenture-capital firms are jumping into the stock market, buying up battered shares in publicly traded tech companies at a time when they are investing less in the startups that have long been their focus.

Some major venture firms including Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners have purchased more stocks of companies they first backed as startups this year, defying the industry norm of selling those shares soon after public listings.

Image: One of Amplitude’s largest shareholders when the data-analytics firm went public was Sequoia Capital. PHOTO: ANDREW KELLY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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