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Future Skills with Dr. Sven Rahner: the German strategy to boost skills development
Credit: Shutterstock Talent development is a key priority for the German government. The National Skills Strategy addresses skills...
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Jul 4, 20215 min read


Future Skills with Ed Halliday: learn the Fire Tech model of tech education for children
Credit: Fire Tech website Fire Tech was one of the first companies to offer experiential technology training to children aged between...
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Jun 24, 20215 min read


Future Skills with Gianna Sagazio: 'There is a long and challenging path ahead'
Credit: Shutterstock The world is going through an accelerated transformation with the development of new technologies, increased global...
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Jun 17, 20218 min read


What the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) envisions for the future of the STI basic plan?
By Kazuyoshi Shimada, Ph.D, Director of Washington, D.C. Office, JST The 6th STI Basic plan in Japan The Japanese Cabinet approved the...
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May 18, 20215 min read


Building back better relies upon Africa's energy transition- Interview with Dr. Kandeh Yumkella
By Simone Melo More than 770 million people do not have access to electricity today; 75% of this population lives in sub-Saharan Africa....
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Apr 15, 20217 min read


Access to equitable vaccines distribution depends on renewable energy
Solar panels for energy production in South Sudan. Photo: Sebastian Noethlichs/Shutterstock By Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella President Biden has...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


Decoding the Now: Research
By Simone Melo The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in the higher education sector with unfolding impacts on universities’ ways...
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Mar 29, 20214 min read
Covid-19 is highlighting the Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Transformation
Deborah Wince-Smith Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturing enterprises, service firms, laboratories, schools and households across...
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Mar 16, 20214 min read


Will hydrogen power a net-zero future?
*Hydrogen’s economic potential will impact competitiveness strategies across the globe. The GFCC interviewed Distinguished Fellow Prof....
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Mar 11, 20216 min read


Sustainability is the new imperative of innovation
An interview with GFCC President Deborah L. Wince-Smith. Interview first published in Portuguese on InforMEI , Brazil. As one of the most...
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Jan 29, 20218 min read


Quantum computers: a turning point for science, business, and privacy
Simone Melo Quantum computers have a lot of power. They can revolutionize science, transform medicine, help to find a cure for diseases...
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Jan 15, 20214 min read


Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and COVID-19- Interview with Dr. Ian Walden
Simone Melo Connected home gadgets predicting human behavior, driverless cars, and robots cleaning the house might seem a futurist...
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Dec 1, 20206 min read


Economic diversification is vital to Greece COVID-19 recovery
Greece emerged as an outlier in the European fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The government responded swiftly and managed the...
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Sep 4, 20204 min read


How COVID-19 Disrupted the World and Challenged Society
by Deborah Wince-Smith (*) Photo by Nathaniel Yeo on Unsplash Nations around the world are grappling with a challenge unprecedented in...
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Jun 18, 20203 min read


Sustainability, Innovation, Competitiveness — An Interview with Bill Bohnett
Bill Bohnett at the 2019 GFCC Global Innovation Summit in Nur-Sultan, KZ GFCC sat down with Bill Bohnett, a leader in sustainability and...
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Dec 12, 20193 min read


Financial Innovation from the Favelas — The Transformative Power of Bottom-Up Innovation
By Marcelo de Felippes It is impossible to discuss technological innovations without adopting a forward looking mindset; the term...
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Oct 30, 20193 min read
Readiness for Innovation:A Reflection on the GFCC University and Research Leadership Forum Reports, Optimizing Innovation Alliances and Leveraging Extreme Innovation.
By Ken Sloan The two recent GFCC reports, Optimizing Innovation Alliances and Leveraging Extreme Innovation, make important contributions...
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Sep 26, 20195 min read


A New Era of Manufacturing
By Roberto Alvarez The globalization of manufacturing that took place from the ’90s to the early 2000’s saw the manufacturing industry...
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May 1, 20198 min read


A Guide to Accelerating Innovation
By Dr. Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan This article is a reproduction of an article originally posted here . At #GIS2018 , speaking on a...
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Mar 11, 20193 min read


The New Age of Illumination
Disruption Comes to the Innovation Landscape Humanity stands in the midst of the greatest revolutions in science and technology. A new...
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Nov 19, 20186 min read
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