While Boston might be the best city in the US to lead the digital economy, it appears that Denver is ranked the top city for tech professionals to actually live…
A new report examining the top 25 cities in the US for their readiness to capitalize on the inevitable shift to the digital economy puts Boston at number one, followed…
A new business report on Africa says that technology and innovation will be the key to stimulating growth in Africa. In addition, at the eLearning conference taking place in Cairo,…
While the city of Alexandria in Egypt saw a major regional tech innovation and entrepreneurship conference take place last weekend, the country’s government officials were laying the foundation for nurturing…
What does it take to create incentives that advance local innovation and technology? That urgent question is on the mind of economic developers all over the world today. The answer is not simple. There will never be another Silicon Valley. But there is also no monopoly in regional leadership to support and promote promising technology…
Almost everywhere you look today, people talk about innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s true that in a world where governments are focused on minimizing public expenditure, that economic growth depends on…
The term ‘internet of things’ (IoT) now seems to be used widely in all kinds of industries and scenarios – whether in manufacturing, cities, healthcare, housing, or even business processes…
In a recently published book about entrepreneurship in Egypt, it highlighted how Egypt has always been a place for new ideas and inventions, but very few of them had seen…
by Leonardo Dicker Although the ongoing political unrest helped drag the national economy to a steep recession in the past couple of years, the tech innovation and startup sector has…
Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria reported in Nature Materials the discovery of a new super material, Carbyne. Created inside a Thermos tube of graphene, Carbyne is said to be stronger than both graphene and diamond, and around twice as stiff as the stiffest known materials. First isolated in 2004 by two Noble…