October 2017 - The Next Silicon Valley

Amazon receives 238 bids for HQ2: what does that say about economic development organizations?

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

The big story in the economic development world in recent weeks has been Amazon’s search for its location for its second headquarters. In the last week, it announced that it…

Immersive technology in sports likely to drive initial mobile augmented reality market

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

Immersive technology in sports could be one of the applications that give augmented reality / virtual reality (AR / VR) a boost. As we published in Gartner’s top 10 technology…

Technology summit aims to promote India-EU trade and collaboration

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

As the 14th annual summit between India and the European Union (EU) took place in New Delhi on 6 October 2017, the European think tank Bruegel published data to suggest…

New Saudi Arabia mega-city project ‘will be as transformative to cities as smartphone was to telephones’

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

Is it possible to create a completely new high-tech mega-city on a totally green field site that incorporates all that technology offers today, and create a test-bed for developing the…

Dublin boosts smart city initiative with IoT network and innovation fund

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

A mobile operator and city council have partnered to implement a low power wide area network technology as part of a smart city initiative, and also announced an innovation fund…

Top 10 strategic technology trends 2018 will be based on ‘intelligent digital mesh’

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

Every year in October, research firm Gartner publishes its top 10 strategic technology trends for the following year. This year, it says the top trends tie into the ‘intelligent digital…

Over 264 million service robots expected to be in use worldwide by 2026

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

The installed base of service robots reached 29.6 million worldwide at the end of 2016, and will grow to 264 million by 2026. The research from Berg Insight says the…

Globalization and regional economic development needs fresh thinking

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

Will halting globalization improve the lot of deprived regions and countries? Are the moves by the governments in the US, UK and some others to restrict globalization going to revive…

Smart lighting in streets forms foundation for quick deployment of smart cities

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

Earlier this year at a conference in Yinchuan, China, the City of San Diego illustrated how it used street lights and smart lighting as the backbone of its current and…

Index ranks best performing cities in China

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

A new index ranking the best performing cities in China puts Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Western China, at the top. Shenzhen and Shanghai are ranked fourth and…