China, USA and Japan will be top five users of 5G technology by 2025
China, the USA and Japan will have the highest number of 5G connections by 2025, and together, these three countries will have 55 percent of all 5G connections by then.…
Category: Innovation
Agtech (or agritech) continues to come to the fore
By Nitin Dahad Agtech (or agritech) seems to be a major topic of interest among our audience involved in economic development, policymaking and technology innovation. Since we published an article…
Medellin and Miami collaboration boosts global growth ambition of Colombia innovation capital
By Nitin Dahad Two years ago, I interviewed Diego Molano Vega, the then minister for ICT for Colombia on the country’s policy to alleviate poverty and create jobs through the…
$2.5m innovation fund supports use of data in poor countries
A new $2.5m innovation fund led by the World Bank will support ideas to improve the production, management and use of data in poor countries. The new initiative seeks to…
The top U.S. states best positioned for data-driven innovation
Better use of data will be a crucial driver of economic and societal progress in the future. Widespread adoption of data analytics and artificial intelligence is expected to contribute hundreds…
Nature index measures impact of academic research on innovation
The Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement sheds new light on the impact academic research is having on innovation by examining how research articles from 200 institutions are cited in third…
The next Silicon Valley is everywhere: join the debate in Toronto, Istanbul – and here
by Nitin Dahad The ‘next’ Silicon Valley is everywhere, with discussions about how to nurture innovation-based economic development dominating the conversation, as it will in Toronto and Istanbul next month.…
Shanghai based science park supports Saint-Gobain to innovate in smart cities and IoT
Industrial corporation Saint-Gobain is working with a science park in Shanghai to support innovation and establish cooperation in smart cities, energy saving, new materials and IoT (internet of things), as…
Tech innovation index maps industrial clusters in the UK
The UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI) and the Digital Catapult have published the UK Tech Innovation Index, showing the UK’s most active innovation communities by industry sector, in an online…
Testbeds to provide real running systems to validate IoT in multiple industries
A convergence of forces over the last few years – proliferation of connected sensors, low cost computing and storage, and vastly improved data analytics – has seen an explosion in…