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US must embed digital technologies in infrastructure to seize next wave of economic growth

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

The United States must transform existing ‘brick-and-mortar’ physical infrastructure into digital infrastructure to seize the next wave of economic opportunities that will create jobs and improve people’s quality of life,…

Boston ranked top city to lead digital economy in USA

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Nitin Dahad |

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…

Innovation, technology, and sharing resources are key to transforming Africa

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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,…

Egypt lays foundations to spread tech parks beyond Cairo

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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…

Discover: how Arizona advances innovation and technology

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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…

The importance of governments in stimulating successful innovation

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Nitin Dahad |

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…

Techne Summit Alexandria brings together tech and innovation in Middle East and North Africa

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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…

Brazilian tech innovation sector booming despite political and economic crisis

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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…

New super materials: mile-wide breakthroughs, one atom thick

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

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…

My audience or yours? The “on-demand audience” challenge

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

Facebook and LinkedIn do it. Outbrain and Taboola do it. AppleNews, Medium, Tumblr, Flipboard, and a million community content sites do it. It’s called vertical publishing, the game-changing approach…