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What the Rise of Industrial Internet Means for Cyber Security
Security isn’t what it used to be. Thirty years ago, it was fence with a locked gate and a guard posted outside a data center. Today, it’s a multi-layered strategy encompassing people, processes,...
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Protecting Infrastructure with Smarter CPS
Saurabh Amin builds resiliency in essential infrastructure networks for transportation, energy and water distribution.Security of IT networks is continually being improved to protect against malicious...
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Being Sustainable Makes You More Competitive — Not Less
For the last three years, the World Economic Forum has been working on better analysing and measuring how sustainability relates to national competitiveness.Indeed, since the Global Competitiveness...
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Will the Sun Become the World’s Dominant Source of Power?
Every day, somewhere in the world, up to 100 megawatts of new solar power goes online. The global capacity to transform sunrays into clean, carbon-free electricity topped 150 gigawatts of this year,...
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The U.S. Middle Market Has Found a Higher Gear
U.S. unemployment has at long last fallen below 6 percent. Gross domestic product growth has recovered following a stumble early in the year. The economy seems to have settled into a decent growth rate...
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Cultural Shift in the Industrial Internet Age — Q&A with Edward Youdell
The rise of the Industrial Internet and Big Data has the power to transform industries, with data captured by connected machines enabling companies to capture efficiencies across operations and...
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National Standards for Strong Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship, a time-tested model of worker training, can help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in the United States. Expanding apprenticeship, however, will require employers to...
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The US and EU — Promoting Growth Through Trade
In 1986, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. The aftermath of the decades-long Vietnam War and the mismanagement of the economy left the majority of the country in abject poverty,...
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Youth Lighting the Way in Africa
Converting urine into electricity, creating a more efficient solar cell, distributing a do-it-yourself solar lamp — these are just a few of the innovations that are helping to address Africa’s energy...
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Revisiting the Doctor Visit
Today we are more in tune with our health than any other time in history. This new focus on health and change in consumer behavior is largely being driven by startups in Silicon Valley and innovative...
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Small, Not Big
Conversations about innovation are everywhere: in magazines and newspapers, conference rooms and coffee shops.But where does innovation come from and how can its pace be sped up? How can companies...
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Why Advanced Materials are Drivers for the Future Economy — Q&A with Angela...
Carbon fibre composites, ceramics, nanomaterials and other advanced materials with high-performance characteristics are increasingly finding their way into automobiles, building materials, clothing and...
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Addressing Climate Change in the Absence of Policy
For the past two decades, governments, companies and non-governmental organizations concerned about climate change have looked to comprehensive global and national policy solutions.While this approach...
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How Maryland Is Wooing Foreign Startups
If you’re a foreign entrepreneur looking to break into the U.S. market, the State of Maryland wants to help.On the third floor of a nondescript office building perched on a busy commercial strip in...
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Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to New Depths
The challenges of offshore, deep sea drilling are, in a word, immense. Imagine a place three miles below the surface of the ocean, where there is almost complete darkness and the pressure exerted on...
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Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation. The...
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ITA Expansion Agreement a Victory for Global Innovation Economy
The United States and China aren’t the only potential victors to emerge this week from an agreement to expand a two-decade-old list of information and communications technology (ICT) products that can...
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Taking the Carbon Out of Power Markets — Q&A with Manuel Baritaud
As countries around the world seek to address climate change, one obvious place to focus is power production.Not only does electricity generation account for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2...
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Rise of the Re-Invention Economy
As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch.Some say computers will displace a vast array of human work. Many others argue it polarizes the labor market: in a...
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The Smart Home — When Will People Get It?
Have you received your Robot Butler yet?Don’t hold your breath — it doesn’t exist. Instead, the fake robots that arrived at the doorstep of Martha Stewart and other celebrities earlier this month were...
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