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Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller
Preventing brain injury is a team sport. That’s why the NFL has teamed up with GE and Under Armour to promote some of the most innovative thinking on protecting against and diagnosing...
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The Most Valuable Currency
What’s the most critical currency in today’s global economy? Jobs.And they likely will be tomorrow’s, too. The shortage of job talent into the foreseeable future is staggering. In the Middle East and...
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How Governments Can Spark Entrepreneur-ship
Great ideas for new business ventures happen every day and everywhere. Some go far, while others never take off. Great ideas are at the heart of development; they allow economies to grow, and they...
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Building the Right Trade Policies to Support the Internet of Things
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, cloud computing and advanced analytics to help...
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From Quartz to Smartwatch — Will History Repeat Itself?
As smartwatches become more prevalent, it might be worthwhile for the venerable Swiss watch industry to reflect back on the turbulent 1970s following the advent of the quartz watch.Will history repeat...
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Europe’s Energy Essentials
At last month’s European Council meeting in Brussels, energy issues dominated the agenda — for the third time this year.Energy’s emergence as a focal point for European leaders makes sense, given that...
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Microscopic `Walkers' Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces
Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.Nature has developed a wide variety of methods for guiding particular cells, enzymes, and molecules...
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How To Mobilize Risk Management Tools Against IP Threats
In an increasingly competitive global economy, information and ideas are the fuel that makes companies viable, allowing them to grow and create jobs.Intellectual property (IP) — that covered by...
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How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when...
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Ideas May Strike Like Lightning, but Innovation Must Be Cultivated
The idea for an invention or a new technology may strike unexpectedly, but innovation — putting those ideas to work in our society and our economy — is no accident. It doesn’t just happen. It must be...
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Help Wanted: Ensuring the Success of Regional Collaborations
At a recent conference near Washington, D.C., the sound of deflation was palpable. No, this was not a financial conference; it was focused on closing America’s skills gap.Talk of these stubborn gaps...
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Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard
Starting in the late 1980s, the Pentagon launched a top-secret constellation of two-dozen navigation satellites designed to guide U.S. nuclear missiles precisely to their targets. Then the Cold War...
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Boosting Small Business Lending — Look to the U.K.
After a recent public consultation with the business community and financial services industry, the U.K. government has decided to enact a law that requires large lenders to share information with...
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Scaling Super-conductivity — Q&A with T.J. Wainerdi
Superconductors have been around for decades now — think the Large Hadron Collider, or an MRI. Yet while most superconducting wiring and other material requires extremely cold conditions (around -450...
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Magic in the Moonlight
Our ancestors knew when to plant by looking at it, ship captains navigate by it, and wolves howl at it … and now its draw will power our cities. After solar power, moon power — or more exactly tidal...
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Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” — Tuli Kupferberg, American poetInnovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology, behavior,...
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Transforming STEM Education
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to...
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Robots: Love ‘Em Or Hate ‘Em, They’re Here To Stay
Stacey: Well, it seems we all survived the mid-term elections in spite of the robots.Ed: Robots, what robots?Stacey: Robo-calls. Those annoying automatic messages from the candidates trying to get you...
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How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture —...
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Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important...
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