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by Tim Kastelle Everyone wants to innovate more, and many people don’t know where to start. Which is weird, since we actually know quite a bit about how innovation works. Here is a list o...
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Stanford University’s Center for Professional Development will expand its Online Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, which was launched in September 2012, by rolling out...
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By Henry Doss Blink . . . and ten years pass by. It’s now 2023. A brand new generation of business and institutional leaders is taking the reins. The world has continued to shrink and is...
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by Jeffrey Phillips The pervasive lack of enthusiasm or even awareness of time in regards to innovation is a constant source of amazement for me. In organizations transfixed by time, spee...
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The combination of falling industrial production in the Euro Zone, fears of rising inflation in China, and volatility in the U.S. as Washington moves from the fiscal cliff to debt ceiling...
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By Huw Andrews and Stephen Kemper Since the launch of reform and opening-up policy in 1978, "made in China" products have established China as the world's factory. However, the high-value...
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By Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman The conventional wisdom today is that copying is bad for creativity. If we allow people to copy new inventions, the thinking goes, no one will create...
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By Jon Stein If the cover of The Economist is any indication of public sentiment – and it often is – many are speculating that innovation is dead. Two separate articles – “ Has the ideas...
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By Mia Shanley Spotify, Mojang and Wrapp, respectively music, games and gift services winning online markets worldwide, are among tech start-ups that have made Sweden Europe's hottest spo...
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Innovation has become the holy grail. Finding innovation is almost a sacred quest for the solution that will create growth, and open new eras of prosperity and well-being. Unfortunately,...
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By Luke Tanen Have you ever heard a word so many times that it starts to lose all meaning? This often happens in the business world. I’m concerned that this may happen to the word...
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by Paul Hobcraft The World Economic Forum begins agenda for this year’s meeting in Davos, taking place 23-27 January, 2013 and innovation is back on the agenda, big time. The agenda is a...
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By Peter Diamandis On Why Innovation Will Take off We're going from, in 2010, just shy of two billion people connected on the Internet, to, by 2020, five billion people. Three billion new...
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By Daniel Saks Many 9-to-5-ers dream of being their own bosses, but starting a company is risky business. Over half of all small businesses don’t make it, and the numbers are even worse i...
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by Dominic Basulto If there’s one trend in 2013 that’s capable of changing the way we think about clean energy, it’s the professionalization of the crowdfunding movement. California-based...
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Travelhack is a competition that inspires software developers to create apps and services that make travelling by public transportation a better experience. The organizations behind the...
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By Stephan Liozu Are you able to clearly articulate the value proposition for your innovation, your business model, or your startup? Can you recite in one quick minute this value...
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By Stefan Lindegaard Given the maturity of open innovation and crowdsourcing today, it has become fairly common to bring external resources into an innovation process. Just check this lis...
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While we hear of the effect climate change is having around the world, it is refreshing to hear of innovative ways that EU countries are helping to reduce the damage. In a pan-European...
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The Swedish space technology company Umbilical Design has been appointed to the Swedish node within the ESA Technology Transfer Network. The network consists of 12 national technology...
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By David K. Williams and Mary Michelle Scott What's the biggest impediment to innovation within an organization? Fear. As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances ...
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By Nicholas D. Evans Innovation is one of those terms that means many things to many people. Depending upon who you speak to, you'll get a number of equally valid definitions and...
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Enterprise organisations are increasingly tapping start-ups to gain early access innovative and potentially disruptive technologies In the 1990s and 2000s, the focus of enterprise IT...
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By Stephanie Nebehay China has overtaken the United States to become the world's biggest processor of patent applications, giving an innovative edge to Beijing's economic and industrial...
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By Robin Emmott A system that made patent registration up to 60 times more expensive in Europe than in China is being scrapped in favor of a one-size-fits-all pan-European process, EU...
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"This programme is an opportunity for Europe to invest in its future and to help us get out of the crisis ", said the industry committee chair, Amalia Sartori (EPP, IT), warning against...
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By James Gardner Bottom-up innovation is often dismissed by innovation consultants and theorists as being mainly incremental, and therefore strategically uninteresting. Why have your fron...
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Sustainable business innovation is good business; researchers from Aalto University, Finland have proved. The researchers tested how sustainability business innovations and the market val...
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After a long day of innovation workshops, I ask the fateful question - does anyone have any questions about what we've done today? Inevitably one hand goes up. The question: can you tell...
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By Tim Kastelle Wouldn’t it be great if you could do customer service like Zappos ? Or design like Apple ? Or innovation like 3M ? Who wouldn’t want to be like those firms? Well, it’s not...
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InnoCentive, and BeyondPolio, an initiative of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and the investment firm Spencer Trask, recently announced the solutions of its first Innovation Challenge...
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Sanitation and waste management represent a daily challenge to those living in the developing world, particularly those in poor, urban areas. Nearly 1.5 million people in Kumasi, Ghana's...
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Every manager would like to be Steve Jobs, but very few ever even come close. Many seek out advice, read case studies and go to workshops to help guide them. Yet still, very few companies...
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By Hugh Pickens Salvatore Iaconesi, a software engineer at La Sapienza University of Rome, writes that when he was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, his first idea was to seek other...
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7 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain And Be More Innovative By Stephen Shapiro You are alive today. You were alive yesterday. You were alive the day before that. This is good news from a surviva...
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The Swedish robotics initiative Robotdalen arranges the international competition - the Robotdalen Innovation Award - aimed at innovators with commercially valid robotics solutions. The...
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“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh When I was very young, I couldn’t read. But then, in...
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By Nilofer Merchant You can find plenty of people who disregard bigger enterprises, stating they are not the future. Plenty of people espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate....
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by R. Randall Padfield The Sikorsky Innovations Entrepreneurial Challenge, now in its second year, saw a significant increase in entries over last year, a sign that the competition is...
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By Nicola Smith First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Innovation is NOT technology. Technology is often a driver and enabler of innovation, but innovation itself is more about the...
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Richard Northcote of Bayer Material Science spoke at a Globe Forum breakfast meeting this week. Northcote has recently been appointed Head of Sustainability at Bayer MaterialScience in...
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By Kevin McFarthing How do large companies pursue radical innovation? You know, the kind of new product that changes or creates a market. There is a school of thought that says large...
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The World Bank group said is launching a $60 million equity financing facility to help kick-start small companies that sell goods and services aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in...
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A newly established organization will help Swedish cleantech companies to succeed in India. “The need for new solutions is tremendous in the energy sector”, says S Raghupathy, Executive...
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by Chris Deary Can crowdsourcing provide the answers to one of mankind's biggest challenges, namely how to sustain an ever-growing population in a world of ever-diminishing resources? A...
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Last November, Lufthansa Cargo, a subsidiary of the behemoth German airline, invited its customers as well as strangers to submit ideas aimed at improving supply chain as well as general...
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Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer goods manufacturers, has released a new set of challenges to the world's innovation community to help the business deliver on its sustainable...
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By Braden Kelly I had the opportunity to interview Moises Norena, Director of Global Innovation, Whirlpool Corporation, about open innovation participation, strategies, and barriers to...
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CBRE Group has announced the launch of the Real Green Research Challenge (RGRC), a four-year, US$1 million commitment to fund leading-edge sustainability research and innovation relating ...
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Few industries are as mired in outdated practices and slow to adopt technology as construction. Whether times are good, or not, contractors and tradespeople generally do things the way...
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Anolytech received this year's Cleantech Company of the Year Award and the prize sum of 100 000 Swedish crowns. The reward ceremony completed Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day 2012 -...
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Last week GE published the results of the second edition of its ‘GE EU Innovation Barometer’ an independent survey of 260 Brussels influencers supplemented by several interviews and a...
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Coca-Cola is stepping away from a closed, protective approach to innovation in favour of open methods such as crowdsourcing and co-creation for its new product development programs. The...
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Innovation has proven to be Bayer AG’s “competitive weapon” yet in order to foster innovation within industries, companies must take several steps to ensure success, chairman and CEO Mari...
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The European Commission recently launched an initiative to coordinate and focus European research and innovation in transport. The aim is to speed up the deployment of new transport means...
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By Jeffrey Phillips Many executives want to innovate at just the right time, but the right time never seems to surface. There's always a reason to avoid innovating right now, and certainl...
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The U.S. Commerce Department Delegation conducted a workshop and symposium in Brussels July 10, 2012. It gathered experts from the United States and EU to discuss the topic of increasing...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital Perhaps it was no surprise when Mary Schapiro, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told a House subcommittee that the Securities and Exchange...
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In our first introductory article, we drew a parallel between the Balkans and the Northern Europe being a true European model to which the Balkan countries should look to get new positive...
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By Jessica Day Businesses are always under pressure to reduce their spending and improve their bottom line – that’s just the nature of commerce. But, in recent years, that trend has...
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By Martin Zwilling Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the...
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In today’s economic climate, knowing how to foster innovation and entrepreneurship is essential to standing out above the crowd. Faculty at Stanford’s engineering and business schools...
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By Soren Kaplan Have you ever come across someone who exhibits “wet blanket” behavior? We recognize it when we experience it. Simple words extinguish ideas, zap energy, and gobble up...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital Crowd funding is exempt from ‘held of record’ calculation in regards to registration requirements under 12g of SEC 1934 Act. But among the issues that could...
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The selection committee has presented the companies that will be competing for the Cleantech Company of the Year award and a cash prize of SEK 100 000. The nominees are carefully selected...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital Intermediaries, as set out in the Act, will be required to obtain background and history checks on officers, directors and certain affiliates of the issuer. O...
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By Tim Bailey Though we may all believe our children are brilliant, it is sometimes difficult to prove that to the rest of the world. The Conrad Foundation is giving them a chance to prov...
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By Colin Chartres At the forefront of an important agricultural revolution in the developing world is not a leading scientist or a tireless advocate. Instead, the leader is a farmer. His...
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Crowd funding for projects and companies is nothing new. In the online arena, however, it is quite young - in 1997 fans of the UK rock group Marillion ran the first recognized Internet...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital Consumer Protection Investor protection is a key part of any legislation that seeks to open up opportunities to the general public. Along these lines, we’ve...
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By Stefan Lindegaard There will be people within your organization who will fight against the use of social media and even against the very notion of open innovation. As I wrote in my fir...
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The EU Commission and local agencies are looking to spur job creation and this starts with equipping their 28 million Small Medium-size Enterprises and startups with economic tools and...
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4 Ways to Use Social Enterprising to Drive Innovation By Christine Comaford "Social enterprising and engineering give us the ability to innovate using many minds instantly, as opposed to...
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By Jon Gordon Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, was once asked the most important characteristic of a leader. Optimism was his answer. After all, pessimists don’t start and build successful...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital Advertising The Act already addresses, and prohibits compensation for several categories of activities, including the purchase of potential investor...
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By Donna Gordon Blankinship These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still...
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By The Young Entrepreneur Council Daily life at a startup is inherently exciting. Since capital is limited, teams are small, allowing each employee to wear multiple hats and fulfill fluid...
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By Angela D'Ercole From the over 7,000 unique links shared on the Twitter #innovation community in the past week, a number of stories numbered the numerous tips and traps faced when...
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By Stefan Lindegaard We can call it open innovation, crowdsourcing or co-creation – or something else. In short, it is about bringing external input to an innovation process and this is n...
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By David Drake - LDJ Capital CFIRA representatives have already met with the members of the Corporate Finance, Trading and Markets and Office of the Compliance Inspection Divisions of the...
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By Anita Tregner-Mlinaric, Operations Officer with USAID Partners for Financial Stability and Globe Forum's Regional Country Associate for the Balkan region It has been twenty-two years...
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By Adam Hartung Photo: Tesla Motors The news is not good for U.S. auto companies. Automakers are resorting to fairly radical promotional programs to spur sales. Chevrolet is offering a...
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By Marie Androv KTH and a group of industrial partners have been granted $1.5 million for large-scale development of new sustainable production systems for gas sensors. Current and future...
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Bombardier Transportation has announced the winners of its interactive YouCity innovation contest. The competition demonstrates what smart, interconnected urban mobility could look like i...
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Trelleborg launches the Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Innovation Award. As Trelleborg continues to pioneer new sealing developments, ideas are being sought that can provide engineering,...
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By Sheila Shayon Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired's then contributor Jeff Howe, evolving into a marketing tool by 2010 for brands of all sizes — and it's still going strong....
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By David Lewis Innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development...
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By Victor W. Hwang Last week, a remarkable thing happened. 400 people from 49 countries gathered in Silicon Valley for an ambitious vision. They convened to do something that had never be...
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By Jennifer M. Freedman Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore are the most innovative countries in the world, according to a study by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organizati...
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Scientists Without Borders and its partners have issued a challenge on NineSights(TM), NineSigma's new open innovation social media platform. The organization will provide a reward of up ...
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By Vivek Wadhwa and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran It seems like a really difficult time to be an entrepreneurial innovator in America. The venture capital industry has grown risk averse, and...
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By Joe McKendrick Photo: NASA Malcolm Gladwell famously posited that the world’s greatest minds and talent get that way because they mastered their expertise through 10,000 hours of...
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Tigo general manager Diego Gutierrez has announced that Millicom International Cellular S.A (MIC), the Group Company, has been recognised as one of the 15 winners in the G20 Challenge on...
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By Maddy Miller Crowdsourcing is no longer considered to have an all-encompassing definition and definitely no longer is limited to “elementary-level tasks.” New “crowd” terms are popping...
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By Sophie Curtis Creatives in the UK will soon have a new way to pitch for funds to start new studios or labels, thanks to the launch of a new website called Seedrs, which enables start-u...
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Multi-barrier approach improves water use efficiency up to 35%; Company pilot project wins International Water Association Award The Coca-Cola Company has developed and tested at commerci...
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It's a strange feeling the first time you come to Sarajevo. Knowing what has happend there, it felt strange to sit in the taxi on the way to the center of Sarajevo and see signs for Mosda...
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By Wachiraporn Janrut, ScandAsia Photo: SAS SAS has recently launched a crowd sourcing portal, My SAS Idea ( mysasidea.flysas.net ), where customers are invited to share their ideas of ho...
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By Shawn Hess, WebProNews Ford Motors has been doing everything they can think of to facilitate innovation and a creative spirit in the automotive community. The company has changed their...
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Poland is a country that has all the makings of a prime mover in Europe. A country with 48 million inhabitants, one of the best GDP growths in Europe and most of all, Poland and the Polis...
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By Katie Branca, Environmental Finance Businesses must embrace radical change in order to survive in an economy increasingly driven by sustainability issues, according to a report from...
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