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Huawei Doubles Down on Support for Green and Digital Transition in Europe

Huawei Doubles Down on Support for Green and Digital Transition in Europe

Jim Lu: ”Huawei will continue to stay customer-centric, create value for customers and partners, strengthen innovative collaboration with European partners, help cultivate local digital and green talent, and further grow our R&D investment in Europe. We look forward to doing our part to accelerate Europe's green and digital transition." Huawei kicked off its annual flagship…
Accredify from Singapore beats 260 startups to win the 2023 Supernova Challenge

Accredify from Singapore beats 260 startups to win the 2023 Supernova Challenge

The Supernova Challenge is the biggest pitch competition in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia Accredify, a Singapore-based startup and service provider for issuing verifiable documents and information, has emerged as the champion of the 2023 Supernova Challenge at Expand North Star Dubai (https://www.ExpandNorthStar.com/), the world's largest startup event. The startup received the $100,000…
Leading Cities Announces Top 10 Urban Sustainability Solutions for 2023

Leading Cities Announces Top 10 Urban Sustainability Solutions for 2023

This groundbreaking program has established itself as one of the world's largest initiatives of its kind, bridging the gap between innovative startups and urban centers Leading Cities, the global nonprofit dedicated to advancing city resiliency and sustainability, in collaboration with QBE Insurance Group, is thrilled to unveil the top ten urban technology startups chosen as…
New Research Professor for Biotechnology at VTT: Not only materials need updating - processes do, as well

New Research Professor for Biotechnology at VTT: Not only materials need updating – processes do, as well

According to Yvonne Nygård, the focus of biotechnology research must be shifted even more towards production processes Rapid changes in society mean that the production of materials will look very different in the future than it does today. Solutions developed in biotechnology research must be put into practice, such as in the production of plastics…
Innovation Procurement – a powerful public policy tool

Innovation Procurement – a powerful public policy tool

It can boost business opportunities for SMEs and startups, support innovation and research investment, or provide bespoke and more adapted solutions in public services The European Commission defines Innovation procurement as “any procurement that buys the process of innovation – research and development services – with (partial) outcomes, or buys the outcomes of innovation”. It is an…
European Innovation Council Transition results: 19 projects selected to mature from cutting edge science to market readiness

European Innovation Council Transition results: 19 projects selected to mature from cutting edge science to market readiness

For the first time, the call for challenge funding was open to projects that follow up results achieved by any project under Horizon The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 19 projects following the April 2023 EIC Transition cut-off. These successful proposals, selected among 180 eligible submissions, will receive altogether €46.76 million of EU financial…
Europe looks to virtual factories in new industrial revolution

Europe looks to virtual factories in new industrial revolution

EU manufacturers are increasingly embracing digital technologies to improve agility A plant that makes electric shavers in the northern Dutch town of Drachten is gearing up for a test meant to help European industry thrive in increasingly competitive international markets. The plant run by consumer-electronics company Philips is part of a research project that received…
Indra positions Cape Verde at the forefront of global air traffic management

Indra positions Cape Verde at the forefront of global air traffic management

The renovation will contribute to improving the overall global traffic situation, given the key role Cape Verde plays in the management of a large number of transatlantic routes Indra has modernized the oceanic air traffic control center on Sal Island and the control towers in Santiago, Boa Vista, São Vicente and Sal with state-of-the-art technology,…
The packaging industry embraces digital transformation: challenges and opportunities

The packaging industry embraces digital transformation: challenges and opportunities

The research indicates that digital transformation has ceased to be an exclusive differentiating aspect of innovative companies to become an unstoppable phenomenon Within the framework of the Packaging Talks event, organized by the Packaging Cluster the conclusions of the digital barometer carried out together with the Kaizen Institute were presented, where the growing importance of digital transformation in…
China operators join GSMA Open Gateway initiative

China operators join GSMA Open Gateway initiative

The GSMA expanded membership to its Open Gateway initiative by adding China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, taking support to 29 mobile operators globally China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom collectively handle 1.7 billion mobile connections, suggesting the Open Gateway initiative is gathering pace. The initiative provides a framework of common network APIs…