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Are You Ready for Green Growth?

Most Innovative Companies 2022 Two-thirds of the companies in BCG’s 2022 global innovation survey ranked climate and sustainability (C&S) as a top corporate priority. But only about one in five is ready to act. Are You Ready? More big companies make net-zero pledges every day. But only a few are prepared to develop the product, process, and business…

World’s Top Urban Resiliency Innovations Revealed

QBE and Leading Cities Announce AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Finalists Leading Cities, a global nonprofit driving city resiliency and sustainability, in partnership with QBE Insurance Group revealed ten of the world’s foremost urban technology startups in its QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge finalist line-up. Currently, in its fourth year, the program has become one of the largest…

Why explainable AI is essential for the growth of industry 4.0

Researchers from Incheon National University have performed of review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explainable AI (XAI) systems and how they will be essential for boosting the growth of industry 4.0 The first industrial revolution witnessed the birth of steam- and water-powered technology, and now, almost two centuries later, humanity has come a long way and is now experiencing…

160 Seals of Excellence to help innovative companies find funding

The EIC awarded Seals of Excellence to 160 companies who submitted their applications for the EIC Accelerator March 2022 cut-off These companies’ proposals were judged by independent experts to meet all the EIC’s highest quality standards and deserve funding but did not get it only due to budget limits. Seal of Excellence, the now well-known quality…

How Senegal’s site of human tragedy turned into opportunity

An event on Gorée island lay the foundations of Senegal’s now burgeoning start-up scene For Senegal, 2010 was a milestone year. It marked five decades of independence from colonial French rule. Internet access was vastly improved by the landing of MainOne’s submarine cable in west Africa. And the country’s first tech incubator, CTIC Dakar, sprung…

Siemens to Spend $1.75B for Smart City Provider Brightly

The deal will strengthen efforts by Siemens on smart city and infrastructure technology. Brightly, which sells its technology to public agencies, schools and hospitals, has some 12,000 clients Siemens Smart Infrastructure says it is buying Brightly, a software company whose clients include schools, governments and hospitals, for $1.575 billion in a deal meant to boost Siemens’…

New York State Purchases Robot Companions for the Elderly

The state has bought more than 800 ElliQ robots to combat loneliness in older adults New York State’s Office for the Aging, in charge of administering housing, transportation and health programs for the elderly, has purchased more than 800 robots to act as companions for older adults. The robot, ElliQ, was created by Intuition Robotics…

Twitter investors sue Musk over conduct

Investors accuse Musk of benefiting financially by delaying the disclosure of an initial 5 per cent stake in Twitter, which he had acquired by 14 March 2022 Investors launched a lawsuit against Elon Musk and Twitter over the handling of a proposed takeover of the social media company, accusing the billionaire of violating corporate laws,…

The Mobile Economy: Middle East & North Africa

Policy decisions are fundamental to accelerating MENA’s digital future Since the emergence of Covid-19, mobile networks have been instrumental in providing the reliable connectivity needed to sustain social and economic activities. As countries bring the pandemic under control, a priority for governments in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and elsewhere is to drive…

ESG – how can we measure how ‘good’ companies are?

Investors are increasingly putting money into companies that claim good ESG performance Nadja Picard, Partner, Global Reporting Leader, PwC, Germany: ESG is a relatively new global term that focuses on environmental, social and governance matters, which do affect various stakeholders across society. But it's also often distinguished from, and at the same time used as a…