For more than a decade researchers have been unleashing a deluge of information about the role of genes in disease, based on automated sequencing of DNA. Genetic tests on individual patients are slowly becoming more common, more detailed, and less costly.
No question about it: The world wants mobile medical apps (MMAs)—and demand won’t slow down any time soon.
“The demand for remote patient monitoring is growing dramatically,” says Jeannette Tighe, from the HealthTech Advisory practice at Sagentia, a global technology advisory and product development company headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.
Ordinarily, installing and connecting a new array of rooftop solar panels takes days, weeks, or even months because the hardware is complex and various permits are needed. Yesterday, on a frigid day in Charlestown, Massachusetts, researchers completed the process in about an hour.
Homeowners can install the system themselves, by gluing it to a rooftop. The permitting is handled by a combination of electronic sensors and software that communicates with local jurisdictions and utilities.
Sustainable solutions rely on organisations that link people, science and government, say Ashvin Dayal and Anna Brown.
Rapid urbanisation and climate change are exerting overwhelming pressure on cities in the developing world. And there is a sense among some experts, city managers and business leaders that only science and new technological solutions will enable cities to become resilient to the daunting array of shocks and stresses.
Of all the praise heaped upon Oculus, the virtual-reality company that Facebook acquired for $2 billion earlier this year, perhaps the most significant has been this: non-nauseating. I can testify to that after my visit last month to the groovy downtown Manhattan offices of Relevent, a marketing agency that has created a virtual-reality demo for HBO to help promote its hit series “Game of Thrones.” Without much small talk, Ian Cleary, Relevent’s vice president of “innovation and ideation,” escorted me into a steampunk cage the size of a phone booth, made of iron and wood.
The Green Climate Fund, which is the UN’s main instrument to transfer money to developing countries, in order to assist them in countering climate change, was launched in 2009 with the aim of raising climate finance of $100 billion a year by 2020. A substantial amount is expected to be raised in the run-up to the 2015 climate summit in Paris.
From marketplaces that help you find you a cleaner for your home to online wineries to personal styling services, eCommerce startups continue to attract the attention of VCs. However, it looks like the smartest money in venture capital are starting to pull back their investment activity into the eCommerce space.
In August 2012, Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon wrote on eCommerce startups, “The bear case is that scale and brand effects make e-commerce incumbents nearly unbeatable.” It looks like smart money VCs taking that to heart?
Executives have heard of the Internet of Things (IoT), but they’re understandably suspicious of all the hype. The one question that’s on all their minds is: where’s the money? Where and how will this new technology generate meaningful economic value for the enterprise? In the absence of a clear and compelling answer to this question, there’s a lot of interest, but relatively limited investment to date in a promising technology.
The European Commission is due to present its 300 billion euro investment plan next week. This plan is expected to rely heavily on the European Investment Bank (EIB), which could be put in charge of a new investment fund. EurActiv France reports.
The 300 billion euro investment plan, announced last July, is a challenge for the new Commission, which hopes to use it to combat unemployment, relaunch growth and regain the confidence of European citizens.
L'Institut Fraunhofer pour la recherche sur le silicate (ISAC, Wurtzbourg - Bavière) et l'Université de Stuttgart ont développé conjointement un procédé visant à récupérer le phosphate contenu dans les eaux usées. Ce projet est le fruit d'une subvention pour la recherche de la Fondation du Bade-Wurtemberg ("Stiftung Baden-Württemberg") et a fait l'objet d'un dépôt de brevet par le cabinet de conseil en propriété intellectuelle TLB de Karlsruhe ("Technologie-Lizenz-Büro").
