As we enter 2014, four key trends are going to bring both opportunity and peril for entrepreneurs and investors. Here are the changes you’ll want to keep an eye on in the coming year.
1. The Social Web: Beyond Friends and Social Media
Social media has become an inherent part of how we consume information and interact with each other on the web today. Statistics show that 71% of consumers have reposted content on social media sites in the previous month, and 25% have made online product recommendations.
According to a study released today by Juniper Research, the smart home market will reach $71 billion by 2018 — up from $33 billion in 2013, and $25 billion in 2012.
“BiosourceComp” deritzon proiektua gauzatzen ari da Leartiker. Horren helburua, biokonposatua den materiala maila industrialean sortzea da, gero injekzio bidez prozesatzeko, ibilgailuen enbrage pedalak egiteko.
Leartiker da proiektu europar honen buru, baina bestelako taldekide hauek ditu: APESA (Pau, Francia), la Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), IPREM (Pau, Francia) eta Química y Instituto de materiales poliméricos Fakultateak (POLYMAT) UPV/EHU-Polymat (Universidad del Pais Vasco).
El pasado mes de diciembre de 2013, MONBUS, uno de los líderes nacionales del transporte de viajeros en autocar, llegó a un acuerdo para implantar el sistema de gestión de flotas, FlotasNet®, de Fagor Electrónica, en sus autobuses.
El acuerdo implica una primera fase, donde se implementará el Sistema FlotasNet®, en unas 400 unidades, para posteriormente implementar en el resto de la flota de autobuses y microbuses, hasta completar los aproximadamente 800 vehículos de la flota.
Clickdrive wants to be the first open platform device that connects all driving apps and aftermarket monitors. The small black box, which plugs into an adapter under your steering wheel, lets you run several apps simultaneously from your smartphone, directly on the device itself, or on Clickdrive’s cloud platform.
“There are a bunch of driving apps coming out of various natures, but what we don’t have is the ability to use more than one at a time,” says Mark Sutheran, co-founder of Clickdrive, which is based in Singapore, but works with international car models.
"ITPKB", c'est le nom de l'enzyme dont les mécanismes d'action spécifiques dans l'aggravation de l'état des patients atteints de la maladie d'Alzheimer sont désormais mieux connus grâce à une étude ULg-ULB parue dans Brain. Les développements de cette étude sont prometteurs.
To be a great entrepreneur, you have to be a bit of a fortune teller, able to read the proverbial tea leaves and predict what your customers will want before they know they want it. Steve Jobs had that skill. Elon Musk has it, too. And yet sometimes, it takes a little guidance to figure out which way the winds of change are blowing.
I spoke with experts in the fields of education, health, biotech, and clean tech to find out what major changes are afoot this year in the world of innovation and how you can get in on the action. Here's what they said:
La empresa Fagor Healthcare despega al ámbito internacional comercializando Medical Dispenser en Francia y Reino Unido gracias a los acuerdos de distribución logrados en ambos países en el segundo semestre de 2013.
Estos acuerdos son un hito para esta empresa dedicada a desarrollar servicios para facilitar el trabajo diario del farmacéutico, ya que en algo más de un año Medical Dispenser estará presente en cuatro países con el gran trabajo de localización e implantación que eso conlleva.
Le projet Smartpipe [1], né en 2006 et touchant à son terme en 2013, avait pour but d'unifier les modèles de dégradation des matériaux et l'analyse des données de capteurs du Oil & Gas afin de pouvoir faire un diagnostique en temps réel des installations de pipelines.
Une demande en pipelines en augmentation et des besoins de produits adaptables aux conditions de l'Arctique
Scientists at GE Global Research are building a new kind of powerful battery that could revolutionize the renewables industry and remake the electric car. The technology, called the flow battery, is using water-based liquids to store electric charge.
