A one-stop scientific website bringing together worldwide relevant data on climate change was launched in France last week (20 November), with the hope of contributing to the fight against global warming.
The LSCE, a French laboratory on climate and environment science, has recently launched a unique project called Global Carbon Atlas. The aim of the programme is to collect all scientific data on carbon dioxide, even with divergent results.
Evaluar el potencial de negocio ligado al concepto de las Smart Cities será el propósito de la sesión monográfica DREAMWORKS que se llevará a cabo en el Palacio de Otalora de Aretxabaleta, el 11 de Diciembre de 2013.
Así, el formato de esta edición específica DREAMWORKS en el ámbito de las Smart Cities será el siguiente:
1.- Ilustración de experiencias de negocio relacionadas con el ámbito de las Smart Cities, a cargo de las entidades siguientes:
Finalmente ya está disponible para pre-ordenar la Copenhagen Wheel, idea que surgió cuatro años atrás en los laboratorios del MIT. Con 699 dólares se podrá transformar cualquier bicicleta en una eléctrica y con funciones inteligente para el seguimiento y análisis de la velocidad y el recorrido.
“In the coming decade, wearable technology will touch nearly every aspect of our lives. It will allow us to bring the power of the Internet to everything we do.” –Marcus Weller, Ph.D.
It was a hot summer day in Spain. I had been riding my motorcycle along the beautiful, sun-drenched streets of a University campus I was visiting in Barcelona when I looked over to the right to read a street sign. Just then, a little red Smart car in front of me slammed on the brakes. I braced for impact, and then seemed to watch in slow motion as I smashed into the back of the car, totaling my bike. (As a side note, Smart cars are a lot more solid than they look.) I escaped with only minor injuries, but something deep in my psyche had been triggered.
VCs able to consistently invest in healthcare's largest exit outcomes are a rarity. New Enterprise Associates, OrbiMed Advisors and Alta Partners top the charts with six $500M+ exits each. Here is the data.
Building a billion-dollar tech company is hard, identifying and investing in these companies early is harder still. Our previous brief detailed how exceedingly rare VCs who invest in billion dollar tech exits are. We wanted to see what these numbers looked like within healthcare venture capital to see if the trends observable in tech carried over to the healthcare sector. Here is the data.
Venture investors are betting big on the promise of the "Connected Home." While early-stage deal activity is heating up, the bulk of funding thus far has been piled into huge financing rounds.
From smart locks to WiFi-enabled doorbells, a range of new technologies are ushering in the rise of the “The Connected Home.” Like the movement to “quantify” the physical body using Internet-enabled sensors, startups focused on the connected home are providing services for your home ranging from security, temperature management and lighting controls and are doing in ways that leverages data, hardware and internet and mobile software.
A lo largo de la mañana de ayer, 3 de diciembre de 2013, se desarrolló la jornada titulada “la farmacia asistencial y la seguridad de los pacientes”. Se celebró en el Polo de Innovación Garaia de Mondragón y fue organizada por MONDRAGON Health y SEDISA, la Sociedad Española de Directivos de la Salud.
El pasado 22 de noviembre, en la ciudad de Rotterdam, se celebró la Grande Finale de la competición de startups Get in The Ring. Smadex se alzó finalmente con el segundo puesto, en una final internacional a la que sólo llegaron las 8 mejores startups en un torneo que reunió emprendedores de 32 países.
Business analytics company SumAllis announcing that it has raised $4 million in new funding from existing investors Battery Ventures and Wellington Partners, as well as an additional $1 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank.
The company allows customers to connect a wide range of services, including social networks like Facebook and Twitter, email marketing tools like MailChimp and Constant Contact, payment providers like Amazon Payments and PayPal, and ad platforms like Bing Ads and Google AdWords. Businesses can then view and analyze all of that data from a single interface.
El próximo día 16 de diciembre se llevará a cabo una nueva sesión del Comité de Seguimiento de Proyectos del BAC de MONDRAGON. En el curso de esta sesión se procederá al lanzamiento de los proyectos integrados en la 3ª generación del BAC de MONDRAGON.
En efecto, la Comisión Gestora de la Fundación MONDRAGÓN aprobó recientemente la financiación de los proyectos presentados en el marco de la 3ª Generación de Planes de Negocio, que son los siguientes:
