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Semiconductor Chipmakers in Taiwan - TSMC and more

Semiconductor Chipmakers in Taiwan - TSMC and more

Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies,

Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies

London UK - Global Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters

A collection of resources about London's startup ecosystem, showcasing its role as a global hub f...

CBA and FabLabs from MIT - DIY projects and the Maker Movement

CBA (center for bits and atoms) and FabLabs from MIT - DIY projects and the Maker Movement

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity Safety and Disposal

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity

Solar Panels, Energy, Agrivoltaics and Agriculture, Farming

Solar Panels, Energy, Agrivoltaics and Agriculture, Farming

Startups with a focus on Transportation, Frieght, Logistics, Shipping and Technology

Startups with a focus on Transportation, Frieght, Logistics, Shipping and Technology

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Mechanical watches - design

Mechanical watches - design

European governments and investment in scientific research, innovation

European governments and investment in scientific research, innovation

DARPA - defense advanced research projects agency, USA

DARPA - defense advanced research projects agency, USA

Managing, Leading Innovative Teams, Creativity

Managing, Leading Innovative Teams, Creativity

Creativity and Innovation at Work - management, teams, incentives

a collection of articles about Curiosity, Innovation and Companies: HR, Continuing Education and ...

High speed trains - technology, innovation

High speed trains - technology, innovation

Samsung - Semiconductor Chipmakers

Samsung - Semiconductor Chipmakers

Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

A collection of articles about Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

Aging, Psychology and HealthCare Innovation

Aging, Psychology and HealthCare Innovation

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Article

Ivory sour. Universities are failing to boost economic growth

How universities contribute to slow economic growth. Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use | Finance & economics (2024)


Article

With ASML, does Europe at last have an answer to Silicon Valley?

Silicon lowlands. ASML, a mighty Dutch tech firm, is at the heart of a critical supply chain | Business (2024)


Article

Building better batteries. Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium

Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither | Leaders (2023)


Article

Pivotal: Flying cars. No license necessary

A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale. No pilot’s licence will be necessary to fly the Helix | Science & technology (2023)


Article

Chip making. Taiwan will not surrender its semiconductor supremacy

Shielding the shield. Taiwan is shoring up its silicon supremacy. How to defend an industry that everyone covets | Business (2023)


Article

America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)


Article

Big business: America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple

Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)


Article

Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat

Singapore and food security. The home of cultivated meat. Singapore has also become the global launchpad for foods made through precision fermenta... (2023)


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These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes and superhero skins | MIT Technology Review

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin. (2023)


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Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism

Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism. (2021)


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Radical Research. Healthy Curiosity | The Economist

How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)


Article

Fake snow – the science of how it's made and how it affects performance - The Conversation

Snowmaking machines can produce enough snow to cover a run, but artificial snow is very different from natural flakes that fall from the sky. Th... (2022)


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Facebook Meta’s NPE team takes a global focus with seed-stage investments, offices in emerging markets

Meta’s (formerly, Facebook’s) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been foc... (2021)


Article

How does progress happen? - Vox

The discipline of "progress studies" wants to figure out what drives discoveries and inventions so we can supercharge human flourishing. (2021)


Article

The Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality - Yale E360

Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major h... (2021)


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New, 800V, electric cars, will recharge in half the time | The Economist

Pump up the voltage! | Science & technology (2021)


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Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?

Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)


Article

QR Codes - AVC

QR Codes have been with us for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. They were invented in 1994 in Japan for use in the automotive indus... (2021)


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Why There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Startup Within a Big Company’ | by Hunter Walk | Feb, 2021 | Marker

I’d exchanged DMs with Waze co-founder and CEO Noam Bardin a few weeks back to ask about learnings from his last few years inside Google. Waze is t... (2021)


Article

People with creative personalities really do see the world differently

How we see the world depends on certain aspects of our personality. As Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire explain in their book Wired to C... (2020)


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Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test

The hyperloop has finally carried human passengers. Virgin Hyperloop conducted a test in the desert outside Las Vegas, with two people traveling in... (2020)


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MIT develops a battery-free method for navigating underwater that could transform ocean exploration

MIT has developed a new navigation system designed for use underwater that could do for underwater wayfinding what GPS has done for travel on and a... (2020)


Article

Innovation, Manufacturing and Policy: Why tech didn’t save us from covid-19

Technology has failed the US and much of the rest of the world in its most important role: keeping us alive and healthy. As I write this, more than... (2020)


Article

Early Work - Paul Graham essay

October 2020 One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an i... (2020)


Article

India's new paper Covid-19 test could be a ‘game changer’

The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on gene-editing technology called Crispr. He believes the Feluda test could ... (2020)


Article

This $1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss

LoCHAid can be assembled in 30 minutes with cheap parts Globally, 230 million people aged 65 and older experience age-related hearing loss. Typi... (2020)


Article

Robotics - Robots that can walk are now striding to market

They will be able to go where people can, but existing bots cannot (2020)


Article

Social Construct’s computer-optimized buildings could shake construction industry’s foundations

Construction is one of the largest industries still resisting the call of the 21st century, its practitioners opting for decades-old but tried and ... (2020)


Article

Vertical farming - What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand About Agriculture – Thinking Agriculture

I was browsing HackerNews recently and a (rare) agriculture news story popped up, this one to be specific, but there are others. As these are of in... (2020)


Article

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any idea... (2020)


Video

New technology aims to put a whole new spin on space travel

A new form of technology is trying to send items into space with an innovative new method. The SpinLaunch aims to reduce the carbon footprint of sp... (2023)


Video

Why Is Desalination So Difficult?

An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean (2023)


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Amazing Invention - This Drone Will Change Everything - Zipline Drones

These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)


Video

Italy is Building a New Tech Capital in Milan

This digital twin is turning an area of Milan into Italy's new tech capital. (2023)


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Is the Hyperloop just Hype?

Check out the math & physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ ... (2021)


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Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report | Code 2019

Recode Published on Jun 11, 2019 At Recode by Vox’s 2019 Code Conference, Bond partner Mary Meeker released her slides in rapid succession, cov... (2019)


Video

How Tall Buildings Tame the Wind

How do tall buildings withstand the wind? We've partnered with SimScale to explain. (2019)


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The battery that could make mass solar and wind power viable | Donald Sadoway MIT

CBC News: The National Published on Dec 12, 2018 Renewables are growing, but even if they could some day replace fossil fuels, there's a problem:... (2019)


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The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power's Biggest Problems - Bloomberg

Bloomberg Published on Jun 22, 2016 Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of... (2019)


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A look at 5G technology and how it will change our lives

CBC News: The National Published on Mar 13, 2018 5G cellular networks — the next step up from 4G — are being developed for testing in some citie... (2018)


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Everything You Need to Know About 5G -- IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum Published on Feb 6, 2017 Millimeter waves, massive MIMO, full duplex, beamforming, and small cells are just a few of the technologi... (2018)


Video

The End of the Beginning - a16z

In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)


Video

Advice for Biotech Founders - A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - YC Startup School

YC Partner Adora Cheung talks to Science Exchange Co-Founder and CEO Elizabeth Iorns about her experience as a biotech startup founder. Learn more.... (2018)


Video

Secret History of Silicon Valley

[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private... (2018)


Video

Augur - How A Decentralized Prediction Market Works (Narrated by Shooter Jennings)

The Forecast Foundation introduces Augur, the world's first open source decentralized prediction market. Country artist and radio host Shooter Jenn... (2018)


Video

The Audience Response Duplicator,or Laugh Box,Laffbox,Recorded Studio Laughter

Video of "The Audience Response Duplicator, or LaughBox, Laffbox. Still in working condition! THIS IS IT! The infamous box of canned laughter. U.S ... (2018)


Video

Hindenburg disaster

This is the original reel about the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937, Lakehurst. For more information, please go to airships. net (2018)


Video

Fatal Flight audiobook: Opening credits (1/14)

engineerguy Published on Jul 31, 2017 Download this audiobook, view the figures in the print version, or read the appendices. Fatal Flight: The ... (2018)


Video

Britain's Giant Airship: R.101

engineerguy Published on Feb 6, 2018 You can learn more about Bill's book Fatal Flight, The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship -- includi... (2018)


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How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

WIRED Published on Jul 16, 2013 If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized rob... (2018)


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This City in Siberia Could Become the Next Silicon Valley | Bloomberg

Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Akademgorodok to see what this science city looks like in 2016. Where the labs of yesteryear have star... (2018)


Video

S-curves in Innovation

a16z, Published on Aug 5, 2017: "Benedict Evans describes "the s-curve” in the life cycle of technology innovation, and why it’s important. Techno... (2017)


Video

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)


Podcast

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2 - Naval

Listen to this episode from Naval on Spotify. Transcript: http://nav.al/matt-ridley-2   (2021)


Podcast

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1 - Naval

Listen to this episode from Naval on Spotify. Transcript: http://nav.al/matt-ridley   (2021)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz

Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond – Andreessen Horowitz

Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) puts the latest and greatest developments in consumer technology on display in Vegas. But beyond th... (2019)


Podcast

Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z on SoundCloud

Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)


Podcast

Bitcoin Cash - Hard Fork – Bitcoin.com

With a pending hard fork on May 15th, Ryan gives us the 411. What are the upgrades and how will they affect the future of Bitcoin Cash?... (2018)


Podcast

The Laff Box - 99% Invisible

What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)


Podcast

How Technology Is Changing The Way Blind People Get Visual Information | Here & Now

Here & Now's Eric Westervelt talks with the president of the National Federation of the Blind about some of the apps helping people who are blind o... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next – Andreessen Horowitz

a16z “Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the computing industry by so many orders of magnitude, it has (a... (2017)


Podcast

Tim O’Reilly – The Trend Spotter, an episode from Tim Ferriss on Spotify

Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) is one of the most fascinating polymaths I’ve ever encountered. Wired has called him “the trend spotter” in the world of... (2017)


Book

Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bring... (2023)


Book

Designing Reality - Neil Gershenfeld, MIT

Book from Neil Gershenfeld, professor at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, an interdisciplinary initiative exploring the boundary between computer s... (2023)


Book

How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley

How Innovation Works book. Read 176 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the rea... (2021)


Book

The End of Competitive Advantage (book) - Rita Gunther McGrath - Harvard Business Review

How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business - book by Rita Gunther McGrath, and Alex Gourlay Publication Date: June 04, 2013 Ar... (2019)


Book

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee, eBook - Amazon.com

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order - Kindle edition by Kai-Fu Lee. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, ... (2019)


Book

Spotify Teardown | The MIT Press

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience. ... (2018)


Book

Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World by Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—witho... (2018)


Book

The future of solar energy - Rays of hope - The Economist

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet. By Varun Sivaram. MIT Press; 392 pages; $29.95 and £24.95 "IN 1954 th... (2018)


Book

Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack

Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length... (2018)


Website

The Fab Foundation

Bridging the Digital Divide Design / Fabricate / Share. We work to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, i... (2023)


Website

Podcast - Should This Exist?

It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? we invite creators of radical new technologies to s... (2019)


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