Our daily digest explores a diverse range of advancements shaping our world. Tech giants are uniting to combat AI-generated misinformation in a crucial election year, while Helsinki shines as a leader in innovative food solutions, exploring everything from cellular agriculture to vertical farming. In the realm of design, understanding user needs remains paramount for success, and businesses are recognizing the growing importance of strategic foresight in a rapidly evolving landscape. Finally, researchers in education emphasize the crucial role of data sharing in accelerating progress. Join us as we delve deeper into these and many other intriguing stories!
Tech companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI have signed an accord to filter through deceptive AI-generated content in 2024, a year with more elections than any other in history.
Explore Helsinki’s top foodtech innovations—from cellular agriculture to vertical farming—and how they’re benefiting the global food industry. Source
PIcture © Ilya / AdobeStockÁlvaro M. Chang-Arana, Katja Hölttä-Otto & Jari Jussila In design, designers need to understand users accurately. Understanding of users has been considered to lead to the development of products and services that better match user needs and goals. Therefore, a relevant question is how accurately designers can infer...
HollenderX2/Getty Images Tweet Post Share Annotate Save Print Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened,...
Methods for increasing flexibility include increasing the opportunities and incentives for demand response, strengthening electricity transmission connections, direct electrical storage, and developing the cooperative operation of sectors. We need to select the methods that are the most cost-effective for the entire system in the long run and that...
Over the course of two days, the 'Focus on the Global South' meeting welcomed over 80 participants from more than 25 educational institutions across Finland. The event brought together professionals involved in Global South partnerships, targeting specifically higher education and vocational education staff involved in HEI ICI, TFK, Erasmus+ Capacity...
Forget mass manufacturing -- the next big product could be made in your garage with the help of tiny robots.
The Resilient Bio-inspired Modular Robotic Miners (ROBOMINERS) project is poised to make a transformative contribution to the goals outlined in the European Commission’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA). By creating a bio-inspired, modular, and reconfigurable robot-miner, ROBOMINERS targets the extraction of small, challenging mineral deposits deemed...
In today’s rapidly evolving world, organizations face a myriad of challenges and opportunities. The latest developments between key AI players are a good example of the impact of various changes in a very fast rhythm. What happens after the biggest hype, will Open Source LLMs reach the level of known players, what will be the biggest breakthroughs in...
Image: Adobe Stock.Jari Jussila, Sanna-Maaria Siintoharju & Ricardo Galiot Many people consider themselves experts in design thinking. Nevertheless, there is always something to learn from other experienced design thinkers. A better understanding of the design thinking mindset and the common misconceptions about design thinking can help get the...
Ed Morrison posted on LinkedIn an overview of his approach to innovation ecosystems and working with Wabash, a large transportation, logistics, and distribution company. As regular readers may know I am a huge proponent of Ed’s strategic doing framework and particularly how it applies to agile (with a small ‘a’) sensemaking. Ed states that an innovation...
NASA is headed to Jupiter's fascinating moon Europa this year. Scientists suspect a deep ocean sloshes beneath the icy world's crust. The looming mission, called Europa Clipper, will launch in October, sending a spacecraft the length of a basketball court to make around 50 flybys by the distant Jovian moon, assessing whether it could harbor conditions...
NASA wants to hear far-out, unconventional, and out-of-this-world aerospace ideas. The space agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program — which encourages "visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of breakthroughs" — funds research into a diversity of ambitious proposals it finds compelling. For example,...
Christine M. White, Stephanie A. Estrera, Christopher Schatschneider, Sara A. Hart, EdArXiv, Feb 02, 2024 "Researchers in the education sciences value data sharing and that many either have shared or intend to share data. However, an objective look at the rate of data availability in peer-reviewed research journals...
These innovations will change business during the next decade and beyond, according to ARK Invest, and AI will play a significant role.
Society, our work, and our everyday lives require us all to be more innovative and more intentional. Since around 500BC when the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus allegedly noted that ‘Change is the only constant’, the world has been in flux. This has not only continued, but it has accelerated. If we want to develop more innovators, we need to provide...
Expert Opinion By Sean Wise, Best-selling author, venture capitalist, and founder@SeanWiseFor decades, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has generated some of the world's greatest innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups. MIT has built a strong research and engineering culture since its founding in 1861, producing dozens of Nobel laureates along...
The report offers a glimpse into the future, presenting insights on 5 major megatrends that are shaping our world today:Unstable times challenge global societiesThe new intelligence eraThe circular shift Connectivity in the digital-physical world Holistic health transformation “Throughout this report, we encourage you to reflect on the interplay between...
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