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Device that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K
May 28, 2019 Editor 0
The grand prize winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was an MIT spinout that’s developing a system that captures and recycles vaporized water from thermoelectric power plants. The recycled water can be constantly reused in the plant’s cooling system, saving millions of gallons and dollars annually, or be shipped as potable water to […]
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Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize were a team from Harvard University that’s bringing healthier meal options to low-income communities and an MIT team that’s crowdsourcing and crunching crop-price data for smarter investing. EatWell, a team of students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and outside experts, won […]
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Reliable energy for all
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
During high school, Prosper Nyovanie had to alter his daily and nightly schedules to accommodate the frequent power outages that swept cities across Zimbabwe. “[Power] would go almost every day — it was almost predictable,” Nyovanie recalls. “I’d come back from school at 5 p.m., have dinner, then just go to sleep because the electricity […]
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Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies
January 25, 2018 Editor 0
This paper develops insights into the structural drivers of farmer and supply chain profitability in emerging market supply chains, then studies the impact of an e-intermediary (i.e., a digitally-enabled new supply channel) on this profitability. Results provide a more balanced perspective on the value of e-intermediation compared to the generally positive view that is advanced […]
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International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
September 29, 2017 Editor 0
Geoffrey Jones examines how strategies by Western multinational enterprises in emerging markets over the last century have been shaped by context. These strategies evolved from resolving logistical challenges to managing assertive governments. More recently the focus has been to locate activities in the lower end of global value chains, whilst responding to local competitors. Go […]
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How Open Innovation Can Be Used in the Financial Sector
July 23, 2017 Editor 0
In a recent article, The Financial Brand discussed the biggest threats to the financial and banking industry. They included a long list of everything from profitability to making good hiring decisions. However, we thought that there were a few problems that could be particularly fruitful when applied to open innovation systems. Go to Source
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