Healthcare is an area where the opportunities for data to transform the sector have perhaps been overhyped, but few people doubt that the industry will be transformed by data.
Big Data is a great buzzword - but how many are really innovating with data - and what's stopping those who aren't?
As I go about scoping some new research on big data, open data and some of the opportunities and challenges for innovation, I've been wondering if there's an equivalent to the Uncanny Valley of robotics that governs how comfortable we feel with the data that we share.
Louis Coffait at the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning has put together a good blog post about using open data to improve education.
At a recent NESTA event, Matt Jones described Microsoft's X-box Kinect product as "military-grade surveillance".
Last week, investors, technologists and policy makers converged on NESTA to discuss the future of Industrial Biotechnology in the UK. Industrial Biotechnology deals with all those applications of microorganisms outside healthcare. It creates the opportunity to use alternatives to oil, to reuse waste, and to transform materials with low energy use. Oils secreted by microalgae can be harvested and used as biofuels, while sugar from beet and cane can be transformed
New technologies are emerging that could change the way we work and communicate. We're exploring some of them in our upcoming Hot Topics event.
Our recent event explored the challenges faced by the UK biomedical industry and how collaboration is key to it's continued growth and success.
The New York Times published an article recently about an entrepreneur, Seth Priebatsch, and described what it called his 'hypomanic' attributes: an elevated mood, obsession with one idea, little need for sleep, massive self-confidence.
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