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Innovation ecosystems – such as CleanTech East – can play a critical role in accelerating the energy transition by fostering innovation, collaboration, integration, and collective action.
The requirement for electrons to fuel the AI knowledge revolution, and the drive for domestic production of renewable fuel (protected from geopolitical tensions) is increasing the appetite for electricity, comments Henry Aszklar, who argues that there is a precedent for renewable energy boosting the economy in the US.
Plant-based alternatives to plastic could help to reduce the pollution caused by single-use plastics – but does the food-to-go industry have the appetite for change and will the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD) support adoption of new technology? We asked Dr Marc Rodriguez Garcia, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Xampla for his view.
Time and time again, entire industries have been transformed by new entrants – often ones that initially appeared harmless to the giants they eventually unseated.
Ann Christensen, President and CEO of the Christensen Institute, explores how “Disruptive Innovation” — might unfold in the energy sector, and how to give breakthrough ideas their best shot at survival.
The EU AI Act, is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence. It sets out voluntary but influential standards for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) systems, which are among the most powerful and widely deployed AI technologies in development and use today.
We asked lawyer Wayne Cleghorn, about the significance of the act and his advice for innovation professionals.
How do internal corporate ventures select new business ideas? Using a resource-based lens, Merte Merde and his collaborators, examined venture proposals within a multi-business firm. Focusing on strategic relatedness, idea feasibility, and novelty it provide insights into the internal selection dynamics within a complex environment.
Despite a growing body of evidence that highlights the interdependence between corporate economic performance and biodiversity health, sustainability frameworks still tend to prioritise climate and relegate biodiversity to a secondary concern. Jacopo Cricchio and his colleagues at Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna propose the MCRV framework to put biodiversity at the heart of business strategy.
District Heating Networks (DHNs) can enable the heating of an entire neighbourhood from a single sustainable source. By learning from the experiences of the shared economy, and using AI to optimise the network, they offer potential to redefining the future of energy management.
Smalt discovered pneumatic unloaders that could unload grain 15 times faster than the existing manual method and at a lower cost – the response of the grain traders? “No, not interested. There are no bottlenecks in unloading grain at Rotterdam. Why disrupt the status quo?” Henry Aszklar explains how understanding socio-technological linkages is the key to accelerating technology transitions.
The question is no longer if biodiversity matters to industrial innovation, but how quickly and effectively we can adapt our systems to reflect this new reality says Fiona Lettice, RADMA trustee reporting about the R&D Management Conference. “We are seeing the early signs of this transformation – but the road ahead will require a much more integrated approach to research, regulation, and investment,” she warns.
The R&D Management Conference 2025 in Pisa – brought together around 500 participants from across the world and has been the hottest conference on record. Innovation & Biodiversity was a challenging theme, but the organisers have successfully created a coherent programme with excellent keynotes and presentations, says RADMA chair Jeremy Klein.
Biomaterials offer an alternative to the cement and plastics widely used in the construction sector – which account for 37% of global carbon dioxide emissions. But the challenge for innovators is how to offer higher perceived value. Tattva’s Stromate is a strong, lightweight, fire resistant alternative to conventional building materials.