U.S. Innovation, Research Cities and Digital Agriculture

Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation

States that implemented the social liberalization policies subsequently experienced a significant increase of 5% to 6% in their innovation output.

For ideas to flow and collide, the people who hold those ideas need to meet, mingle, talk, and share.

Digital agriculture: what’s all the fuss about?

Too much information can confuse and not clarify.

Technologists need to appreciate that farmers do not need high frequency and precise data for every decision.

Maybe Cities Don’t Need Tech Hubs to Succeed

Cities such as Raleigh, San Diego and Pittsburgh have all followed a similar model: Build around a top-ranked research university.

The Anatomy Of Smart Manufacturing

By understanding how smart manufacturing’s attributes relate a specific tactic and contribute to achieving a business goal, you can make smart decisions about how to deploy the technologies and move forward in your smart manufacturing journey.

The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas — here’s what it looks like

They found that the amount of plastic there seemed to be increasing exponentially and that there could be 16 times as much as previously thought.

How smart cities could save 125 hours of every citizen per year?

Smart cities will enhance the quality of life of citizens in multiple ways and reduce the taken time to commute between home and workplace as the problem of traffic congestion is dealt with.

China and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: Winning the Long Game

China is now massively investing in knowledge and will, in all probability, harvest the power of that knowledge in the future.