The Neuroeconomics Revolution - Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate

The Neuroeconomics Revolution - Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate: "The brain, the computer, and the economy: all three are devices whose purpose is to solve fundamental information problems in coordinating the activities of individual units – the neurons, the transistors, or individual people. As we improve our understanding of the problems that any one of these devices solves – and how it overcomes obstacles in doing so – we learn something valuable about all three."

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Materialists Beware: The First Gene Defends a Strictly Scientific, Non-Materialist Conception of Biological Origins - Evolution News & Views

Materialists Beware: <i>The First Gene</i> Defends a Strictly Scientific, Non-Materialist Conception of Biological Origins - Evolution News & Views: Likewise, the field of ProtoBioCybernetics "specifically explores the often-neglected derivation through 'natural process' of initial control mechanisms in the very first theoretical protocell." (p. 1) Thus, the subtitle is "The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control."

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook - Yahoo! News

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook - Yahoo! News: When the president gave his speech addressing Mideast issues a few weeks after the raid, the tweet response over the next 24 hours came in negative from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, the Persian Gulf and Israel, too, with speakers of Arabic and Turkic tweets charging that Obama favored Israel, and Hebrew tweets denouncing the speech as pro-Arab.

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."

Review of Federal Support to Research and Development - Innovation Canada: A Call to ActionExecutive Summary

Review of Federal Support to Research and Development - Innovation Canada: A Call to ActionExecutive Summary: The Panel's Advice in a Nutshell

Create an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC), with a clear business innovation mandate (including delivery of business-facing innovation programs, development of a business innovation talent strategy, and other duties over time), and enhance the impact of programs through consolidation and improved whole-of-government evaluation.

Simplify the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program by basing the tax credit for small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) on labour-related costs. Redeploy funds from the tax credit to a more complete set of direct support initiatives to help SMEs grow into larger, competitive firms.

Make business innovation one of the core objectives of procurement, with the supporting initiatives to achieve this objective.

Federal Government Cloud – Innovation Nation Supercomputer | SYS-CON MEDIA

Federal Government Cloud – Innovation Nation Supercomputer | SYS-CON MEDIA: A common and core theme is the role a Cloud environment can play in implementing a Shared Services initiative. Recently the Canadian Federal Government announced the Shared Services department initiative, seeking to drive considerable cost savings by consolidating multiple, duplicated email and network systems to just one.

Dynamic Growth In Sri Lanka: The Innovation Imperative | The Sunday Leader

Dynamic Growth In Sri Lanka: The Innovation Imperative | The Sunday Leader: True, Steve Jobs was a tech titan, a once in a century kind of innovation genius. But neither he nor the Apple company could have done it alone. The key innovation of this nature is bolstered by a myriad of supporting structures – what is known as an ‘innovation system’.

The Innovation Journalism Blog: EU Commissioner Potocnik: EU Needs Innovation Journalism

The Innovation Journalism Blog: EU Commissioner Potocnik: EU Needs Innovation Journalism: Why should he be interested? As society becomes more innovative, it makes sense that it becomes more important to communicate how knowledge becomes valuable for people.

Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored

Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored: Four Pakistani journalists come to Stanford each year as InJo fellows, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The objective of the fellowship is to train international journalists to cover the innovation economy and network with U.S. media outlets. Fellows participate in workshops and conferences at Stanford and work with newsrooms across the nation covering issues relating to innovation. Fatima Akhtar, anchor and team member of the award-winning SAMAA series, will begin a five-month fellowship at the InJo Center in February.

SPRIS: New project to boost Tunisia's innovative research system

SPRIS: New project to boost Tunisia's innovative research system: Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Refaat Chaabouni pointed out that "only a rigorous and viable national innovation system is able to boost the nation's collective intelligence and transform it into riches and employment."

The Island

The Island: As Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs bids adieu to an ipod/iphone/ipad/macbook crazed world, it brought to the fore how much technological innovation has touched the lives of millions, and become so important in this new dynamic global economy. Jobs was a veritable trailblazer in innovation, with Apple products forever changing the way people interact with technology.

In Praise of Steve Jobs: Capitalism, Cybernetics, Typography | FlaglerLive - Your News Service for Flagler County News Palm Coast News Bunnell Flagler Beach Beverly Beach and Marineland

In Praise of Steve Jobs: Capitalism, Cybernetics, Typography | FlaglerLive - Your News Service for Flagler County News Palm Coast News Bunnell Flagler Beach Beverly Beach and Marineland: Mind you, Jobs did not create this new age wrought by computers. Norbert Wiener, whose best known book was God and Golem, published in 1964, invented the term cybernetics in the early 1940s. Cybernetics has all to do with machines and man and then machines making machines. The upshot was that computers would give every person extraordinary new labor power and thus transform the world.

NESTA - Thrills! Spills! Procurement!

NESTA - Thrills! Spills! Procurement!: Most recent policy reports in the field recommend that government make better use of procurement to encourage innovation: from Lord Sainsbury's Race to the Top in 2007 and DIUS's Innovation Nation in 2008 to Sir James Dyson's Ingenious Britain in 2010 and reports by think tanks from Policy Exchange to Demos and the IPPR.

Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind - ABC News

Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind - ABC News: "This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery," said Jack Gallant, professor of psychology and coauthor of a study published today in Current Biology. "We are opening a window into the movies in our minds."

Wireless Health Care - IEEE Spectrum

Wireless Health Care - IEEE Spectrum: A trial program by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offered an early look at what systemic change could mean. In 2003, the VA began using simple messaging devices and occasional videoconferences to let chronically ill veterans stay in touch with nurses and other health care professionals. Under this program, one of the largest of its kind in the world, 71 000 veterans are now receiving daily monitoring for such conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and �post-traumatic stress disorder.

Report: Telehealth market $6B by 2020 | mobihealthnews

Report: Telehealth market $6B by 2020 | mobihealthnews
"Home-monitoring is becoming increasingly relevant in the treatment of chronic diseases. For example, home monitoring of blood-pressure allows sufferers of hypertension to manage their condition better and monitor their progress. Home-use medical devices in Teleheatlh services, such as blood glucose meters, pulse oximeters, weight scales and peak flow meters are being deployed to monitor four main diseases – congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes and hypertension."

Seizing Economic Opportunities in the Low-Carbon Power Sector | WRI Insights

Seizing Economic Opportunities in the Low-Carbon Power Sector | WRI Insights: Creating “innovation ecosystems”

Policymakers have a crucial role to play in supporting innovators and creating a dynamic innovation ecosystem where they can thrive.

Our paper explores why innovation is a central strategy to long-term competitiveness in this highly price-sensitive sector. How can policymakers help their innovators thrive in order to build a domestic industry that competes successfully? They can do so by investing in their “innovation ecosystem”. The innovation ecosystem is made up of those who participate in the process of innovation very broadly, and the rules that govern how those people and companies interact.

The innovation ecosystem approach captures the complexity, uncertainty, and diversity of innovation and identifies the critical services innovators need to thrive. In the low-carbon power sector these include:

• Creating and sharing knowledge
• Building competence
• Creating collaborative networks
• Developing infrastructure
• Providing finance
• Establishing governance and the regulatory environment
• Creating markets for low-carbon power

To accelerate innovation, to increase the odds of innovation processes ending in success, it is critical to ensure all of the services or functions are being delivered effectively and efficiently.

India on global R&D map | Globalisation | R&D | The New Indian Express

India on global R&D map | Globalisation | R&D | The New Indian Express: Globalisation of innovation has emerged as a contentious issue due to its differential impact on economies at different levels of development. There is also a growing realisation that R&D and codified knowledge are important but not the sole factors that promote innovations and that most of economically useful knowledge has a tacit dimension having equally vital role.

Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis

Everyday Clairvoyance: How your brain makes near-future predictions | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis: a good part of predicting the future is the maintenance of a mental model of what is happening now. Now and then, this model needs updating, especially when the environment changes unpredictably.

A Rudderless World - NYTimes.com

A Rudderless World - NYTimes.com: Third, political leadership is always preceded by intellectual leadership. For several decades, the Western intelligentsia provided this intellectual leadership. Indeed, they used to happily lecture the world on what should be done. Today, they are clearly lost.

Chromosomes and Cancer | The Scientist

Chromosomes and Cancer | The Scientist: Still, “I find the observation very, very interesting,” Compton said. “Waldman is showing that there’s a single gene mutation that causes aneuploidy. Amon is saying if you’re aneuploid, you get all sorts of other genomic changes. Taken together, the grand implication is that mutation of one single gene can be responsible for all sorts of instability seen in tumors, which to me is extraordinary.” Clearly there are some holes to fill in—namely whether aneuploidy will similarly cause genomic instability in mammalian cells, he added, but “if that were true, it would be hugely powerful.”

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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com
“The vision is: change the world by bringing education to places that can’t be reached today,” said Dr. Thrun.

Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNCs - Navi Radjou - Harvard Business Review

Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNCs - Navi Radjou - Harvard Business Review: "The best way for an MNC to shape (and lead) a market is by building up more local R&D capabilities and cultivating a vibrant local partner ecosystem so it can systematically design and market locally-relevant offerings. But that requires shifting MNCs' center of R&D gravity from the West to the East."

Transition Towns – Where Innovation Takes Place At A Certain Pace - Haydn Shaughnessy - Re:thinking Innovation - Forbes

Transition Towns – Where Innovation Takes Place At A Certain Pace - Haydn Shaughnessy - Re:thinking Innovation - Forbes

Innovation Policy - Innovation - Enterprise and Industry

Innovation Policy - Innovation - Enterprise and Industry

The United Nations called for substantial investment to promote the global “green economy” | Finance online - Financial Advice|Financial Planning

The United Nations called for substantial investment to promote the global “green economy” | Finance online - Financial Advice|Financial Planning: "“2011 World Economic and Social Survey” that in the past two centuries, mankind has made in improving the material well-being, while great progress has paid a high price. Half of the world deforestation, depleting groundwater resources, biodiversity is threatened, human society is also facing severe problems of population growth and poverty. Address these issues need to bring the existing high-energy and serious pollution of the “brown technology” into low-power and environmentally friendly “green technology.”"

Tunisia Plans to Spend $2 Billion to Sell Solar Power in Europe - Bloomberg

Tunisia Plans to Spend $2 Billion to Sell Solar Power in Europe - Bloomberg: "Tunisia plans to invest $2 billion in solar projects to generate power for Europe, the minister of planning and international cooperation said."

EconPapers: Changes in the French defence innovation system: New roles and capabilities for the Government Agency for Defence

EconPapers: Changes in the French defence innovation system: New roles and capabilities for the Government Agency for Defence: "We explain how the role and the capabilities of the French Government Agency for Defence (Direction G�n�rale de l'Armement - DGA) have developed from ' project architect ' to ' project manager '. These new capabilities create new interactions in the French Defence innovation system and new roles for the DGA."

Xueyong: building a national innovation system needs technical innovation – innovation, Mechanical Industry – Machinery Industry | Construction Management Fundamentals

Xueyong: building a national innovation system needs technical innovation – innovation, Mechanical Industry – Machinery Industry | Construction Management Fundamentals: "Implementation of national technology innovation project, marking the national innovation system to a new starting point."

La d�couverte du g�ne responsable de l’�pilepsie | EcoloMag Tunisie

La d�couverte du g�ne responsable de l’�pilepsie | EcoloMag Tunisie

MEMS sensors for advanced mobile applications—An overview

MEMS sensors for advanced mobile applications—An overview: "This article discusses the role of MEMS sensors in advanced applications in mobile devices including Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR), LBS and the solution of MEMS sensor fusion integrated with a GPS receiver to determine the position and orientation using the dead-reckoning method."

The Hindu : Business / Industry : Exploring innovation potential in software

The Hindu : Business / Industry : Exploring innovation potential in software

LeeKuanYew-istan Forever - By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy

LeeKuanYew-istan Forever - By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy: "Singapore also transcends orthodoxies by embodying what seems an oxymoron to free market purists: planned innovation. Like many small states, Singapore simply cannot afford to fail due to its tiny territory and rough neighborhood. It therefore uses Shell-like scenario planning to forecast global and regional trends and determine what sectors to invest most heavily in to capture future markets."

Control Information

Control Information Thus, the user and the informational source together determine the informational value and the degree of behavioral control that results.

La Presse de Tunisie - lorsquun-prix-nobel-sinteresse-a-la-tunisie | 26789 | 12042011

La Presse de Tunisie - lorsquun-prix-nobel-sinteresse-a-la-tunisie | 26789 | 12042011
M. Stiglitz rappelle aussi que le développement des nouvelles technologies était un impératif car ces dernières ramenaient de la croissance plus rapidement et à moindre frais. Le développement de centres informatiques de «Silicone Valley» encourage la création rapide de métiers, et ce, à moindres coûts. Les énergies renouvelables sont également à encourager, selon lui, car elles sont à haute valeur ajoutée et peuvent même guider la stratégie énergétique des futurs gouvernements élus.

Desertec concept gets boots in Tunisia - UPI.com

Desertec concept gets boots in Tunisia - UPI.com: "Representatives of the Desertec project, an industrial initiative that plans to build giant solar and wind power plants in North Africa, last week met with officials from the interim Tunisian government."

World Bank partners with Morocco and Egypt on innovative projects that use hybrid concentrated solar power (CSP)

World Bank partners with Morocco and Egypt on innovative projects that use hybrid concentrated solar power (CSP)

"The emergence of new technologies is a complex, multi-dimensional process shaped by the strategies of different actors, a variety of institutional structures and developments in a broader context. Due to a high degree of interrelations, e.g. between political, societal and technological developments, socio-technical systems emerge in a non-linear fashion."

Le chantier de la prochaine d�cennie selon le monde des affaires.

Le chantier de la prochaine d�cennie selon le monde des affaires.: "A ces conditions affectant fondamentalement l’environnement des affaires, il faut mentionner au niveau du d�veloppement r�gional une faiblesse manifeste en termes de la planification et la programmation des plans de d�veloppement. Cela se caract�rise par l’absence, �la fois d’une vision strat�gique sur le long terme que de l’inexistence d’�tudes sp�cifiques qui peuvent tenir compte des atouts et du positionnement g�ographique des r�gions."

Strengthening science–policy dialogue in developing countries: The opportunities for knowledge intermediaries - Resources - Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Strengthening science–policy dialogue in developing countries: The opportunities for knowledge intermediaries - Resources - Overseas Development Institute (ODI): "There is, however, very little research that systematically examines the science–policy interface in developing countries, and little practical advice on how to strengthen linkages between scientific knowledge and the policy process."

SOCIO-CYBERNETICS AND THE NEW ALIENATIONS

SOCIO-CYBERNETICS AND THE NEW ALIENATIONS: "In second-order cybernetics, the system - whether an individual or a group - is defined as having the ability to reflect on its own operations on the environment, and even on itself. These operations generate variety in the environment, or in itself, which can reflexively be recognized as being due to systemic variation, which makes them recursive: observations can be observed, communications can be communicated, etc."

Tunisie: Evertek lance le premier t�l�phone TRIPLE SIM

Tunisie: Evertek lance le premier t�l�phone TRIPLE SIM: "CELLCOM annonce le lancement du premier t�l�phone portable fonctionnant avec 3 SIM EVERTEK E3 en Tunisie sous la forme d’un clavier azerty."

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Muslims take up science, technology to meet challenges: Gilani

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Muslims take up science, technology to meet challenges: Gilani: "Gilani said the Coordinator General of COMSTECH had placed special emphasis on capacity building for young scientists by raising funds from external sources like Islamic Development Bank Jeddah (IDB), International Foundation for Science (IFS) in Sweden, the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of World Health Organization (WHO) and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). To help COMSTECH pursue its commendable course of action in building indigenous research capability, Gilani said Pakistan had provided US$ one million annually. “The conference’s agenda include joint design, manufacture and marketing of small and medium sized planes, affordable cars, communication satellites and production of biotechnological-based drugs and vaccines,” the PM added."

New APS Report: Developing Energy Storage Technologies Among Crucial Steps Toward Increasing Renewable Electricity on Nation’s Grid

November 16, 2010: "Energy Storage

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) should:

* Develop an overall strategy for energy storage in grid-level applications that provides guidance to regulators to recognize the value that energy storage brings to both transmission and generation services on the grid;

Long-Distance Transmission

DOE should:

* Extend the Office of Electricity program on High Temperature Superconductivity for 10 years, with a focus on direct current superconducting cables for long-distance transmission of renewable electricity from source to market;

* Accelerate research and development on wide band gap power electronics for controlling power flow on the grid, including alternating to direct current conversion options and development of semiconductor based circuit breakers operating at 200 kilovolts and 50 kilo amperes.

Business Case

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation should:

* Develop an integrated business case that captures the full value of renewable generation and electricity storage in the context of transmission and distribution; and

* Adopt a uniform integrated business case as their official evaluation and regulatory structure, in concert with the state Public Utility Commissions.


* Conduct a review of the technological potential for a range of battery chemistries, including those it supported during the 1980s and 1990s, with a view toward possible applications to grid energy and storage; and

* Increase its research and development in basic electrochemistry to identify materials and electrochemical mechanisms that have the highest potential use in grid-level energy storage devices."

Science advisers must open up about uncertainties - SciDev.Net

Science advisers must open up about uncertainties - SciDev.Net: "There is a need to move from a narrow focus on risk to broader and deeper understanding of incomplete knowledge, he argues. Accepting that knowledge is complex by nature promises to deliver guidance that is more rigorous and robust, leaving policymakers accountable for their decisions."

Europe backs African research grants project - SciDev.Net

Europe backs African research grants project - SciDev.Net: "The six highlighted projects also include two related to space. One — Kopernicus-Africa — would focus on remote sensing satellites for environmental and security tasks.

The second would build capacity within the AU Commission to use the geospatial sciences for a range of applications, including natural resources, food security, crisis management and renewable energies.

The remaining 'early deliverable' projects relate to information and communication technologies. The AfricaConnect project will seek to integrate the African research community at both regional and international levels by improving bandwidth. And the African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) will support the growth of a continental African Internet infrastructure."

Africa considers a continent-wide space agency - SciDev.Net

Africa considers a continent-wide space agency - SciDev.Net: "Jonathan Mahlangu, a South Africa-based policy analyst said that the plan by the African Union was long overdue. 'Think of the contributions of NASA and ESA to the development of America and Europe,' he said. 'A well coordinated space agency for Africa will assist in solving most of the challenges before her.'"

Africa could feed itself, says development expert - SciDev.Net

Africa could feed itself, says development expert - SciDev.Net: "Africa could feed itself within a generation through the application of science-based techniques to agricultural production, according to the editor of a report on how to do this, which will be discussed by East African heads of state today.

The continent has a window of opportunity in which to take decisions to increase food production that would enable it to feed itself, said the report, put together by a 20-member board under the Agricultural Innovation in Africa project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The report, 'New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa', sounds a note of optimism amidst warnings about the threats to African agriculture against a background of global warming and soaring population."

South–South biotech collaborations flourish - SciDev.Net

South–South biotech collaborations flourish - SciDev.Net: "Developing countries are turning to each other for affordable and targeted solutions to national health problems, a study of South–South biotechnology collaborations has found.

'Brother–sister' trade relationships between developing countries allow cheaper drugs and vaccines to reach more poor people than do 'parent–child' relationships with the developed world, according to a study published in Nature Biotechnology (May 10)."

asahi.com（朝日新聞社）：Japan firms find India tough market - English

asahi.com（朝日新聞社）：Japan firms find India tough market - English: "'The cost of translating technical terms from Japanese into English alone came out to a fairly large figure,' said an official with a Japanese company who is knowledgeable about the process. 'That by itself made it difficult to win bids.'

The Canadian consulting company had a network of specialists who spoke English around the world and that made it possible to complete an efficient plan relatively quickly."