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NEWS ABOUT INNOVATION IN THE NETWORK

Barcelona surrenders to artificial intelligence

Since the opening of the doors of this new edition at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2018), the role of Artificial Intelligence, the development of 5G, virtualization and the connectivity of objects was perceived. In this new edition it is Artificial Intelligence that focuses all eyes, voice recognition, chatbots, virtual assistants, the Internet of Things, the autonomous car, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, digital transformation, services in the cloud, cybersecurity or data analytics. "Artificial Intelligence is being applied successfully to change what is possible with a large number of interactions with different technologies," explains José Luis Sancho, managing director of Accenture Digital Spain, Portugal and Israel.
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Barcelona is "iCapital" of Europe (European Commission)

Europe’s premier innovation event, the Innovation Convention 2014, took place in Brussels on March 11. The European Commission has awarded the European Capital of Innovation (“iCapital”) to Barcelona (Spain). The winner of the iCapital award was announced during the convention; Barcelona was awarded the prize of 500000 Euros. This amount will be used to scale up and expand Barcelona's efforts on innovation. Barcelona was chosen by a panel of independent experts in a close competition with Grenoble (France) and Groningen (The Netherlands). The judges chose Barcelona thanks to its dedication and efforts to promote innovation and improving the quality of their citizen’s lives. Innovation is central to economic growth and business competitiveness, and is at the heart of the EU's 2020 strategy.
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Ten creativity lessons that drive your business (Expansión)

Innovation can’t disappear from your company, not even when it is consolidated.

The characteristics that define the entrepreneur –he sees solutions where others just see problems – have much to do with being creative: creativity is born from the divergence, from seeing with different eyes what everybody have seen. It is to discover what others haven’t discovered.

The entrepreneur is creative and, in addition, looks for original people with different answers, but which have capability so their ideas can be realized. Hire ground-breaking people is a difficult task in organizations which reward more the conservative attitude and are excessively afraid of failure. In to many companies the different thinking is not admitted and they don’t give what is needed so the good ideas can grow. The arrival or attraction of ground-breaking employees is a challenge for the change management capability, and the professionals who generate alternatives become uncomfortable for some managers, because inevitably the matter is to integrate people who are going to challenge them.

One of the most important factors that makes creativity appear is that a suitable environment is necessary. Innovation comes from sharing opinions and different ways of thinking, in a work climate in which it exists a mutual respect relationship between the employees and with the boss, and which doesn’t penalizes neither the different ideas nor the mistakes. Because innovations lies on experimentation and it fails many times, but it is the solution for discovering new ideas.

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The Caja de Burgos Foundation and "la Caixa" Foundation launch the 4th edition of the Innova Social program with our Innovation Competences with Design Thinking program

This is a hybrid program of competencies in innovation for the Third Sector where the methodologies of "Design Thinking" and "Design Sprint" will be used. These methodologies consist of an iterative process of challenge resolution based on discovery, ideation and experimentation. It also employs a variety of techniques to obtain innovative solutions, valuable insights and high performance for virtually any type of organizational or business challenge.

This hybrid program, which combines face-to-face sessions with online modules, aims to equip participants with the tools with which to solve a joint challenge for their organizations and, above all, to enable them to generate opportunities and develop innovation projects in a diverse range of environments. [+Official programme] [+Final Photos]

System of Innovation supports creation of NED technology park in Pakistan

NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi (NEDUET) was founded in 1921, making it one of the oldest universities in Pakistan. It has played a pivotal role in promoting national technological and industrial development by educating and training highly qualified engineering graduates, as well as fostering indigenous capabilities in design, management and operation which have been vital for the country’s progress.

Now, in order to reinforce their mission, the university is working with System of Innovation and other partners (La Salle Universitat Ramon Lull, La Salle Technova, EY and IASP) on the development of the NED Technology Park. We are delighted to be providing consultancy services to NED University for the construction of a new technology park in Karachi, Pakistan.

You can learn more about the NED Technology Park project, and the global best practice it will be implementing, in an online symposium on March 4th 2021 at 9:30am CET. Register here to join us on Zoom or watch live on YouTube here.

Inaugural Conference. III Edition of the CAEB Business Innovation Awards

The successful conference: "The drive of the Innovation from the sales forces: competences and abilities", will take place next February 19th, 2015 and will be held by Matilde Martínez Casanovas, associate and director of Innovation Factory™ Institute. After the conference, there will be the awards ceremony of 2014 to the business innovation chaired by Carmen Planas, president of CAEB and Joaquín García, minister of economy and competitiveness of the Balearic Islands government. [+info]

How to implement innovation in more traditional sectors?

Interview with our director Dr. Matilde Martínez Casanovas on Innovation in traditional sectors. Conduct the interview Elisabet Claus of La Vanguardia. "In a simple way, innovation consists of: generating new ideas, evaluating and selecting the best or best and implementing them successfully in the market. The most attractive thing for a company would be to rejuvenate itself and take 20 years from above, its brands and its image of product ", assures Matilde. [+info]

III Edition of the CAEB Business Innovation Awards

Innovation Factory™ Institute sponsor the III Edition of the CAEB Business Innovation Awards. The winners in the category of "enterprise" will receive access to the formative program "Innovation from the client, new opportunities to sale" formed by 6 digital modules that last 60 hours approximately. In the other category, the winner of "entrepreneur of the year" will be awarded with the program "Innovation and creativity in the business culture" formed by 5 digital modules that last 50 hours approximately. [+info]