Archive for the “Innovation” category
Startup Africa
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on February 21, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: BRIC nations, Europe, Gabon, mineral resources, Nigeria, Twitter, US economy
As Europe and the US struggle to get their finances in order, and the BRIC nations do their best to build on recent successes, another continent has been quietly gaining pace. And lately not so quietly. Last year a stream (…)
GCF 2012. A focus on entrepreneurs.
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on January 24, 2012 • Leave your comment
Entrepreneurship is the key to competitiveness, and it’s something every nation needs to think about. So it is entirely fitting that the Global Competitiveness Forum in Saudi Arabia is placing it at the center of its conference this year. Bringing (…)
Leadership in the Era of Jobs
by Richard Attias on October 7, 2011 • 10 comments • Tagged as: Dwight D. Eisenhower, financial crisis, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Jack Welch, leadership, Margaret Thatcher, Steve Jobs, US election 2012
With the tragic death of Steve Jobs yesterday, American business lost one of its greatest ever leaders. Jobs was not just a brilliant innovator, but in the words of Apple, “a visionary and creative genius.” He had the unique qualities (…)
China and Germany ahead on cleantech: Q&A with Devashree Saha from the Brookings Institution
by NYF Team on August 22, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Brookings Institution, china, cleantech, economy, employment, Germany, Google, green energy, jobs, solar
Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year she co-authored a report on the clean economy. Over email, she tells the New York Forum why this industry matters, and — with (…)
Sustainability survives the downturn
by NYF Team on August 17, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Boston Consulting Group, Brookings Institute, cleantech, climate change, environment, EPA, Innovation, jobs, MIT Sloan School of Management, Nike, sustainability
A round-up of news and opinion. One of the problems with the term sustainability is defining what it means. “Companies view it in myriad ways,” explained the authors of a recent report by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan (…)
Exponential opportunity in NYC tech: Q&A with Charlie Kemper
by NYF Team on July 25, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Charlie Kemper, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator program, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, Innovation, LinkedIn, small businesses
Charlie Kemper is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator program, an incubator for technology start-ups in New York. Also a venture capitalist at Revel Partners, and with a background in engineering, Kemper’s industry knowledge spans digital (…)
Innovation nation?
by NYF Team on July 21, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Amazon, Apple, Arianna Huffington, Edmund Phelps, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, immigration, infrastructure, Innovation, Innovation Index 2011, Michael Bloomberg, start-ups
A round-up of news & opinion. As America falters under the weight of recession, one thing seems to offer an answer: entrepreneurship. A core value of the American dream, many hope that entrepreneurship and its cousin, innovation, will provide a (…)
Memorable Quotes from the 2011 New York Forum
by NYF Team on June 24, 2011 • Leave your comment
“When we look at talent, and particularly capabilities, around the world, we have a lot more places to look for it today than thirty years ago. There’s the fall of the Iron Curtain … and great institutions are being built. (…)
Connecting in the age of hyper-transparency
by Speakers and contributors on June 22, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Arthur Sulzberger, Bonin Bough, Dov Seidman, Government secrecy, internet, New York Times, social networks, Steve Clemons, wikileaks
Can individuals or organizations expect any kind of privacy today? This was the question Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. posed at the beginning of a panel on hyper-transparency in an interconnected world. Some speakers thought that it’s too late, the genie is (…)
