Stories
Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship Wild Card Competition
12th of February 2014 0 comments, category: Grants'n Funds
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Are you a postgraduate student studying either design, engineering or business? Are you interested in the circular economy as an innovation framework for positive change? Applications for Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship 2014 are now open, check it out!
Bridge - Opportunities for experienced designers who want to join top startups in San Francisco
7th of February 2014 0 comments, category: Grants'n Funds
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Designer Fund launches the third edition of their educational program. This is an exceptional opportunity for designers who want to elevate their career. Deadline is March 2nd.
Bio Art and Design Award
10th of January 2014 0 comments, category: Grants'n Funds
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Did you graduate no longer than five years ago in arts or design and have always been fascinated by life sciences? Check out this unique opportunity, offered by a consortia for renowned Dutch science centers, to win a grant of €25.000 and develop a transdisciplinary breakthrough project.
David Edwards
7th of January 2014 0 comments, category: Innovation Leaders
Maria Serra, Onclaude Founder
David Edwards, founder and director of Le Laboratoire in Paris and professor at Harvard University, explains to us why the boundaries between the arts and sciences should be knocked down, why collaborating is always a challenge and translating ideas is essentially a process of discovery.
Towards an ecosystem for early-stage finance and innovation through crowdfunding
20th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Innovation Stories
Onclaude & ECN (European Crowdfunding Network)
ECN Crowdfunding Convention in Vienna follow up: final paper with a collection of interesting essays, including a contribution by Onclaude's founder Maria Serra. The paper elaborates on some of the key trends and issues within the crowdfunding sector in 2013 and aims at broadening the views on it.
Hyundai Fuel Cell Technology + Fuel Cell Aquaponics Farm
19th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Innovation Stories
Maria Serra, Onclaude Founder
As the first car company in the world to assembly line-produce fuel cell vehicles (up to 1,000 will be available by 2015), having been researching the technology since 1998, Hyundai now aims at proving that hydrogen is a truly viable proposition and not just a futuristic folly. We had an interesting conversation with Hyundai UK about these topics.
Drones: Just a tool of war or a life-changing device for the people who need it the most?
15th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Innovation Stories
Fleur Pozzi, for Onclaude
The secrecy that shrouds how the military uses drones naturally raises concern. Nevertheless, drones are not going away any time soon. Consumer drones appear to be the next big thing we can expect to see in the near future. Meanwhile, some innovative and interesting ideas emerged from the TEDGlobal conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland last summer.
A Buddhist-Inspired Ethical Way of Evolving Business Paradigms
12th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Innovation Stories
Fleur Pozzi, for Onclaude
Evolution Stores is a one-of-a-kind Buddhist business, which follows the Buddha’s teachings on kindness, generosity and honesty, values that they consider to be universal and potentially shared by all Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
Duann Scott
12th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Innovation Leaders
Maria Serra, Onclaude Founder
Duann Scott, Designer Evangelist at Shapeways and consultant at digital fabrication consultancy Bits to Atoms, gives us some interesting insights on the 3D printing ecosystem, on how open design is breaking the old way of doing business with patents and "design secrets" and how designers and makers can push the technology further.
Quebec National Research and Innovation Policy
4th of December 2013 0 comments, category: Grants'n Funds
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Quebec unveils its National Research and Innovation Policy (PNRI), a $3.7 billion investment programme over five years, which aims at creating through research and innovation an effective response to the major questions affecting society.