Eurisy’s Monthly Faves
To keep you up-to-date with the latest news and innovation around satellites, we’re counting down our month’s top highlights!
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To keep you up-to-date with the latest news and innovation around satellites, we’re counting down our month’s top highlights!
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"Ideation is sometimes a mix of recklessness and ingenuity" Alexander Borg, Research and Innovation Consultant, Malta Innovation Technology Agency tells us. The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) organised their first Satellite data based App Challenge earlier this year. The result: 8 startups pitched their business ideas on how they would use satellite-data to develop their innovative idea into a testable, deployable and demonstrable solution. Here are Alexander's TOP 10 take aways!
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2015 is the year France will host the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21). The expected results of the C3 initiative – that is, innovative applications relying on data and emerging from the collective intelligence of citizens, companies, start-ups, civil society, students – will feed into the COP21. As far as initiatives of this kind go, C3 is exemplary in making climate change, but also innovation, everyone’s business.
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Europe doesn’t invent anything anymore, at a time when the EU has just decided to inject €80 billion into Horizon2020, Europe’s research and innovation programme. This was the deliberately controversial premise of a recent documentary on whether Europeans have lost their mojo when it comes to innovation and technology. It is easy to fall for the American pitch on why the US is a champion. But there is more to the story, and plenty of scope for European success, including in the aerospace sector.
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