Smart Living in Smart Cities: Leading Cities Into the Future

By Deborah Wince-Smith - Cities are the world’s centers for creativity and its economic engines. They are places where people, infrastructure, institutions, innovation assets, policies and regulations come together, and…

School of Gumption: Humanizing our education system in the age of robots

Our examination-orientated education system has been around since the time of China’s Imperial Examination — or even earlier. Knowledge used to be power, available only to a few in hierarchical structures…

Universities are Wellsprings of Innovation, Drivers of Regional Economies

Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils

We are living in the midst of the digital, biotechnology and nanotechnology revolutions. Around the…

Planning and Partnering for Innovation Must Include the Liberal Arts

Enhancing Social Performance Through the Circular Economy and Internet of Things

Institutions, both in the private and public sector, can always reap the public relations benefits of doing good, even while still accomplishing their goals. As resources become scarcer, a…

Readiness for Innovation: A Reflection on the GFCC University and Research Leadership Forum Reports, Optimizing Innovation Alliances and Leveraging Extreme Innovation.

Omnipreneurship

Amr Al-Dabbagh, GFCC Distinguished Fellow

Everyone understands, or thinks they understand, what an “entrepreneur” is. Derived from a French word meaning “to undertake,” an entrepreneur is, as Peter Drucker noted,someone who “always searches for…

Place-based Innovation: a Bottom-up Approach to Boost Competitiveness

The New Age of Illumination

By Deborah L. Wince-Smith