SFIP is pleased to welcome its new alliance partner, the Business Innovation Factory. Based in Providence, RI, BIF is a national leader in systemic and business process innovation, hosts a top-rated annual thought leaders summit, and is focused on the elder care, energy, and education areas. Together, BIF and SFIP plan to launch the Code Green Energy Innovation Laboratory, a user-centered residential consumer lab for new energy products and systems.
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• A national innovation center for complex, systemic
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• An applied solutions laboratory, engaging global leaders
• Trans-disciplinary collaborative teams, cross-sector
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• 200 TeraFLOP supercomputer cluster support
• Advanced visualization, simulation, and modeling
• Campus-like environment with collaboratory, private spaces
• Public-private partnership, self-sustaining operations
Innovation Observations
- "Depletion will only be apocalyptic if we continue to consume oil as we have in the past when it was cheap & abundant" http://bit.ly/cFqdzT 1 day ago
- Rethinking economics: Could better models foresee economic crises? SFI says yes, proposes agent based model: http://bit.ly/aDqaDz 2 days ago
- Sign of the times: In the first half of this year, G.M. sold more vehicles in China than in the US, 1/4 of global saleshttp://nyti.ms/9YThbV 1 week ago
- Utilities must be part of the solution, and for ttheir sake too: "Utilities Must Embrace Clean Energy, Efficiency" http://bit.ly/bqJoNy 1 week ago
- Innovation at the edge? Mad genius and more out of Africa at http://www.afrigadget.com 1 week ago
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