Here is my TED talk on using innovation and entrepreneurship to solve grand challenges.
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This is a 10-week program designed for leaders who want to build innovative solutions to global grand challenges.
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In opening remarks, Dr. Holdren emphasized the key role of STEM in addressing grand challenges and growing the economy.
These Grand Challenges for Development are definable, quantifiable goals that address some of the largest solvable problems poor countries currently face.
President Obama also featured grand challenges in his national innovation strategy.
In addition to fueling invaluable advances that improve lives, the pursuit of Grand Challenges can create the jobs and industries of the future.
In particular, its Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is backing 43 projects that will, if they succeed, eliminate important obstacles to a healthier world.
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Our youngest child Neil who is 15-years-old, is starting InnovationGeneration to inspire young people to get interested in science and use innovations to solve grand challenges.
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"This is probably the largest pipeline of innovation in global health from the developing world, " says Peter Singer, chief executive of Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Canadian government.
The projects, led by Grand Challenges Canada, will tackle issues that can lead to mental illness, such as alcohol and substance abuse, as well as delivering solutions like counselling and health promotion.
Governments who join the partnership are called on to develop concrete commitments around open government to address at least one of five grand challenges (improving public services, increasing public integrity, more effectively managing public resources, creating safer communities, increasing corporate accountability).
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Saving Lives at Birth is the first in a series of Grand Challenges for Development that will be announced by USAID in the coming years to mobilize focused attention and resources around the most pressing obstacles to achieving our development goals.
The X Prize Foundation achieves this through grand global challenges.
Even in coalition-friendly Germany, a grand coalition might not be up to the challenges ahead.
Your most frequent challenges are tactical, not strategic, granular, not grand.
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To get an up-close look at IGT's challenges, visit the sprawling casino in Las Vegas' MGM Grand, where a bank of IGTmachines recently made way for 61 Family Feud videogames from Silicon Gaming.
For the pianist using today's grand piano, as opposed to the composer's more delicate instrument, there are challenges in rendering this music as Beethoven might have wanted.
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