Business Model Innovation: Industry’s Latest Fad or a Useful Approach to...
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View ArticleCasting call for AI startups that personalize performing arts
ANALYST INSIGHT: The #AIShowBiz Event was recently held at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), where we saw a number of entrepreneurs pitch their startups, from inside the entertainment...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence rewrites the Hollywood formula
ANALYST INSIGHT: The rap on Hollywood movies is that they’re formulaic and predictable – but formulas have been key to storytelling since German Realist novels, Ancient Greek theatre, and even...
View ArticleFrom blockchain to bots, the entertainment industry seeks tech
ANALYST INSIGHT: We recently attended the #AIShowBiz Event, which explored the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the entertainment industry (possibly the first such event ever) in Los...
View ArticleHacker-farmers break connected tractors’ DRM, and Deere’s business model
ANALYST INSIGHT: Smart, connected tractors from manufacturers like John Deere were intended to help bring about precision agriculture (see the report “Big Data in Precision Agriculture”), but their...
View ArticleWhy it’s important that you can “Take a ride in a Self-Driving Uber” now (or...
ANALYST INSIGHT: If you’re in San Francisco, you might have gotten an offer on December 14 to “Experience the future, starting today” as you "Take a ride in a Self-Driving Uber." What’s remarkable...
View ArticleVenture or Vanish: Avoiding Extinction Through External Innovation
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View Article"Alexa, buy Whole Foods" – Amazon’s latest leap into real-world retail...
ANALYST INSIGHT: On June 16, Amazon announced it intends to buy U.S. grocery retailer Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods is a relatively young (founded in 1980), small chain with about 450...
View ArticleTaking to the Sky: Air Taxis, Flying Cars, VTOLs, and Other Short-Range...
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View ArticleDassault Systèmes
(CSI) MIDSIZE COMPANY PROFILE: France-based multinational software developer focused on computer-aided designing, engineering, and manufacturing, product life-cycle management, and collaboration software
View ArticlePlanes, trains, and automobiles: Electrified transportation and the race to...
ANALYST INSIGHT: As seems more often these days, a tweet from Elon Musk about receiving “verbal govt approval” to build a New York-to-D.C. hyperloop has resulted in considerable media interest and...
View ArticleSynthetic biology consumer products finally start making scents
ANALYST INSIGHT: We recently met with Antony Evans, CEO of Taxa Biotechnologies. Taxa is a startup providing services in metabolic engineering of plants, and may be best known for its 2013 “glowing...
View ArticleMobility Strategies: Long-range advanced transit (hyperloops, airships, and...
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View ArticleAstrobotic Technology
COMPANY PROFILE: Developing lunar orbiter and lander and related technologies for exploration, research, mining, government, commercial, and civilian space missions
View ArticleLux highlights the key themes at SynBioBeta SF 2017
ANALYST INSIGHT: Lux recently presented at SynBioBeta SF 2017, a conference focused on the synthetic biology industry. Although topics ranged from biomaterials to digitization to ocean sustainability,...
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