Stories of Innovation

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

RON ARTESANO

RON ARTESANO

Artesano is the product of inspiration, perspiration, hard work and perseverance

This is what we call Ron Artesano. This craft rum brand is hand-made in small batches in the mountains of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. The founders are a solid team of professionals that handle the different aspects of the business: Commercial Operations & Business Development, Distillation, Production & Aging and Rum...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia

NSWCPD

Anchoring Innovation for the Fleet and the Region

Philadelphia is universally recognized as the birthplace of American independence, the city where the Nation’s foundational documents were fiercely debated and boldly signed. Yet, intricately woven into the city’s DNA is another monumental birthright: it is the birthplace of the United States Navy. In the fall of 1775, a Continental...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

ORBIT MEDIA STUDIOS

ORBIT MEDIA STUDIOS-Web Design

Web Design, Development and Optimization with Deep Roots in the City of Chicago

They both grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and met in high school. When Barrett Lombardo and Andy Crestodina graduated, they headed off to the University of Iowa together.   They shared a dorm room and one of those boxy Macintosh computers. It was the early 1990s. Most people...

INNOVATE® Nashville

CAPITOL VIEW DENTAL

DENTISTRY WITH A CLASSICAL TOUCH, WHERE NASHVILLE COMES TO SMILE!

When I started college in 2005 at Indiana University, if you would have told me I’d be opening the first black owned dental practice in the North Gulch in Nashville by 2025, I would have been totally shocked. I would be trying to figure out how a musician studying classical...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia

AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

INNOVATION THROUGH RESILIENCE

How the African-American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ & DE continues to pave the way 33 years later About the AACC Founded in 1993, the African-American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ & DE (AACC) was born out of a burning need to innovate. After decades of persistent discrimination...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

REUSABLY

The circular solution to plastic pollution - Reusably is changing the world one container at a time.

Australians throw out a staggering 2.7 million single-use or disposable coffee cups every day, amounting to one billion coffee cups thrown out each year. In response to this waste crisis, Reusably, an Adelaide-based sustainability start-up, is on a mission to eliminateexcessive use of disposable goods and accelerate the transition away...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

AUSHEALTH

BRINGING MEDICAL INNOVATION TO LIFE!

AusHealth® is an Australian-owned health and wellbeing organisation that provides workplace drug and alcohol testing and debt collection services to hospitals, while turning its profits wholly to locally led, globally recognised medical research. Since establishing in 1985, AusHealth® has contributed more than $47 million into South-Australian led research towards pain...

INNOVATION Quebec

STIQ (SOUS-TRAITANCE INDUSTRIELLE QUÉBEC)

INCONTOURNABLE DANS L’ÉCOSYSTÈME MANUFACTURIER QUÉBÉCOIS

STIQ est une association multisectorielle d’entreprises québécoises qui a pour mission de développer les relations d’affaires et améliorer la compétitivité des entreprises manufacturières afin de favoriser l’essor de l’économie québécoise. Depuis sa fondation en 1987, STIQ agit comme activateur de performance en créant des maillages fructueux et en déployant des...

Global Innovation Spotlight

The New Generation of Climate Entrepreneurs Building a Greener Economy

While climate change seems like an enormous challenge, many young entrepreneurs are not sitting around, waiting for others to resolve the problem. Instead, they are starting their ventures focused on renewable energy, improved food systems, transportation, reduction of waste and more sustainable cities. The founders of these ventures are far...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

RENAULT GROUP

A 25-YEAR LEGACY AND THE START OF A NEW ERA

On 12 March 1996, Renault Group chose Paraná as the site for its new plant, marking the start of a new chapter in automotive history for Brazil. On 4 December 1998, the Ayrton Senna industrial complex opened its doors in Curitiba, becoming one of Renault Group’s main sites in South...

INNOVATE™ Alberta

JIVA CONSULTING

TRANSFORMING HOW THE INDUSTRY TRANSFERS DEEPLY TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE THROUGH DIVERSITY

Jiva is an independent training and consulting organization focused on the energy and infrastructure industries. Jiva has a unique differentiator in the knowledge-transfer services it offers: Jiva has developed a process that marries technical expertise and educational theory with a deep knowledge of effective communication and robust project management through...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

BLUEROCK THERAPEUTICS

BLUEROCK THERAPEUTICS- DARES TO ASK

DARES TO ASK, “WHAT IF?"

At BlueRock, our mission is to create authentic cellular medicines to reverse devastating diseases, with the vision of improving the human condition.   Built on the research of some of the world’s foremost experts in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) biology, BlueRock has revolutionized and scaled methods for creating authentic...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

CLIPSAL

BY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC – INDUSTRY-LEADING INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

The Clipsal name has proudly been a key part of Adelaide’s thriving business landscape since 1920. The innovative electrical brand has become synonymous with leading electrical accessories in Australian homes and across the wider Asia Pacific region. In 2003, Clipsal was acquired by global technology company Schneider Electric, forming a...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

SFU’s CHARLES CHANG INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INNOVATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

World-Class Spirit & InnovationAs the World’s #1 university for Entrepreneurial Spirit and #1 in Canada for Innovation*, Simon Fraser University is recognized as one of Canada’s most supportive post-secondary ecosystems for innovative research and education across disciplines. The heart of its entrepreneurship education pillar beats in the Charles Chang Institute...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

NEWARK DRIVING INNOVATION THROUGH DIVERSITY & SOCIAL MOBILITY

Rutgers University–Newark is a leading urban research university that leverages diversity and high-impact scholarship to cultivate the talent essential to transform communities and change the world. An anchor institution in our home city, we are not just in but of Newark. The RU-N community has long recognized that our location...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

NEXT CANADA

NEXT CANADA-BUILDING A MORE AMBITIOUS AND COMPETITIVE CANADA

BUILDING A MORE AMBITIOUS AND COMPETITIVE CANADA

Founded in 2011, NEXT Canada was built on the vision of supporting the growth trajectory of aspiring and scaling entrepreneurs. With the support and leadership from NEXT Canada’s Cofounders and Founding Patrons, NEXT has grown to become one of Canada’s top entrepreneurial networks, with graduates achieving significant milestones in their...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

SHROOMWELL

HOW SHROOMWELL IS REDEFINING GLOBAL HEALTH AND FORESTRY THROUGH MYCOTECHNOLOGY

Operating out of Estonia, a nation known for its deep connection to nature and a rapidly developing technology sector, Shroomwell stands as a pioneer in the global mycotechnology landscape. The company’s core mission transcends the production of traditional supplements; it aims to bring greater health to both people and the...

INNOVATE® Georgia

JOULEA

REDEFINING ENERGY EFFICIENCY - MAXIMIZING PROFITABILITY WHILE MINIMIZING CARBON FOOTPRINT.

The building sector, which accounts for 40% of all U.S. energy use and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, wastes $150 billion annually due to inefficient design, operation, and maintenance of buildings. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings are responsible for 76% of the nation’s electricity consumption. Moreover, the...

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid’s First Wave Coffee Culture

La Primera Ola de la Cultura del Café en Madrid – Innovations Of The World

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid has bounced back from the early 2010s with entrepreneurship and innovation, challenging even the most essential traditions including how coffee is processed, consumed, and loved. Only seven years ago, Madrid’s coffee scene was nothing to shout about, but over the last decade, the ‘torrefacto’ norm...

Global Innovation Spotlight

The Rise of Audiobooks and AI: Transforming the Way We Read

Once, reading was a quiet act. A private conversation between you and the page. Now? That’s changing. Audiobooks have crashed through the library doors, and artificial intelligence is riding shotgun. In 2023, the global audiobook market was valued at over $8 billion. By 2032, some projections place it above $35...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

7SENSE

TELEHAPTIC TECHNOLOGY: REDEFINING SIGHT THROUGH A REMOTE SENSE OF TOUCH

7Sense is a deep-tech and life science start-up developing telehaptic technology for the blind. It allows users to feel their surrounding environment through a sense of touch on the forehead. In simple words, the user feels surrounding objects—their shape, size, motion, speed, and distance. Traditionally, haptics has meant small vibrating...

INNOVATION Quebec

TERRITOIRES INNOVANTS EN ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE (TIESS)

CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE SOCIAL INNOVATION AT A TIME!

Propelling Ideas That Have an ImpactTIESS is Quebec’s leading authority on knowledge transfer in the social economy. Its mission? To provide organizations with the tools they need to meet the different challenges facing our society while transforming their practices. Through a continuous process of innovation—whether it be food self-sufficiency, the...

INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath

Buro Happold

Buro Happold-Touching the Earth Lightly

Touching the Earth Lightly

WHO WE AREWith over 40 years’ experience, we have been involved in some of the most influential and innovative projects around the world. As a practice of engineers, consultants and advisers in all aspects of builtenvironments, we are inspired by how we can achieve better outcomes.Our global capability offers consultancy...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

QREDIBLE®

CULTIVATING TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY: HOW QREDIBLE® IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY

Qredible is a first-of-its-kind platform, leading the way in building trust and transparency in the cannabis, CBD, and hemp supply chains. The legalized cannabis industry can be a maze of false, misleading, outdated, or missing information. Qredible’s unique platform is revolutionizing the industry by connecting the entire CBD, hemp, and...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

RON ARTESANO

RON ARTESANO

Artesano is the product of inspiration, perspiration, hard work and perseverance

This is what we call Ron Artesano. This craft rum brand is hand-made in small batches in the mountains of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. The founders are a solid team of professionals that handle the different aspects of the business: Commercial Operations & Business Development, Distillation, Production & Aging and Rum...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia

NSWCPD

Anchoring Innovation for the Fleet and the Region

Philadelphia is universally recognized as the birthplace of American independence, the city where the Nation’s foundational documents were fiercely debated and boldly signed. Yet, intricately woven into the city’s DNA is another monumental birthright: it is the birthplace of the United States Navy. In the fall of 1775, a Continental...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

ORBIT MEDIA STUDIOS

ORBIT MEDIA STUDIOS-Web Design

Web Design, Development and Optimization with Deep Roots in the City of Chicago

They both grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and met in high school. When Barrett Lombardo and Andy Crestodina graduated, they headed off to the University of Iowa together.   They shared a dorm room and one of those boxy Macintosh computers. It was the early 1990s. Most people...

INNOVATE® Nashville

CAPITOL VIEW DENTAL

DENTISTRY WITH A CLASSICAL TOUCH, WHERE NASHVILLE COMES TO SMILE!

When I started college in 2005 at Indiana University, if you would have told me I’d be opening the first black owned dental practice in the North Gulch in Nashville by 2025, I would have been totally shocked. I would be trying to figure out how a musician studying classical...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia

AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

INNOVATION THROUGH RESILIENCE

How the African-American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ & DE continues to pave the way 33 years later About the AACC Founded in 1993, the African-American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ & DE (AACC) was born out of a burning need to innovate. After decades of persistent discrimination...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

REUSABLY

The circular solution to plastic pollution - Reusably is changing the world one container at a time.

Australians throw out a staggering 2.7 million single-use or disposable coffee cups every day, amounting to one billion coffee cups thrown out each year. In response to this waste crisis, Reusably, an Adelaide-based sustainability start-up, is on a mission to eliminateexcessive use of disposable goods and accelerate the transition away...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

AUSHEALTH

BRINGING MEDICAL INNOVATION TO LIFE!

AusHealth® is an Australian-owned health and wellbeing organisation that provides workplace drug and alcohol testing and debt collection services to hospitals, while turning its profits wholly to locally led, globally recognised medical research. Since establishing in 1985, AusHealth® has contributed more than $47 million into South-Australian led research towards pain...

INNOVATION Quebec

STIQ (SOUS-TRAITANCE INDUSTRIELLE QUÉBEC)

INCONTOURNABLE DANS L’ÉCOSYSTÈME MANUFACTURIER QUÉBÉCOIS

STIQ est une association multisectorielle d’entreprises québécoises qui a pour mission de développer les relations d’affaires et améliorer la compétitivité des entreprises manufacturières afin de favoriser l’essor de l’économie québécoise. Depuis sa fondation en 1987, STIQ agit comme activateur de performance en créant des maillages fructueux et en déployant des...

Global Innovation Spotlight

The New Generation of Climate Entrepreneurs Building a Greener Economy

While climate change seems like an enormous challenge, many young entrepreneurs are not sitting around, waiting for others to resolve the problem. Instead, they are starting their ventures focused on renewable energy, improved food systems, transportation, reduction of waste and more sustainable cities. The founders of these ventures are far...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

RENAULT GROUP

A 25-YEAR LEGACY AND THE START OF A NEW ERA

On 12 March 1996, Renault Group chose Paraná as the site for its new plant, marking the start of a new chapter in automotive history for Brazil. On 4 December 1998, the Ayrton Senna industrial complex opened its doors in Curitiba, becoming one of Renault Group’s main sites in South...

INNOVATE™ Alberta

JIVA CONSULTING

TRANSFORMING HOW THE INDUSTRY TRANSFERS DEEPLY TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE THROUGH DIVERSITY

Jiva is an independent training and consulting organization focused on the energy and infrastructure industries. Jiva has a unique differentiator in the knowledge-transfer services it offers: Jiva has developed a process that marries technical expertise and educational theory with a deep knowledge of effective communication and robust project management through...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

BLUEROCK THERAPEUTICS

BLUEROCK THERAPEUTICS- DARES TO ASK

DARES TO ASK, “WHAT IF?"

At BlueRock, our mission is to create authentic cellular medicines to reverse devastating diseases, with the vision of improving the human condition.   Built on the research of some of the world’s foremost experts in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) biology, BlueRock has revolutionized and scaled methods for creating authentic...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

CLIPSAL

BY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC – INDUSTRY-LEADING INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

The Clipsal name has proudly been a key part of Adelaide’s thriving business landscape since 1920. The innovative electrical brand has become synonymous with leading electrical accessories in Australian homes and across the wider Asia Pacific region. In 2003, Clipsal was acquired by global technology company Schneider Electric, forming a...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

SFU’s CHARLES CHANG INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INNOVATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

World-Class Spirit & InnovationAs the World’s #1 university for Entrepreneurial Spirit and #1 in Canada for Innovation*, Simon Fraser University is recognized as one of Canada’s most supportive post-secondary ecosystems for innovative research and education across disciplines. The heart of its entrepreneurship education pillar beats in the Charles Chang Institute...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

NEWARK DRIVING INNOVATION THROUGH DIVERSITY & SOCIAL MOBILITY

Rutgers University–Newark is a leading urban research university that leverages diversity and high-impact scholarship to cultivate the talent essential to transform communities and change the world. An anchor institution in our home city, we are not just in but of Newark. The RU-N community has long recognized that our location...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

NEXT CANADA

NEXT CANADA-BUILDING A MORE AMBITIOUS AND COMPETITIVE CANADA

BUILDING A MORE AMBITIOUS AND COMPETITIVE CANADA

Founded in 2011, NEXT Canada was built on the vision of supporting the growth trajectory of aspiring and scaling entrepreneurs. With the support and leadership from NEXT Canada’s Cofounders and Founding Patrons, NEXT has grown to become one of Canada’s top entrepreneurial networks, with graduates achieving significant milestones in their...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

SHROOMWELL

HOW SHROOMWELL IS REDEFINING GLOBAL HEALTH AND FORESTRY THROUGH MYCOTECHNOLOGY

Operating out of Estonia, a nation known for its deep connection to nature and a rapidly developing technology sector, Shroomwell stands as a pioneer in the global mycotechnology landscape. The company’s core mission transcends the production of traditional supplements; it aims to bring greater health to both people and the...

INNOVATE® Georgia

JOULEA

REDEFINING ENERGY EFFICIENCY - MAXIMIZING PROFITABILITY WHILE MINIMIZING CARBON FOOTPRINT.

The building sector, which accounts for 40% of all U.S. energy use and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, wastes $150 billion annually due to inefficient design, operation, and maintenance of buildings. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings are responsible for 76% of the nation’s electricity consumption. Moreover, the...

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid’s First Wave Coffee Culture

La Primera Ola de la Cultura del Café en Madrid – Innovations Of The World

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid has bounced back from the early 2010s with entrepreneurship and innovation, challenging even the most essential traditions including how coffee is processed, consumed, and loved. Only seven years ago, Madrid’s coffee scene was nothing to shout about, but over the last decade, the ‘torrefacto’ norm...

Global Innovation Spotlight

The Rise of Audiobooks and AI: Transforming the Way We Read

Once, reading was a quiet act. A private conversation between you and the page. Now? That’s changing. Audiobooks have crashed through the library doors, and artificial intelligence is riding shotgun. In 2023, the global audiobook market was valued at over $8 billion. By 2032, some projections place it above $35...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

7SENSE

TELEHAPTIC TECHNOLOGY: REDEFINING SIGHT THROUGH A REMOTE SENSE OF TOUCH

7Sense is a deep-tech and life science start-up developing telehaptic technology for the blind. It allows users to feel their surrounding environment through a sense of touch on the forehead. In simple words, the user feels surrounding objects—their shape, size, motion, speed, and distance. Traditionally, haptics has meant small vibrating...

INNOVATION Quebec

TERRITOIRES INNOVANTS EN ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE (TIESS)

CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE SOCIAL INNOVATION AT A TIME!

Propelling Ideas That Have an ImpactTIESS is Quebec’s leading authority on knowledge transfer in the social economy. Its mission? To provide organizations with the tools they need to meet the different challenges facing our society while transforming their practices. Through a continuous process of innovation—whether it be food self-sufficiency, the...

INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath

Buro Happold

Buro Happold-Touching the Earth Lightly

Touching the Earth Lightly

WHO WE AREWith over 40 years’ experience, we have been involved in some of the most influential and innovative projects around the world. As a practice of engineers, consultants and advisers in all aspects of builtenvironments, we are inspired by how we can achieve better outcomes.Our global capability offers consultancy...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

QREDIBLE®

CULTIVATING TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY: HOW QREDIBLE® IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY

Qredible is a first-of-its-kind platform, leading the way in building trust and transparency in the cannabis, CBD, and hemp supply chains. The legalized cannabis industry can be a maze of false, misleading, outdated, or missing information. Qredible’s unique platform is revolutionizing the industry by connecting the entire CBD, hemp, and...

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