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How do you find your next big thing? Look for anything but. The SmartUp Innovation Hub was exactly that for us, not our main focus but a side hustle, a passion project we nurtured and grew over the years. Our…
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Meet Pedro Santa Clara, the extraordinary Lisbon fundraiser and visionary behind the ultramodern seaside Nova campus in Carcavelos and the transformative tuition-free coding school 42 in Lisbon’s historical center. Pedro is cooking up other innovative ventures too – infusing Portuguese…
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Farms are notoriously inefficient. Missed production targets, painful labor shortages, clumsy manual control checks – these all pile up the cost and waste. Shamefully carbon-heavy agriculture is responsible for 11% of greenhouse gases worldwide. There’s a better path, and that’s…
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If robots are coming to take our jobs, let’s give them a really dangerous one: window washing. The skyscape above us in major cities is the new workplace for Ozmo, the window washing robot debuted last year by Skyline Robotics….
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