When Greg Mitchell was named Portland’s economic development director 12 years ago, the eastern waterfront was marked by a series of undeveloped, weed-strewn lots, Thompson’s Point was an industrial wasteland and the western waterfront was a barren stretch leading to the Old Port. And the collapse of the financial markets in 2008 threatened to keep
Tag: Change
Scott Heide, CEO and Founder of Engineering Intent, the world’s leading provider of enterprise engineering automation tools, was recently profiled in Forbes. Heide discussed how change resistance is hurting innovation as the demand for unique products and solutions has never been greater. Read the full article here. According to Heide, “The greatest opportunity for profitable
Founder and CEO of Engineering Intent Corp. (Medfield, Massachusets). getty The greatest opportunity for profitable innovation in the manufacturing sector exists in customizable, one-of-a-kind, engineered products. The demand for unique products and solutions has never been greater, and it is spreading across a wide swath of industries, from material handling to aerospace and from plant floor
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Economic models of climate change may have substantially underestimated the costs of continued warming, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. Published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the work by an international team of scientists found that the economic damage could be six times higher by the end