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Boeing T-X: The Future of Pilot Training

September 21, 2016

The Boeing T-X aircraft has one engine, twin tails, stadium seating and an advanced cockpit with embedded training. The system also offers state-of-the-art ground-based training and a maintenance-friendly design for long-term supportability. This animation depicts two Boeing T-X aircraft in action. Boeing unveiled not one, but two production T-X aircraft in St. Louis. Boeings design… » read more

  Posted by The Aviation Blog

Aviation, blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise, Research & Innovation, Transport

From 30 hours to 30 seconds

September 14, 2016

Here’s a time-lapse view of the world’s “Largest solid 3-D printed item” being made. Boeing and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory created the object, which measures 5.3 metres long, 1.7 metres wide and half a metre tall. The component, a wing trim and drill tool that Boeing will use to build… » read more

  Posted by The Aviation Blog

Aviation, blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise, Research & Innovation, Transport

Recognising and Eradicating False Self-Employment in Europe

September 5, 2016

What is the Problem? The issue of false (also called bogus) self-employment has jumped in the forefront of debate among European policy makers, and is included as a priority of the new EU Platform to Tackle Undeclared Work. Concerns have emerged about the potential exploitation of low-paid, low-skilled vulnerable self-employed workers, mostly those operating in… » read more

  Posted by Solo-Entrepreneurship in Europe

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Social Europe & Jobs

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Boosting Skills for Freelancers

August 22, 2016

Freelancers’ Need for Training Unlike entrepreneurs who reply on a big idea, perhaps one that will change the world, freelancers’ primary value rests on their skills. Clients hire them for their skill-set, and it is their task to deliver an assignment based on their talent. Freelance professionals provide specialist expertise to fill widening skills gaps… » read more

  Posted by Solo-Entrepreneurship in Europe

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Social Europe & Jobs

Successfully launching a new product

July 29, 2016

SSIX Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining platform intends to monitor specific topics that are discussed in texts from several sources, including social networks, which are rich repositories of people’s opinions. While the technology that is currently being developed is open and flexible to application to various domains (i.e. politics, sport, etc.), the data filtering component… » read more

  Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

Growth through digitization: 2 roads for the companies and 3 for the regions

July 19, 2016

There are two main roads that companies can take if they want to use digitization to create growth: the reactive and proactive road – with the strongest growth potential in the latter. In the regional growth effort we point to three instruments that can help companies achieve their digital growth potential. This is a repost… » read more

  Posted by Europe in My Region

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Regional Policy

What Infrastructures Freelancers Need

July 11, 2016

Infrastructures: The Stepping Stone to Collaboration Self-employed professionals and freelancers naturally take a collaborative approach to building their businesses. Over 9 out of 10 have interacted with other freelancers, citing factors like business advice, networking, and emotional support among the reasons they connect with others in the community. However, without physical infrastructures such as coworking… » read more

  Posted by Solo-Entrepreneurship in Europe

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Social Europe & Jobs

GeoPolicy: 8 science-based projects improving regions in the EU

As scientists, it can sometimes be difficult to see the real-world implications of some of our research. Concepts can often seem abstract and remote when sitting in a lab or taking field measurements. But researching the Earth sciences can have profound effects on global society. This is a repost of GeoPolicy: 8 science-based projects improving… » read more

  Posted by Europe in My Region

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, Innovation & Enterprise, Regional Policy, Science & Policymaking

Industry strengthens its fight against counterfeiting

July 6, 2016

Counterfeiting is bad news for everyone, bar fraudsters. Consumers are exposed to inferior or dangerous products, brands lose their value and online platforms like Allegro risk their reputation as trustworthy marketplaces. Although legal instruments to prevent IPR infringements, such as the IPR Enforcement and E-Commerce Directives, exist at EU/national level, they can be complemented by… » read more

  Posted by The eCommerce Blog - by Allegro Group

blogactiv, Competition, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Trade & Industry

Europe supports 17 innovative projects in my region

June 30, 2016

Europe’s not far away, somewhere in Brussels, but very near! Just consider: the European Union supports a remarkable number of projects at Brightlands Chemelot Campus, in the heart of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. This is a repost of Europe supports 17 innovative projects in my region, originally published by Klaas Bos (@Klaas_Bos, Google+) and submitted to… » read more

  Posted by Europe in My Region

blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise, Regional Policy

Brexit Twitter sentiment analyses – #Remain side ahead

June 24, 2016

23/06/16 09:00 – 14:00 CET   The average Brexit opinion remains stable on the ‘Remain’ side, as identified during the last days. The volume of the ‘Remain’ tweets is slightly bigger than ‘Leave’. Per minute there are more tweets for ‘Remain’ than for ‘Leave’. Volatility of the signal remains low and stable.   The vote… » read more

  Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

#Leave campaign gains, #Remain still on course to victory

June 23, 2016

A slight weakening in the ‘Remain’ side can be noticed. ‘Remain’ opinion is still within the positive range, showing small volatility but a slightly downward trend, while ‘Leave’ opinion is gaining some momentum. Overall the monitoring performed shows us a side-ways/ horizontal ‘Remain’ trend as preference of Twitter users. Percentage share of Tweets: 59.9% ‘Remain’… » read more

  Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, Innovation & Enterprise
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