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How To Grow Your Economy. Build It, Don’t Buy It!

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. The pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated the situation. All across the country, communities need to jump start and rebuild their economies. It’s time for a radical rethink in how we do economic development. Economies are hurting.

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Turning it Around through Green and Circular Innovation in Health

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. Despite the clear link between climate change and negative health outcomes, the health sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally.

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Circularity Tales: accelerating green impact in Barcelona

Impact Hub

Did you know that 100% of the sanitary waste discarded in hospitals and health centers ends up in landfills or incinerated? A great prize”, as he considers that being part of the community throughout the time he participated in the program has been key to the development of his project.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change.

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NJEDA Names Inaugural New Jersey Innovation Fellows Cohort

American Entrepreneurship

In future NJIF cohorts, the NJEDA will look forward to that might additionally include infant and maternal health care and clean energy. By granting the fellows the financial freedom to focus entirely on their businesses, NJIF is providing an opportunity to accelerate their success.”

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NJEDA Hosts Diversity Finance Advisory Board Meeting, Convening Diverse Group of Entrepreneurs and Investors

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2014 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the New Jersey Innovation Institute aims to accelerate the translation of technologies, foster innovation and upskilling the state’s workforce by being a conduit between NJIT and the outside world.

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No Better Future without Better Business

Impact Hub

This phenomenon is directly affecting people’s health, safety, housing and ability to grow food – and it is even more concerning when we observe it through intersectional lenses. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic not only exposed our social and economic systematic weaknesses but unleashed a human development crisis.