innovation center
Establishing a vibrant environment to grow innovation
By 2021, spending on smart city technology is expected to reach $135 billion. But a truly ‘smart’ city needs more than connected street signs, self-driving cars, smart parking meters and hyperloops to thrive. Although such technologies promise to streamline transportation, enhance public safety and…
Turning on the Smart Lights of Innovation
At the Cisco Toronto Innovation Center, we’re always looking to the future, including how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming virtually every industry. We see this firsthand as our Center provides a “home” for Cisco Canada to partner with customers, academia, and start-ups. Together, teams…
IDEALondon “Scales Up”
Cisco’s U.K. Innovation Center, IDEALondon, had a lot to celebrate earlier this month, with holiday festivities, a celebration of its fourth birthday, and the launch of a new report on the United Kingdom’s “scale-up” ecosystem. Scale-ups are companies that have grown beyond the initial startup stage…
Innovation Portfolio Management: Doing the Right Things
Doing things right is arguably one of the key skills to develop innovative initiatives. Given the complex and risky nature of these projects, their execution is a mix of art and science. However, as challenging as it may be for companies and institutions to plan an innovative project, doing it right…
Raising a Glass to New Partnerships at the IDEALondon Summer Party
IDEALondon was thrilled to welcome new Innovation partner, EDF Energy to our partnership. Innovation does not happen in a vacuum: together with University College London, EDF Energy and our cohort of start-up companies, Cisco teams up, disrupts, innovates and continues to pave the way in Country Di…
Toronto Innovation Centre: An Insider’s View of Innovation
When you run an Innovation Centre, people often turn to you for clarity on what innovation means—or should mean—to their business. Problem is, innovation can be a vague term. Worse, innovation is often an overused, overstated, and an under-delivered concept. Do you need to create massive business t…
Students Collaborate Using Cisco Spark During Hackathon
Our Innovation Centre in Australia, Perth, recently had the opportunity to host a hackathon, exploring safety and productivity solutions for heavy vehicles. Launched in December by the state’s Transport and Innovation Minister, Bill Marmion, the hackathon was held as part of the government’s commitm…
Giving the ‘Greenlight for Girls’ to Pursue STEM Careers in Barcelona, Spain
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” – Helen Keller Almost five months of planning and organizing with our Cisco Greenlight for Girls (g4g) Barcelona project team (Mayte Cubino Gonzalez, Maite Cadenas Sanchez & Esther Roure Vila) came to a successful end on Saturday, May 7 at…
Cisco, the New (Old) Innovator
Every day, entrepreneurs launch startup companies to create apps, services, products, you name it! But often these self-starters have limited resources, small staffs and thus encounter other challenges that every new company faces. So what’s the key to any successful startup? Innovation. By finding…