By Marek Przytuła, marek.przytula@gmail.com
The second round of the competition was opened by Hans Hassle who won the Innovator’s Contest in Stockholm last year. His project of a revolutionary, multi-storey greenhouse was widely applauded by the public and since last Forum Plantagon the concept has developed significantly. The award helped the company promote the product and [...]
Author Archives: Globe Forum
Innovators’ Contest, Round 1, Part I
October 29, 2009 – 1:00 pm
By Marek Przytuła
During the Forum, an onstage innovators contest took place. In the first part of the first round of the contest five exciting innovative companies had the opportunity to present their sustainable innovations. The format of presentations was short, each one had 60 seconds for an “elevator pitch”.
Companies that entered this stage specialise in [...]
MolPort molecule search engine and marketplace
September 3, 2009 – 7:53 pm
By Janis Oslejs
MolPort, a privately held cheminformatics company, is to chemical molecules what Amazon marketplace is to books.
Approximately seven million unique research chemicals are sold worldwide by thousands of companies, many of them small labs. Finding if the molecule can be bought and who the seller is, let alone sourcing, is inefficient, time consuming and expensive. [...]
Rapid virus detection software from Vironova
May 28, 2009 – 9:53 am
-by Johan Inborr
Vironova AB is a privately held Swedish biotech company based in Stockholm, which develops and markets virus analysis products and services, based on its proprietary automated (computerized) image analysis platform. The technology offers faster and more objective virus detection and identification, which is of particular importance for both national and regional Centres of [...]
A New Paradigm for Global Sustainability
May 22, 2009 – 9:51 pm
We need to change. Everybody knows it. The deeper questions are how fundamental will the changes have to be? What does our future society look like, and what is the road to get there, for governments, corporations and citizens of the world?
June 4th at Globe Forum Stockholm: Connie Hedegaard, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark [...]
Risk to Opportunity: The Shift in Focus of Sustainability
May 20, 2009 – 10:18 am
-By Tim Jones, Speaking at Globe Forum
Ten years ago, sustainability, the management of the social, economic and environmental impact that business has on society, was a marginal issue on the radar of several select companies: Just a few enlightened energy multinationals, materials suppliers and consumer goods producers had sustainability on their “watch list”. Since then, [...]
Lean-carbon logistics as a strategic competitive edge in the future
May 11, 2009 – 9:42 pm
Frank Appel, CEO of Deutsche Post DHL, is “the man who moves the world.”
Five percent of world trade passes through the networks of Deutsche Post DHL. The Group is No.1 in nearly every business area of logistics. Each hour, 500,000 employees in more than 220 territories around the globe handle 1 million customer contacts. These [...]
Treehoo.com and forestation versus global warming
May 7, 2009 – 8:48 pm
Deforestation in the tropical regions of the world released 2.2 billion tons of carbon in 2007, at the same time forestation in the temperate regions absorbed 0.7 billion tons. Giving a balance of 1.5 billion tons of carbon released into the atmosphere due to this cause and contributing to global warming. This equals 15 % [...]
