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You're presumably familiar with the concept of the startup, but have you heard about scale-ups? These are companies that have grown over the last three financial years at an annual rate above 20% in terms of number of employees or turnover and reaching this scale is the dream of any budding entrepreneur. Here we try to untangle the steps that need to be taken to take this great leap forward.
Drugs that are released into the bloodstream at the first sign of infection, buildings that react to weather conditions or mobile phone screens that repair themselves... These are just some of the possible applications of so-called smart materials, the latest revolution in the field of materials science.
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Nowadays, almost 18.8 billion connected devices share information over the Internet. According to PwC's Global Telecom Outlook 2023 to 2027 report, the total number of installed Internet of Things devices will rise from 16.4 billion in 2022 to 25.1 billion in 2027. Big data analyses this "sea of data" to convert it into the information that is transforming our world.
The Agile methodology is a working system that is changing the face of project development in many companies, including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. This new concept is triumphing the world over and is here to stay. What is the key to its success? It organises and shares work out among multidisciplinary teams in a fast and flexible manner. Read all about it.
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Clothing that adapts to weather conditions and to movement, prosthetics that adapt to growth and disintegrate when they are no longer necessary. These are just some of the present and future applications of 4D printing. This yet untapped technology will revolutionise the printing and manufacturing of objects over the next few years.
Biotechnology is not a new discipline, but it is advancing by leaps and bounds and it has more and more applications in our day-to-day lives: from pharmaceutical development to food production and the treatment of polluting waste. We explore this exciting field below and try to determine how far it might go in the future.
