🌍 What drives sustainable innovation in the Middle East?

New ASO study explores how digital literacy and entrepreneurial networks shape innovation in high-uncertainty entrepreneurial ecosystems.

👉 Investing in digital skills is not sufficient by itself. Sustainable innovation depends on how those skills are embedded in entrepreneurial networks that facilitate collaboration and learning.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stae.2026.100129

#Entrepreneurship #SustainableInnovation #ASO_URV #URV #InnovationEcosystems

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🇧🇧 Bridgetown has deployed its “Caribbean Pulse” —a 850 kW kinetic footstep energy harvesting system integrated across 2.3 km of downtown pedestrian zones and the historic Garrison district ☀️👟⚡️🔋

Every step through the city’s busiest corridors now generates electricity through piezoelectric tiles embedded beneath the pavement. The system captures kinetic energy from an estimated 45,000 daily foot-traffic interactions, converting each footfall into micro-currents that feed into the island’s grid. During peak tourism seasons, the network produces enough clean energy to power 340 homes, while simultaneously reducing strain on Barbados’ diesel-dependent infrastructure by 22%, making Bridgetown the world’s first Caribbean capital to weaponize pedestrian movement as primary renewable infrastructure!

The initiative eliminated 410 tons of annual CO2 emissions while creating a sustainable revenue model that funds public space maintenance and urban renewal projects across three parishes.

每一步都是一首能量的诗歌，岛屿用脚下的节奏编织光明的未来。

🇧🇧 Bridgetown yapan bawon energi ak teknoloji, chanpèl soti nan mache a sila te tounen yon sous ki ba lavi ekosistèm dijital yo.

Bridgetown is proving that island communities don’t need to choose between tradition and innovation—they can dance toward both! 👟💚

#Bridgetown #Barbados #KineticEnergy #CaribbeanPulse #SustainableInnovation #PiezoelectricPower #IslandTech

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

https://magicalmushroom.com/index

#HackerNews #MagicalMushroom #Mycelium #Packaging #SustainableInnovation #EcoFriendly #Europe

Our researchers, in collaboration with Empa and CSEM, have developed a sustainable smart sensing tag that can be used to signal when shipments of medicines or food have exceeded a safe threshold temperature. It is the first such tag to be fully compostable.

https://go.epfl.ch/8d3a56

#EPFL #Biodegradable #SustainableInnovation

Show that you do more than business: position yourself as a sustainability leader.

Being featured on BC1.nl shows that you’re not only commercially driven but also socially engaged.

This positions you as a sustainability frontrunner in your field.

📽️ With a strong, authentic story
🌍 Accessible to an international audience
🔄 Permanently discoverable

👉 See how this strengthens your reputation: https://www.bc1.nl/informatie/

#ThoughtLeadership #BrandTrust #SustainableInnovation

15+ hours of open source and unbiased research into the most sustainable waterless urinals and urinal accessories.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/most-sustainable-urinals/

#OpenSourceFuture #FreeSharing #KnowledgeForAll #OpenLicensing #SustainableInnovation #CollaborativeSolutions #GlobalSharing #DigitalCommons #OpenSourceMovement #FutureOfSustainability

Check out these open source, handmade pedal powered appliances of all kinds that assist with a variety of jobs in the home, on the farm, on the road and in small businesses.

http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.en

#SustainableInnovation #PedalPower #EcoTechnology #RenewableEnergy #DIYProjects #SustainableLiving #EcoFriendlyDesign #CleanEnergy #LowCarbonLiving #OneCommunityGlobal

Our #university launched the TUM #PublicScience Lab — a new platform where science engages with society. The lab brings together diverse perspectives to address major #societalchallenges and promote #sustainableinnovation: http://go.tum.de/583509

#publicengagement

📷A.Heddergott