The index looked at several metrics, such as: the environment for innovation, education policies, and labor policies. South Korea tops the list followed by Germany, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Estonia, France, the UK and the U.S. It’s interesting to note the wide variety of readiness (with supporting workforce talent, innovative institutions, etc.) MORE

Australia might be a small piece of the global meat puzzle, with Japan, the United States, South Korea and of course, China being the key export markets. MORE

Alibaba’s logistics arm works on driverless technology as automation pace picks up (South China Morning Post). It seeks to prohibit UPS from using drones, driverless vehicles and other new technology to transport, deliver or pick up packages, innovations that would curb demand for labor. MORE

Participants also attended the Innovation Showcase in Nelson Hall,, featuring two winning supply chain teams in the undergraduate and graduate divisions! Following this session, we all proceeded to Nelson Hall, to participate in the Innovation Showcase. MORE

Several Hanjin ships have been seized by creditors or barred from shipping cargo from Busan, South Korea’s main port, and vessels have been turned away from ports in the U.S., MORE

dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in the six years the gauge has been compiled. South Korea and Sweden retained their No. I see no evidence to suggest that this trend will not continue,” said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C. The U.S. MORE

Parbat reports, “Globally, US carriers Verizon and AT&T are poised to start the first wave of commercial 5G launches this year, which, in turn, will be followed by operators in Japan and South Korea in 2019. ” Tom Wheeler ( @tewheels ), a Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation, reports, “The Wireless Industry Association warns the U.S. is in third place behind China and South Korea when it comes to 5G.”[6] MORE

We will have offices in Japan, South Korea, India and South America, and more. More innovation, more growth, more reach, more potential. At Quintiq, news is often greeted with excitement. That’s because it is usually great news. MORE

Fostering innovation through employee engagement. Ana Dzura of Unilever talked about how her organization established a “Digifund” to drive innovation at the grassroots level. by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain insights from leading industry experts. MORE

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the details of innovative shopping technologies you might have heard of, but might not fully understand, so you can grasp the benefits these technologies could bring you in terms of new shopping and buying experiences. Mobile purchases account for more than half of all online purchases on China, Japan and South Korea today, and are forecast to approach 40 percent of purchases in Europe in the next three years. MORE

Indeed, the entity has already signed an agreement with South Korea’s Daegu-Gyeongbuk Free Economic Zone Authority (DGFEZA) to increase collaboration particularly in the areas of information technology, innovation, cross-border e-commerce, shipping and logistics. The potential for e-commerce in the Middle East has been written on for a number of years. MORE

Lenae Shirley, Senior Director of Technology Innovation and Market Adaptation with the Environmental Defense Fund, called the tariff an “assault on clean energy and a tax on American families, businesses, and utilities who want to go solar.”. Both China and South Korea have criticized Trump’s decision, and have suggested that they might petition the World Trade Organization to rescind or mitigate the tariffs. MORE

But now the government is trying to change that without damaging the economy — and perhaps even use its green policies to become a leader in technological innovation. It can stretch from Mongolia to the Yellow Sea and often as far as South Korea. Four decades of breakneck economic growth turned China into the world’s biggest carbon emitter. MORE