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Snails offer path to the perfect glue

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At our small fruit garden at the back of our house in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, snails are a menace, eating young papaya leaves through the night. These slow-moving snails can be found in the morning before they manage to hide under the stones and small logs or run across my neighbour’s fence. We will […]

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US-China Trade War Affects Materials for New Energy Technologies

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New energy technologies require mineral resources such as copper, cobalt and lithium. A shift in the global energy system from fossil fuels- driven by cost reductions that are making new technologies  are increasingly competitive and by government policies to fight global warming and local pollution-is expected to result in steep increases in demand for some […]

Economic Matters for Innovators

States Creates Useful Money

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We have created a new category, Economic Matters, which features economic topics which would be useful to innovators in understanding how economies work. Today, we highlighted the article written by Martin Wolf, a well-known economist of Financial Times, on 29th, May, 2019. According to Martin Wolf, the state is the most important of all our […]