French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged €15B in new funding to boost the country’s green economy. The announcement on 29 June came a day after the Greens experienced strong success in local elections, taking control of major cities including Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg. Macron said he would speed up environmentally friendly policymaking and was open to calling a referendum next year on revising the constitution to include climate targets.
06.07.2020
This week sees the launch of NOTWICS Connecting People, a new video platform that will showcase interesting founders and businesses that are growing in these challenging environments. The founders will present their business via video so you can experience them at your own convenience wherever you are.
03.07.2020
With such an uncertain outlook, how can individuals and businesses prepare for the range of possible outcomes that could play out as we navigate through the crisis and enter into a post-pandemic era? Rohit Talwar, Futurist, Strategist and CEO of Fast Future shares his four scenarios.
02.07.2020
In 2019, about 200 new tech startups were created in Sheffield which makes it an attractive hub for any founders located in the Yorkshire region. Maddyness selected some of the tech startups to watch in Sheffield.
30.06.2020
Unilever's revised climate goals are the most ambitious of any consumer goods firms in relation to emissions reduction and include plans to put labels on each of its 70,000 products detailing how much greenhouse gas was emitted during their manufacture and shipping.
29.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
27.06.2020
IKEA and its research and design lab SPACE10 have launched a new online platform called "Everyday Experiments". With so much change happening around us, this latest project aims to challenge conventions and inspire action. But how can tomorrow’s technologies redefine the way we live at home?
24.06.2020
Based in London, Crikle launches its new sales consultation and conversion platform to rival Zoom, Join.me, and Teams, with a slicker UI delivered by a secure browser-based application.
23.06.2020
Maddyness spoke with Claire Barbaret and Clemence Cachet-Fournier from Inbound Capital about Arteia, a London-based platform redefining the art sector and addressed to art collectors, artists and art professionals with offices in London, Brussels, Krakow and Zug, Switzerland. They talk us through how the startup coped amid COVID-19 and what the future holds for the art sector.
23.06.2020
Founded by Charlotte McMillan, Storychest is a digital scrapbook app that allows people of all ages to record their unique and powerful personal stories by writing about what, is, and has, happened throughout their lives and their aspirations and dreams for the future.
20.06.2020
Experimentation and failure are not new concepts that are unique in startup culture, we spoke with Sheona Barlow of W. L. Gore & Associates (the makers of Gore-Tex) about how a deep-rooted focus on company culture and innovation can lead to generations of success.
18.06.2020
As COVID-19 continues to dominate the headlines, our Sandy Jayaraj takes the opportunity to look at how a change in consumer behaviour and a holistic view of wellbeing can have a wide-ranging benefit.
15.06.2020
WeWork has today launched an events programme in celebration of UK Refugee Week. Hosted online and designed in collaboration with partners, UK for UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) and TERN (The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network), WeWork’s Refugee Week Events Series will be available to both WeWork members and non-members, providing a platform for stories from refugees from around the world.
15.06.2020
Three Nobel Laureates, Olympians and Paralympians, economists and activists among 75 speakers who will offer thought-leadership on how to survive and thrive.
09.06.2020